Its Goal Setting Time…How Are You Measuring Your Value?

If your company is anything like SolarWinds, you’ve probably been going through the annual goal-setting process with your management team.  In many functions, this is relatively straight forward.  Sales sets goals based on quota, marketing based on creating demand, engineering based on product development and delivery, etc…  But, how do you in IT quantify the value you provide to the organization and therefore determine your goals?  Is it reliability, SLAs, cost control, customer satisfaction, something else?  Or, are you in such a firefighter mode that you never actually get to set goals and objectives?  Share with us some of your goals for the upcoming year and how you measure your value to your company.

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  • rschroeder​,

    I don't typically inject my opinion when it's not asked for, but I've heard rumors from 3 different vendors that Cisco has halted development on the 6800's. I have a VSS pair already and when I started looking for a few more, I was basically talked out it and told to look at 4500s. I don't understand all the sales politics that go on behind the scenes, and have no facts of my own to support the claims, but I trust the sources. You might want to ask around before investing so much money on a tech that might be going away.

    Again, no facts of my own, only claims from trusted sources,

    D

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  • rschroeder​,

    I don't typically inject my opinion when it's not asked for, but I've heard rumors from 3 different vendors that Cisco has halted development on the 6800's. I have a VSS pair already and when I started looking for a few more, I was basically talked out it and told to look at 4500s. I don't understand all the sales politics that go on behind the scenes, and have no facts of my own to support the claims, but I trust the sources. You might want to ask around before investing so much money on a tech that might be going away.

    Again, no facts of my own, only claims from trusted sources,

    D

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