System Administration Fact 5: They’re mostly entry level

System Administration Fact 5: They're mostly entry level System Administration is typically an entry level position. Don’t get me wrong, there are people who have made a nice career of being a SysAdmin. But not by staying in the role that teaches them [...]

System Administrator Fact 6: They Get the Itch

System Administrator Fact 6: They Get the Itch Average System Administrator tenure is about seven years. Aaah, the seven-year itch! The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BOLS) parks the midpoint for “longevity in a System Administration career” at somewhere between five and nine years. [...]

System Administrator, Fact 7: They’re expensive

System Administrator, Fact 7: They're expensive According to the BOLS data, average annual salary for a “Network and Computer System Administrator” (job code 15-1142) is upwards of $80K (this is a National average, mind you. Local salaries may differ based on a particular [...]

Reusable Thinking: Windchill Garbage Management

Reusable Thinking: Windchill Garbage Management What is "Windchill Garbage Management"? Recently I came across an interesting article on the memory tuning of enterprise applications in general.  Ram’s primary focus is on Latency, Throughput, and Footprint as key performance indicators (KPIs) that can tell you how [...]

The Flip-side of Moore’s Law

The Flip-side of Moore's Law If you’re noticing that your Enterprise System and Business Administration capabilities are literally dis-integrating [sic], there’s a reason for that.  With every advance in computing power, greater sophistication and specialization is required to manage the inputs [...]

Application Performance Management – Taking out the garbage.

Application Performance Management - Taking out the garbage Application Performance Management is like taking out the garbage. Actually, it’s more like my son taking out the garbage: It’s his chore; he knows it’s full, he can see that it’s full, he waits anyway, [...]

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