Iris Zarecki

Most of you have probably read Stephen Covey’s top-seller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. But how do these principles apply to the specific challenges IT executives face today? Read my variations on the original habits.

Analyzing and solving past events is obviously important, but not enough in today’s fast moving IT environment. Being able to predict how changes in your current state would impact the future in terms of operational stability and availability becomes even more critical. Are you concentrated on solving yesterday’s problems?

In the days of Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), offering 99.999% reliability was a common thing by the phone company. But do you think that “five nines” availability is still a realistic expectation in today’s environment?

Yesterday, United Airlines, the NY Stock Exchange, and the Wall Street Journal experienced outages that were very public, prolonged, and painful. So what should United, NYSE, WSJ do next? Even more importantly, what should you do?

According to survey, over half of the companies had an outage in the past 3 months. Can you guess when your next outage will be? Here are four things you should do in order to avoid the next outage.

Check out this Infographic and learn how IT professionals turn to IT Operations Analytics solutions to help them track performance, improve operational efficiency, and prevent service disruptions.

Whether you are using vCenter, external tools or both, managing a flawless VMware virtual environment is a tough mission. Here are 3 common issues you would want to avoid in order to protect your data and service availability.

Based on the results of our latest ITOA survey, this post brings you the important insights of how other IT executives measure KPIs and how they use IT opreations analytics solutions in order to meet goals.

Analytics solutions apply different approaches for solving different needs in IT operations. Read through to learn what IT Operations Analytics can do and how to choose the right solution.

AvailabilityGuard 6.4 provides even better outage prevention capabilities, especially across the VMware-based private Cloud environment. Learn how the expanded capabilities help detect risks in related technologies such as EMC VPLEX, VCE Vbloc, and Zerto.