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Articles by Matt Christopher
Bookshelf: Batter up with these baseball books
'Last Days of Summer' by Steve Kluger Joey Margolis is the neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking for a hero, Joey decides to latch on to Charlie Banks, the all-star third basemen for the New York Giants. But Joey's chosen champion doesn't exactly welcome the extreme attention of a persistent young fan with an overactive imagination. Then again, this strange, needy kid might be exactly what Banks needs.
Pop Culture Care Package #15: Good Sports
Hello Dames Nation! Alyssa here (@alyssakeiko on Twitter), it’s been a couple years since I last guest edited and a lot of things have been terrible since then, both personally and globally. However, one good thing that has happened is my good friend Sean Doolittle won a World Series with the Washington Nationals. Phillies fandom is what got me on Twitter in the first place over 10 years ago, but now a decade older and also more mature I am able to root for EVEN a division rival.
Gearing Up For A Defensive Strategy
Editor's note: Seeking Alpha is proud to welcome Matt Christopher as a new contributor. It's easy to become a Seeking Alpha contributor and earn money for your best investment ideas. Active contributors also get free access to the SA PRO archive. Click here to find out more » The U.S. economy has maintained a long period of economic expansion. However, there are signs pointing to a recession in the next 12-24 months.
UC Monitoring and Alerting
Recognizing the Narrow Value of UC Monitoring & Alerting A few months ago, my father-in-law was admitted to the hospital for some pulmonary concerns. When I got to his room to visit him, he was already tethered to a myriad of machines, each monitoring a different part of his overall health: pulse, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, temperature, etc. Every time I visit my doctor, they take my blood pressure.
Only Using the Rear View is a Dangerous Way to Drive
Recognizing the Narrow Value of UC Reporting About 18 months ago, in my Getting “Real” About Functionality – Getting Precise about the Capabilities of IT Pro Tools blog post, I first got on my soapbox about precision in language. Today, I point my punctilious lexical lens at “reporting”. With the popularity of buzzwords like “analytics” and “big data”, every company claims they can do “reporting”; just look at the banner of any booth in any UC Expo Hall.
Since Your Communications Aren’t Necessarily Unified, Your Tools Should Be
An Exploration of the Platform Domain of UC At Nectar, we break the world of UC into 3 “health” domains, the platform domain, the network domain, and the endpoint domain. The fact that the UC user experience traverses these 3 health domains, makes it especially challenging to monitor, diagnose, and report on the UC environment, unless you have a tool that provides correlation across the 3 domains. Today’s blog post highlights some additional challenges within the Platform Domain.
Since Your Communications Aren’t Necessarily Unified, Your Tools Should Be
At Nectar, we break the world of UC into 3 “health” domains, the platform domain, the network domain, and the endpoint domain. The fact that the UC user experience traverses these 3 health domains, makes it especially challenging to monitor, diagnose, and report on the UC environment, unless you have a tool that provides correlation across the 3 domains. Today’s blog post highlights some additional challenges within the Platform Domain.
Partners: Make Pre-Assessment a Priority for your Enterprise UC Network
More and more enterprises today are considering the cloud as their option for their enterprise unified communications (UC) deployment on the promises of reduced management costs and quicker access to key features. The hosted UC providers who supply the cloud for these deployments have their clients believing that any and all UC network challenges will be solved overnight.
Mark Trumbo is now the real-life 'Kid Who Only Hit Homers'
Any sports fan who went to the library as a kid is familiar with the works of author Matt Christopher. Over his career, Christopher published over 100 novels, a large amount of which were about sports. If you’re familiar with his works, you can picture some of the artwork and titles of his books right now.
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