Your IT is Broken

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick),

Right this minute your data center(s) are broken. You, monitoring systems or NOC may or may not know it. All of the blinky lights may be green, all systems reporting normal, but the data center is broken, and it’s costing you money and business agility…

Full article at: http://www.networkcomputing.com/data-center/232602496

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