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Task based cloud management overview

IT admins tend to be project and task focused, often judged the project success as well as the number of tasks they can complete in a given time period. The problem is that it is often the one off firefighting tasks consume the majority admins time, leaving little to no time, and keeping them from moving their projects forward.  Admins need a better / faster way to process and prioritize what needs to be done, shortening the time consumed by firefighting, allowing more time to work on the projects that meet the needs of the business.

Speech interface for cloud management

IT professionals think in business needs, goals, requirements, and questions they want answered. They want to state this in their own language and get a response back from the system in language they can understand.

IT management systems work contrary to what users want. They don't understand users needs and can not understand the questions the user wants answered. Due to this lack of knowledge they present every control and all of the data, requiring the user to do all of the heavy lifting.

Calendar based datacenter monitoring

Troubleshooting starts asking one question and continues until all are answered
 
Who is in trouble
Dashboards, environment, scoreboard answer this question
What is wrong
Details, all metrics try to answer this question
Why did it go wrong
Events tries to answer this question but falls short
How did it happen
Events tries to answer this question but falls short. Logs to hard to weed through to answer this question easily
When did the problem happen
No good answer to this today 

Event details contains snapshot of relevant details
Trend graphs for each type of workload showing the trend for duration of event
Trend graph of anomalies for the duration of the event
List of faults just before and during the event
List of log entries for the object starting just before the event and just before the end of the event.
Is it reoccurring?
Who else is involved



Looking forward on my calendar I ask

Is something coming up?
How long will it last
Who is involved
How often will it happen

When is a good time for a project?
Are others involved free