Capacity Planning
Private Cloud and Data Center Services
Private infrastructure is frequently described as the thing organizations are leaving. In practice a large number of them are not, and a meaningful number are selectively coming back for workloads where the economics or ...
Infrastructure Monitoring and Management
Most organizations have monitoring. Rather fewer have monitoring that would tell them, promptly and to the right person, that something a user cares about has stopped working. The gap between those two states is not usua...
Server and Operating System Management
Operating system management is the work nobody puts on a roadmap. It produces no new capability, it is invisible when it goes well, and every individual deferral is defensible. It is also the discipline whose absence is ...
High Availability and Load Balancing
Redundancy is a property of a design. Availability is what a visitor experiences. The layer that converts one into the other is the load balancer, and most availability failures in otherwise well-designed estates happen ...
Designing Infrastructure for High Availability
Availability is designed before it is operated. The mechanics of distributing traffic and removing failed components are covered in High Availability and Load Balancing; this page is about the decisions made earlier, whi...
Cloud Cost Optimization and FinOps
Cloud bills grow because cloud makes provisioning easy and de-provisioning optional. Nothing forces the conversation that a purchase order used to force, so capacity accumulates quietly and the total becomes a surprise s...
GPU Infrastructure for Enterprise AI
An organization that has decided to run models itself now owns an unfamiliar class of infrastructure. Accelerators behave differently from the servers around them in ways that matter operationally, and most of the surpri...
AI Infrastructure Capacity Planning
Capacity planning for AI has an unusually high ratio of confident numbers to defensible ones. The reason is that the familiar unit, requests per second, does not describe the workload, and everything built on top of it i...