System Administrator

The system administrator is sometimes called sysadmin, is a person employed to maintain and operate computer system and network. System administrator may be member of an information technology department. A sysadmin is a professional, who plans, worries, hacks, fixes, delegates, protects and creates good computer networks, to get you your data, to help you do work to bring the potential of computing ever closer to reality.

Last decade system administrator job was to resolve the system related issues. Now system administrators are the Back Bone of the company. The challenges of the system administrator is to secure the network from every one and outside network. The top priority of the system administrator to secure the valuable data of the company. The daunting task of the system administrator is to handle all the levels of Top Managers.

Systems administrators are responsible for maintaining network efficiency. They ensure that the design of an organization’s computer system allows all of the components, including computers, the network, and software, to work properly together. Furthermore, they monitor and adjust the performance of existing networks and continually survey the current computer site to determine future network needs. Administrators also troubleshoot problems reported by users and by automated network monitoring systems and make recommendations for future system upgrades.

A sysadmin not only worries about spam, viruses, spy ware, but also power outages, fires and floods. When the email server goes down at 2 AM on a Sunday, your sysadmin is paged, wakes up, and goes to work.System Administrator Appreciation Day, also known as Sysadmin Day, SysAdminDay or SAAD, was created by Ted Kekatos, a system administrator in Chicago. Kekatos was inspired to create the special day by a Hewlett-Packard magazine advertisement in which a system administrator is presented with flowers and fruit-baskets by grateful co-workers as thanks for installing new printers. The holiday exists to show appreciation for the work of sysadmins and other IT workers. It is celebrated on the last Friday in July. The first System Administrator Appreciation Day was celebrated on July 28, 2000. The next holiday is Friday, July 31, 2009.

July 25th of this year is the bookmark of system administrator, Yes it is the System Administrator Appreciation Day. Standing in the verge of 9th annual year, the system administrator extracts an exclusive appreciation and identification from their coworkers and management for their true devotion and dedication of work.More than being gifted with expensive cards and pack of cash, they should be acknowledged for their expertise in their field. This crowning of talent encourages them to work along 365 ½ days with energetic gear to face strains and stress of IT industry.