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Getting to the “Stuff” You need When You Need It
By Rob Reyes at 3/23/2012 5:33 PM
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I have the pleasure of talking for a living. I get to talk to IT Analysts, Managers, Directors, CIOs, and the occasional CFO. The conversation generally centers on finding “stuff” (data) in System Center, and then turning it into something that is meaningful.
 
The great thing about each conversation is ‘meaningful’ means many things. Meaningful is information about:
 
•  Performance, Disk space, CPU
•  Application use, Governance, Compliance
•  SLA attainment
•  Cloud – Private and Public
•  Who, Why, How
•  .. and more .. and more ..
 
I have found consistent issues with conversations about meaningful “stuff.” Everybody wants it, but few have actually budgeted, or planned for how they are going to get it.  They also may not know how to measure the cost they are incurring by dredging for this “stuff” using traditional brute force methods.
 
These are not new issues by any means, and should not surprise any of you.
 
So, why do these issues exist at all?
 
They exist because we – the collective we – believe that our systems management tools will be intuitively friendly; because the industry has matured during these past 25 years; because the “stuff” should just be there right on the screen in front us. Unfortunately, that’s just not how it is.
 
With IT tied to the financial and business goals of most organizations, planning for how you will get to the “stuff” – as well as what that the “stuff” is – is critical. That means stepping back and adding an extra step in your migration/implementation plan. You need to evaluate what is important to measure, how easy or hard is it to get at that data, who needs to see it, and then how you want to make that data meaningful and present it to the various roles in your organization. By adding that step to your plan you will be able to determine what tools you need, what to plan for in anticipated cost, who is going to own it, and when implementing that tool makes the most sense.
As Vice President of Sales, Doland leads the Bay Dynamics sales teams. With a career spanning 25 years in sales and services, Doland is a student of building lasting professional relationships through selling.
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Tips and Tricks - Validating Your System Center 2012 Migration
By Rob Reyes at 3/23/2012 5:26 PM
Filed Under: IT Analytics, SCOM 2012, System Center

New product releases are an exciting time!  New features, functionality, integration and so on.  However, there are those “practical” considerations we have to take in to account: new hardware, architecture, migration processes, software compatibility, data integrity, etc.  Once this migration is complete, how does one know the migration is done?

 

Unless the migration plan is a “Rip and Replace,” the System Center 2012 database/data warehouse will gather data during the transition from System Center 2007.  By using IT Analytics, Administrators, Management and Executives can quickly build granular views and high level dashboards for deep insight to the environment and migration state.

 

IT Analytics is designed to provide you with the ability to report on your System Center 2007 and 2012 environments – side by side – while you migrate!  To do this in IT Analytics, you would create two data connections: one pointing to the 2007 instance and another pointing to the 2012 instance.  Once the data from both sources are processed, the data can be viewed and “split” according to the source server.  Once your migration is complete, you simply “turn off” the connection to 2007 instance. 

 

This ability to quickly view data from two System Center data sources - in one place - helps to ensure a smooth and successful migration to System Center 2012.



Rob has over 11 years of experience in software implementation and sales. Since joining Bay Dynamics in 2003, Rob has held a number of technical, sales, and sales engineering positions that have made him a valuable asset to the organization. He continues to assist clients in effectively optimizing both their physical and virtual infrastructure through the use of IT Analytics.
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