Downtime
Downtime is the time when the computer system isn't operational. System downtime is “system unavailability” meaning even though an application may be operating, it is essentially “down” to a user if the application can’t be used.Article: A Configuration Change Takes Down Facebook for Almost 3 Hours
Facebook had almost 3 hours of downtime last week following a small configuration change, in now what is being called the worst outage for the site in four years.
Article: Automated Application Deployment Is Not Enough! 3 Reasons Why You Absolutely Still Need To Validate Your Releases
Despite the widespread use of deployment automation software today, change and release validation plays a critical role in maintaining optimum availability and performance, preventing harmful downtime.
Article: Changes, Incidents and Unintended Consequences Index
Get a feel for how unplanned changes in your organization lead to incidents that have a serious impact on the performance of your IT environment.
Article: Complexity isn’t simple: multiple causes of IT failure
Peter Kretzman explores the price of IT complexity, seeing how IT failures are costing the world incredible amounts of real money.
Article: Costs and Scope of Unplanned Outages
Despite advances in infrastructure robustness, occasional hardware, software and database downtime still occurs. We know that outages are big, but how big is the cost of unplanned IT outages?
Article: I Want Advanced Notice of Any Unplanned Outages!
Is wanting to know about unplanned outages ahead of time demanding the impossible? Not at all! There are innovative ways of taking on the unknown and managing unplanned IT outages.
Article: IT Departments Cite Current Configuration Management as Ineffective for Running the Modern Data Center and Cloud
Nearly 70% of a recently surveyed audience of IT professionals cited that their current configuration management approach is inadequate for meeting the needs of today's ever changing IT operations.
Article: Notes From The Trenches: Obstacles and Challenges To IT Environment Stability
Are you working in the IT trenches? Do release transitions and incidents impact your environment? Hear about the real challenges encountered by a Test Environment Manager.
Article: The IT Operations Hangover
Hey there's a tiger in the bathroom! Having all kinds of unexpected surprises in your data center? Maybe the quantity and speed of changes are getting out of hand, and you are feeling like you are having an IT Operations hangover.
Article: When Your IT Environment Goes Down: Do you know what changed?
What’s the first question you ask when an incident occurs in your IT environment?Watch this funny video and learn about the Evolven difference
