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When “Good Enough” Is Costing You Money

12/11/19 In 2015, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security carried out covert tests on TSA Security at major airports to see how successful they would be at detecting potentially d…

VividCortex is Joining SolarWinds!

12/11/19 We’re excited to share that VividCortex is now part of the SolarWinds® family. We believe this change will help to accelerate the adoption of our product as well as the pa…

How to Configure an Office 365 Tenant

12/11/19 Introduction I’m going to look at the basic steps required for setting up an Office 365 tenant. There are a few ways you can purchase Office 365. There’s the good old cred…

3 Strategies for Managing the IT Impact of Classroom Technology

12/10/19 Forty-eight percent of students currently use a computer in school, while 42% use a smartphone, according to a recent report by Cambridge International. These technologies…

ITSM: A Conversation With Garry Schmidt, Part 3

12/09/19 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 …

Start Automating Your Career

12/06/19 In a recent episode of a popular tech podcast, I heard the hosts say, “If you can’t automate, you and your career are going to get left behind.” Some form of this phrase h…

Hybrid IT Terms ITSM Pros Should Know: A Glossary

12/05/19 Software has evolved a lot further than just something that you purchase and install onto your computer. Businesses now have the luxury—and the burden—of selecting from a …

How Organizations Can Use APM Strategies for a Competitive Edge

12/04/19 Nearly every market in today’s business landscape is saturated, making it every organization’s top goal to create products and provide services rivaling competitors. To he…

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 …