{"id":596,"date":"2007-01-25T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/01\/25\/5-tips-for-systems-management-20-folks\/"},"modified":"2007-01-25T13:08:15","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T19:08:15","slug":"5-tips-for-systems-management-20-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/01\/25\/5-tips-for-systems-management-20-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Tips for Systems Management 2.0 Folks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was testing out Zoho Writer<\/a> and export this morning and needed some content to play around with. I came up with some quick advice for Systems Management 2.0<\/a> companies, projects, and people. I think it make a nice, short post:<\/p>\n

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  1. Focus and sell. Best of breed and reliance on commodified low-level monitoring and management. Hosted. Sell your strengths (duh, right?).<\/li>\n
  2. Use the web as (cheap) marketing. You can talk directly to your users. They have problems and<\/i> credit cards<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. Partner to make a suite. For example, help desks<\/a>, provisioning, and virtualization.<\/li>\n
  4. Know how to talk about scaling, plan to actually do scaling.<\/li>\n
  5. Try to make an open platform<\/a>. REST over SOAP if possible. Dashboards? RSS\/ATOM<\/a> and JavaScript Includes<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  6. Bonus! Have a realistic story about The Big 4: complexity can be a strength if understood, used well, and\/or hidden. Cars are better than horses.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    On the topic at hand, I’m flattered that Mark<\/a> (right?<\/a>) picked up<\/a> on and made a wikipedia entry on “The Little 4”<\/a> ;>.<\/p>\n

    Disclaimer:<\/b> Zenoss<\/a>, where Mark works is a client.<\/p>\n

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    Technorati Tags: redmonkadvice<\/a>, zenoss<\/a>, little4<\/a>, open<\/a>, platform<\/a>, openplatform<\/a>, webservices<\/a>, suite<\/a>, dashboards<\/a>, partnering<\/a><\/p>\n

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    5 (plus a bonus!) tips for people doing systems management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-open-source","category-systems-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}