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System Administration Fact 2: It’s the Data, Stupid.
System Administration Fact 2: It's the Data, Stupid. System Administration is important. Data and Information Security, System Uptime, Throughput, Configuration, and Processing Capability, all are the primary responsibilities of the System Administrator. They [...]
System Administration Fact 3: They have special capabilities
System Administration Fact 3: They have special capabilities Your System Administration capabilities are specialized. But not necessarily in a good way. Five things cause this: System Administration Fact 4, Fact 5, Fact 6, [...]
System Administrator Fact 4: They’re hard to find
System Administrator Fact 4: They're hard to find A Good System Administrator is hard to find. As a result, most publications have the average unemployment rate for the System Administrator sector hovering somewhere [...]
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. [...]
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 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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]