Data Center Automation

Network World: Database administrators in high demand

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Matt Zito was quoted in this week’s IT Careers and Training Alert by Jon Brodkin.
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Boring Jobs Dull the Mind (and Insight Failures)

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Here is an interesting article:
BBC News: Dull jobs really do numb the mind
New research shows that people who are asked to perform repetitive tasks eventually go into “autopilot” mode in order to economize the work required to complete a task. I know this is true for me - ask me to create 20 databases and […]

Only 10% of Oracle Databases are Secure!

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

A recent article in eWEEK revealed alarming statistics surrounding patch and CPU application. The survey was conducted by a company that appears to benefit from the patch application process being as painful as possible (they sell a solution that attempts to mitigate security risks surrounding non-patched databases). Back to the survey, here are a few […]

Clarity 4.5 is here.

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

GridApp Clarity 4.5 was formally announced on March 3rd. Here are some links to our recent media coverage:
TechNewsWorld
“‘There are a lot of companies out there focusing on different aspects of data management, but GridApp is really the only one in the last six or 12 months that has realized there’s a lot of work that […]

Adventures in Data Center Automation

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Ryan Shopp authors the blog, “Adventures in Data Center Automation,” on the IT Knowledge Exchange. Ryan has over 15 years of IT Infrastructure management experience and shares his views on data center automation in his blog. Click the link below to see his mention of GridApp:
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/data-center-automation/digging-into-the-
dcab-6s-functional-areas-process-orchestration/