Dominic Wellington
Dominic Wellington is Chief Evangelist at Moogsoft, where his primary focus is on the emerging field of AIOps - the application of algorithmic and machine-learning techniques to IT operations. He has been involved in IT operations for a number of years, most recently in marketing and communicating the value of integrating security into operations (what is now known as SecOps). Previously Dominic supported BMC customers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in their strategic cloud projects. Dominic joined BMC with the acquisition of BladeLogic, where he started up Southern Europe pre-sales operations. Before BladeLogic, he worked in pre-sales and system administration for Mercury and HP. Dominic is fluent in English, Italian, French, Spanish and German, and has studied and worked between Italy, England and Germany.
Latest from Dominic Wellington
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Shadow IT is in the Data Center – Time to Change
Enterprise IT has been living in the dark for too long. It’s time to step out into the light. When I have a conversation with IT professionals about their monitoring strategies, they usually relax, sit back in their chair, and assure me it’s all taken care of. When we dig into the details together, they
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Giving the Benefit of Hanlon’s Razor
There’s usually a good reason for things to be the way they are The first reaction when something goes wrong is often to cry: “look at what those idiots did!”. When British Airways experienced their recent power outage, everyone rushed to bike-shed what they had done wrong. Was it cost-cutting, was it out-sourcing and off-shoring,
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In ITSM, Agility is Nothing Without Control
Did you hear the news? It seems that reports of ITSM’s death have been greatly exaggerated! Let me caveat this sensational claim by saying that, if you are coming from the perspective of a ten-person team just getting started, and you don’t own any actual physical IT infrastructure apart from your bestickered MacBooks, I don’t
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How to Achieve True IT Agility – The Value of AIOps
Large organizations are like dinosaurs; it takes time for a message to make it all the way from the tail, where pain is felt, to the head, where decisions can be made, and back down to the tail. In IT Operations, which must react in real time to an environment that is evolving constantly, this
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AIOps and How It Will Transform IT Operations for the Next 10 Years
The model couldn’t keep up with the real world, so this is what we need to do instead IT Operations people tend to be, by and large, a cautious bunch. The unstated Rule One of the profession is “if it ain’t broke, don’t touch it”. There are very good reasons for this caution; nobody wants to
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