Archive: March, 2009
Customer Satisfaction and Customer Expectations in CEP
I often wonder why there is tension in the world of CEP about the complexity of the events and the required processing to identify complex events. Then, about a month ago, I was helping a friend with her masters degree thesis. She is about to graduate with her masters degree in international business and is [...]
Read moreTrend Prediction in Network Monitoring Systems
Following up on Real-Time Predictive Analytics for Web Servers I thought we should “move up a level” and look at various open network monitoring platforms with trend prediction capabilities. Our web server management team picked Zabbix to monitor a busy production server and then we started to look into adding predictive analytics afterwards. Alberto recommended [...]
Read moreReal-Time Predictive Analytics for Web Servers
We recently made the decision to move to Zabbix to monitor one of our busy production Apache web servers. One of the things we need to do in the future is try to predict system outages and take corrective actions before the system actually goes down. For example, recently a busy server experenced an outage [...]
Read moreSakura-Iro ni Somaru Tomoko
Adding beauty and color to the blog, here is a video I made, Sakura-Iro ni Somaru Tomoko. “Sakura-Iro ni Somaru Tomoko” translates from Japanese, literally, to “Tomoko Who is Dyed Pink“, or more a more poetic translation, “Tomoko Covered in Pink Flowers.” This video is from Hanami 2007, the amazingly beautiful Japanese celebration of viewing [...]
Read morePeter Lin on Situational Awareness and CEP
Recently Peter Lin was kind enough to stop by and post this comment to our post, CEP Software Saves the Universe! Here’s my [Peter Lin's] bias perspective as a user and developer of expert system shell[s]. A business rule engine, expert system shell or CEP engine at best provide[s] a foundation for creating an expert [...]
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