The Limoncelli Test: 32 Questions for Your Sysadmin Team

Just in time for Sysadmin Appreciation Week...

People often ask me how they can improve their sysadmin team. It takes only a brief discussion to find fundamental gaps that, when filled, will improve the teams's productivity and the quality of the service being provided.

To help you find these gaps, I present: The Limoncelli Test

Posted by Tom Limoncelli at July 25, 2011 10:00 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Sysadmin Appreciation Day 2011

This coming Friday, July 29, 2011 is the 12th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day.

http://www.sysadminday.com/

LOPSA has a list of vendors giving discounts that day (including their own membership is 25% off!)

Here are the celebrations that I know about:

Posted by Tom Limoncelli at July 23, 2011 11:05 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Data? We have a lot at.

Cluster management operates on a very large scale: whereas a storage system that can hold a petabyte of data is considered large by most people, our storage systems will send us an emergency page when it has only a few petabytes of free space remaining.
This guy is not exaggerating.

This is why I love working at Google. (Did I mention that my coworker has a sign on his desk that says, "I work here because I love this shit!")

Tom

Posted by Tom Limoncelli at July 18, 2011 10:00 AM | Comments (2) | TrackBack