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Published inMar 2022
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Scott Alan Miller
Scott Alan Miller
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Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller has more than thirty years of experience in IT and software engineering having worked in companies of all sizes, from the smallest firms to the largest companies and governments, and in all types across nearly every type of industry with specialization in investment banking and small business. Scott has been an avid writer for IT magazines and books in both IT and software engineering, has led IT for companies, overseen outsourcing firms, spoken at conferences, worked in both K12 and university programs, contributed heavily to technology forums, and generally been involved in every aspect of the industry. Today Scott provides CIO and architecture services to companies of all sizes through an international consultancy. He also pursues his hobbies including being a hotelier, restaurateur, and photographer.
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Rebooting servers

Ask your average system administrator, or even a non-technical but interested third party, and they will tell you the importance of long uptimes on servers and how they want to see those ultra-high time since reboots on them. It feels natural, and nearly everyone brags about it. My servers have not needed a reboot in three years!

There are two key problems with this, however.

The first problem is that time since reboot carries no business value, and business value determines IT value. So why should we care, let alone brag, about something that has no value? It might be interesting to know how long a system has managed to stay online, but an investor is not going to reap a reward from the fact that a computer system has gone an extended period of time without a reboot. We work for the good of the business, if we start to care about something other than resultant business value, we have lost our way. This happens when we focus on means instead of ends, server...

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Scott Alan Miller has more than thirty years of experience in IT and software engineering having worked in companies of all sizes, from the smallest firms to the largest companies and governments, and in all types across nearly every type of industry with specialization in investment banking and small business. Scott has been an avid writer for IT magazines and books in both IT and software engineering, has led IT for companies, overseen outsourcing firms, spoken at conferences, worked in both K12 and university programs, contributed heavily to technology forums, and generally been involved in every aspect of the industry. Today Scott provides CIO and architecture services to companies of all sizes through an international consultancy. He also pursues his hobbies including being a hotelier, restaurateur, and photographer.
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