The Burden of Monitoring Load Balancers
06/12/18 I was having one of “those” days, and someone asked me to describe what a load balancer did. My answer was something like this. “Imagine your most critical application gai…
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Disaster Recovery – How Logging Can Help Ensure You’ll Get There
06/12/18 Disaster recovery can be a complicated beast to tame. If you’re attempting to recover your IT infrastructure from some kind of disaster, you’re already faced with a number…
Cloud Native Operational Solutions – Malware Prevention Management
06/12/18 Malware prevention is a very hot topic due to the recent ransomware attacks that have completely crippled several companies and organizations. For most smaller companies, …
Cloud Native Operational Solutions – Data Management
06/11/18 Data management is one of the aspects of information technology that is regularly overlooked, but with the explosion of data in recent years and the growth of data only ac…
The Software Arms Race: Do You Even Upgrade?
06/11/18 After you’ve installed your new storage systems and migrated your data onto them, life slows down a bit. Freshly installed systems shouldn’t throw any hardware errors in t…
The Future Isn’t in Databases, But in the Data
06/11/18 In the past year I have earned a couple of certificates from the Microsoft Professional Program. One certificate was in Data Science, the other in Big Data. I’m currently …
5 Strategies for Security and Operations Success
06/11/18 Hybrid IT presents SecOps challenges The Department of Defense (DoD) has long been at the tip of the spear when it comes to successfully melding IT security and operations…
Balancing Stability and Agility
06/11/18 “The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.” C.A.R. Hoare, Turing Award lecture. Software and computers in general are inherently dynamic and not of…
Defining the New Employee-Focused Service Management
06/08/18 When you think of “employee-focused” service management, many of the elements are already there in IT. These best practices are designed to create better working environme…
No Network for Old Men
06/06/18 “Once upon a time, there was a little network…” No there wasn’t. Your network was never little, or if it was, it didn’t stay that way for long. Corporate environments grow…
Control IT Spending With Automatic Warranty Updates
06/06/18 The larger an organization, the more difficult it is to track and predict purchasing and maintenance costs for all of the devices employees use. That’s why lifecycle and w…
Monitor Critical Databases Confidently with the Sensitive Data Vault
06/01/18 Building extremely deep monitoring as a SaaS product has a drawback: we capture too much data for some customers’ compliance requirements. As a result, some companies have…