Tara Spalding of GWOS gives Lightning Talks at OpsCamp, San Francisco

1. “ The move to centralized compu4ng is a return of
how things used to be when the thing on your desk
was just a dumb terminal”
- Daniel Lyons, Newsweek
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2. Analyzing ½ Million Checks Define IT Administration Prerogative
End-user Services & Synthetic Transactions
(e.g. Your on-line store, Browser Tests)
12%
Application Monitoring
(e.g. tomcat, Windows, Oracle)
15%
Stack Monitoring
(e.g. database, OS, Middleware, 14%
configuration)
Hardware Performance
(e.g. Disk, logs, temp)
53%
Physical Device Monitoring
(e.g. routers, environmental, fans, electricity)
6%
Effective Monitoring and Operations
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3. Categorical Software Ranking
Software Monitored Main availability and
performance interest is the
Mobile Device
& telephony ability to communicate
2% Email &
Network/ DNS
messaging
10%
23%
Storage Infrastructure, platform and data
7% management significant part of
monitoring
Physical or
Virtual
Platform Emerging trends, mobile and
10% telephony tracking such as
Nortel, Blackberry
Database
Middleware 18%
13%
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17%

4. And the Winner is….
Rank App Name
1 Windows
2 MySQL
3 VMWare
4 Oracle
5 Cisco
6 MS SQL
7 MS IIS
8 MS Exchange
9 Directory (LDP)
10 Tomcat
11 Jboss
12 Sage
13 McAfee
14 Apache
15 Squid
16 VPN
17 BlackBerry
18 Hadoop
19 Sybase
20 DB2
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5. Comprehensive Coverage Simplifies, Analyzes and Reports
End-user Services
(e.g. Your on-line store)
Synthetic Transactions
(e.g. Browser tests)
Application Monitoring
(e.g. Apache, tomcat, Oracle)
 Gain rapid, precise insight into status and
Automated Configuration performance
(e.g. Puppet, Chef, Rightscale)
 Minimizes cost and complexity
Cloud Infrastructure  Accurate correlation of complex behavior
(e.g. Amazon, Eucalyptus,
GoGrid) alerts
– Reduces false alerts and reactive IT mentality
Effective Monitoring and Operations
 Automation capability prevents tampering
and mis-configuration
 Logic workflow recognizes faults before
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