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Defining Your IT Journey

08/01/18 The IT journey is really nothing more than your career plan or goals that you have for your career. It’s the story of you. I call it the IT Journey because it’s a journey …

Key IIS metrics to monitor

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Collecting metrics with IIS monitoring tools

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IIS monitoring with Datadog

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SaaS vs PaaS vs IaaS: What’s the Difference and How to Choose

07/31/18 Understanding the basics of IaaS vs PaaS and Saas vs PaaS has become a crucial aspect of understanding for businesses that leverage cloud-based services. The post SaaS vs …

Cybersecurity Fundamentals – Attack Surfaces and Vulnerabilities

07/31/18 In the first blog of this series, we became familiar with some well-used cybersecurity terminology. This blog will look at some well-known cyberattack and threat types and…

Dash 2018: Inspiring talks, new features, and a great community

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What Is Cardinality in Monitoring?

07/30/18 I wrote a couple of “definitions and nuances” posts about terminology in databases recently (cardinality, selectivity), and today I want to write one about cardinality in …

Culture of Data Protection: Development Counts, Too.

07/30/18 In my earlier post in this data protection series, I mentioned that data security and privacy is difficult: Building a culture that favours protecting data can be challeng…

5 Ways to Boost Service Delivery with IT Asset Management

07/26/18 Tie your IT assets and CMDB to the rest of your service desk: incident management, change management, service requests, etc. Here are five areas of service delivery where …

Security Pain Points: Upper Management and Budget

07/26/18 Security should be a top priority for IT professionals within all areas of skills. One of the top pain points is how to convey the story of security to upper management, s…

Announcing Windows support in Datadog process monitoring

This Datadog article explains how to leverage their platform to proactively detect and troubleshoot Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) errors. By integrating Windows event logs wi…