Bust the Ghost VMs in Your Cloud Closet
10/28/19 We all have free and available resources lurking in our infrastructure, though sprawl reduces efficiencies, and many resources are “technically” being consumed by “ghosts”…
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Cloudy With a Chance of Governance: RBAC, Policy, and Improving Cloud Confidence
10/27/19 For many organizations, the decision of moving workloads to the cloud is all over but the shouting. The problem is that the shouting is pretty loud, and often centers arou…
A Ghost in SolarWinds Machine Learning
10/27/19 Finally, artificial intelligence and machine learning are moving past hype and into the tools you actually depend on to keep operations humming. And now that machine learn…
Who Moved My Active Directory?
10/26/19 Active Directory is the backbone to so many things that run your business. But recent years have brought significant change to this once predictable and reliable tool. As …
2012 Upgrade Grief Therapy
10/26/19 Every now and then engineers get excited – giddy even – by the words “time to upgrade.” Who doesn’t love new features, better performance, and bug fixes? But too often tho…
I’m Still On-Premises, Is That OK?
10/25/19 If you stop and think for a moment, cloud computing is still in its youth. EC2 has only been a public offering since 2006. Gartner® first treated “the cloud” as a real thi…
CSAM: Don’t Miss These Commonly Overlooked Areas of Cybersecurity
10/25/19 Security isn’t just about the latest technical controls or the newest threat. Rani Johnson talks about two areas of security she thinks should get more emphasis. If you wa…
Why the Service Desk Has Become the Center for Employee Engagement
10/24/19 What is Employee Engagement? What’s the best place you’ve ever worked? Why did you like it so much? Great manager and coworkers? Flexible work schedule? Nice paycheck? The…
Don’t Shut Your Pi-Hole, Monitor It! (part 2 of 2)
10/24/19 In my last post I gave some background on one of my recent side projects: setting up and then monitoring a Raspberry Pi running Pi-Hole. In this post, I’m going to dive in…
How the IT Service Desk Can Better Engage with Remote Employees
10/23/19 According to a report based on statistics from the U.S. Census and the U.S. Bureau of Labor, remote work has increased nearly 160% since 2005. It’s no secret that the enab…
Traditional Infrastructure vs. Hyperconverged Infrastructure
10/23/19 Perhaps the title of this post should be “To Hyperconverge or Not to Hyperconverge,” since it’s the question at hand. Understanding whether HCI is a good idea requires a h…
SolarWinds at Microsoft Ignite 2019
10/22/19 Microsoft Ignite is taking place November 4 – 8 in Orlando, and SolarWinds will be there to share the latest in IT management, from IT operations to outsourced IT and clou…