Assessing the Need for Cloud Certifications
10/16/18 As the demand for cloud continues to grow, so does the demand for hiring the best engineers who understand how to manage and leverage public cloud services. Earlier this m…
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Do You Need an On-Prem Storage Vault?
10/15/18 Data protection has traditionally involved an on-prem storage vault, but as data protection solutions evolve, this requirement is becoming increasingly optional. On-prem s…
You Are Here – Making Sense of Modern InfoSec
10/12/18 Now that we all carry supercomputers complete with real-time GPS mapping in our pockets, a reference to physical maps may feel a bit antiquated. You know the ones I’m talk…
Website Downtime and What to Do About It
10/11/18 Website downtime, while most obvious when the entire site goes down, is often hidden in backend issues that affect the usability of the site, while preserving the site’s g…
Not Another AI Post…
10/10/18 Modern network and systems engineers have a lot to deal with. Things like overlapping roles, constantly changing client devices, and new applications popping up daily crea…
What is ESM? Hint: It’s Not What You’ve Been Told
10/09/18 In order to understand the enterprise service management framework, it may be helpful to think of it more as “Employee Service Management.” The post What is ESM? Hint: It’…
Things That Merit Consideration During Service Desk Implementation
10/04/18 The route to successful integration, now more than ever, lies in building and implementing a comprehensive and employee-focused service management strategy. The post Thing…
A Million Little Things: Global Baselines
10/04/18 Baselines are one of my favorite topics, as setting them is one of the most important things you can do when measuring data. It should underpin everything that you do, whe…
Customer Experience Guide – How Managing your IT Help Desk Can Pay Dividends
10/02/18 Knowing how to talk to customers isn’t necessarily something that can be programmed into your team, or an innate underlying skill that they will default to in every situat…
The Problem of Complexity in Modern Backup Software
10/02/18 Data protection is a complicated endeavor. This is largely because IT is a complicated endeavor, and data protection involves backing up all the data from existing IT depl…
To Create Great Products, Optimization is Just as Important as Innovation
10/01/18 I left academia for the so-called real world in the late 90s because nothing seemed more exciting than the tech industry, which, at the time, was turning the world upside-…
The Guiding Principles For ITIL Practitioners
09/28/18 Your Service Desk is the nexus of your communication with both internal and external stakeholders, your customers, and your entire organization. The post The Guiding Princ…