Tag Archives: Metrics

One way, or another....

  There is a known pyramid based model that attempts to describe the relationship between Data – Information – Knowledge – Wisdom.  I have reproduced the pyramid below.   Convention suggestions that one starts with Data, lots of it.  You … Continue reading

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Should you turn a Blind Eye to known activity?

The concept of a RAG status when monitoring systems and performance is well understood. As the analyst responsible for the system, you set a threshold against a performance metric; be it CPU utilisation, memory, file system, or anything else that … Continue reading

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Can Tools ever replace Analysts?

Over the years, the quality of tools available to the Capacity Manager have improved immensely. Little's Law may have been written before the advent of mass computing, but its application is crucial to predicting computing capacity. One of the earlier … Continue reading

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