Scientists Discover Why Macaque Monkeys in Japan Constantly Bathe in Hot Springs Skip to main content Thinking problem management! This is the blog of Ronald Bartels that wanders on and off the subject of problem management (that is how it started). Mostly now the topics are about IoT and SD-WAN. Search Search This Blog Scientists Discover Why Macaque Monkeys in Japan Constantly Bathe in Hot Springs September 10, 2018 The primates' penchant for relaxing in geysers in central Japan has long puzzled researchers, who assumed that they just did so to stay warm. A new study by researchers from Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute and Wildlife Research Center has discovered that the macaques who bathe in the hot springs at Nagano Prefecture's Jigokudani Valley do so in part to keep their stress levels in check. Read the article over at Sputnik here. Share Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Labels Life Labels: Life Share Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Comments Post a Comment Popular posts from this blog Why Madge Networks, the token-ring company, went titsup October 27, 2021 There I was shooting the breeze with an old mate. The conversation turned to why Madge Networks which I wrote about here went titsup. My analysis is that Madge Networks had a solution and decided to go out and find a problem. They deferred to more incorrect strategic technology choices. The truth of the matter is that when something goes titsup, its not because of one reason only, but a myriad of them all contributing to the negative consequence. There are the immediate or visual ones, which are underpinned by intermediate ones and finally after digging right down, there are the root causes. There is never a singular root cause for anything but I'll present my opinion and encourage everyone else to chip in. All of them together are more likely the reason the company went titsup. As far as technology brainfarts go there is no better example than Kodak . They invented the digital camera that killed them. However, they were so focused on milking people in their leg Share Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Post a Comment Read more Flawed "ITIL aligned"​ Incident Management October 27, 2021 Many "ITIL aligned" service desk tools have flawed incident management. The reason is that incidents are logged with a time association and some related fields to type in some gobbledygook. The expanded incident life cycle is not enforced and as a result trending and problem management is not possible. Here is a fictitious log of an incident at PFS, a financial services company, which uses CGTSD, an “ITIL-aligned” service desk tool. Here is the log of an incident record from this system: Monday, 12 August: 09:03am (Bob, the service desk guy): Alice (customer in retail banking) phoned in. Logged an issue. Unable to assist over the phone (there goes our FCR), will escalate to second line. 09:04am (Bob, the service desk guy): Escalate the incident to Charles in second line support. 09:05am (Charles, technical support): Open incident. 09:05am (Charles, technical support): Delayed incident by 1 day. Tuesday, 13 August: 10:11am (Charles, technical support): Phoned Alice. Share Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Post a Comment Read more Updated: Articles by Ron Bartels published on iot for all October 28, 2021 These are articles that I published during the course of the past year on one of the popular international Internet of Things publishing sites, iot for all . These are articles that I published during the course of the past year on one of the popular international Internet of Things publishing sites, iot for all . Improving Data Center Reliability With IoT Reliability and availability are essential to data centers. IoT can enable better issue tracking and data collection, leading to greater stability. Doing the Work Right in Data Centers With Checklists Data centers are complex. Modern economies rely upon their continuous operation. IoT solutions paired with this data center checklist can help! IoT Optimi Share Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Post a Comment Read more About Me Ronald Bartels Information Technology Solutions Architect delivering on business requirements including those related to SDWAN and IoT. 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