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ITSM: A Conversation With Garry Schmidt, Part 2

12/04/19 Garry Schmidt first got involved in IT Service Management almost 20 years ago. Since becoming the manager of the IT Operations Center at SaskPower, ITSM has become one of …

Worried About Protecting Your Data? CDM Is Here to Help

12/03/19 The Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program, issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), goes a long way toward helping agencies identify and prioriti…

Three Reasons Your Cloud Database Migration Will Fail

12/02/19 Moving relational data to cloud platforms has emerged as a “last frontier” for cloud-age computing. It is easy to consider the behemoth systems in place at large enterpris…

ITSM: A Conversation With Garry Schmidt

12/02/19 Garry Schmidt first got involved in IT service management (ITSM) almost 20 years ago. Since becoming the manager of the IT Operations Center at SaskPower, ITSM has become …

Why SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) Uses MySQL

11/30/19 This post was featured in our July 2015 anthology of most popular SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) blog posts of all time. With all the choice of database sys…

4 Key Integrations to Consider for Your Service Desk

11/27/19 One of the greatest challenges for IT departments in the age of digital transformation is consolidating data and creating opportunities for different systems to work toget…

Army Network Optimization Could Help Training

11/26/19 The U.S. Army is undergoing a major technology shift affecting how soldiers prepare for battle. Core to the Army’s modernization effort is the implementation of a Syntheti…

Eyes Wide Open: Visibility is Key to Cloud Migration

11/25/19 Migrating to the cloud is smart but it’s not always easy. It can be a complicated process requiring a substantial investment of time and resources. Yet the benefits make t…

How Does AI Benefit the Tech World?

11/25/19 For some, artificial intelligence (AI) can be a scary technology. There are so many articles on the web about how AI will end up replacing X% of IT jobs by Y year. There’s…

IT—More Than a Fancy Calculator: Moving From Cost Center to Business Value

11/22/19 It’s time to stop seeing IT as just a black hole to throw money towards and instead, give back to the business. Often, the lack of proper measurement and standardization a…

Taking a Leap to the Cloud: Benefits to the Business and ITSM

11/21/19 According to CIO, 96% of organizations were using the cloud in 2018. That’s a convincing number, which makes it surprising to hear resistance to the cloud from some of tod…

it-sa in Germany – Recap

11/20/19 At the beginning of October, we attended it-sa for the second time. it-sa, which has been taking place in beautiful Nuremberg over the last ten years, has grown from a med…