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Matthew Leib

Matt is a long-time engineer, and presales architect specializing in storage, virtualization, and orchestrations in the cloud. He has spent the last 10 years in the virtualization space focusing on Citrix and VMware solutions based on various storage platforms and specializing in Open Solaris, ZFS, EMC, NetApp, 3Par, HP, and Equalogic.

The Latest Posts Featuring Matthew Leib

The High-Performance DBA: Breaking the Burnout Cycle in Modern Database Teams

In this article, Kevin Kline introduces The High-Performance DBA webcast series, drawing on insights from our recent State of Database Report to explain why DBA burnout is rising and how teams can move beyond constant reactivity.

April 1, 2026
Database
The High-Performance DBA: Breaking the Burnout Cycle in Modern Database Teams
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Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap
March 27, 2026
Database

Over the past 15 years, Agile and DevOps have accelerated application delivery, enabling faster, more reliable releases. Yet the database layer often remains a blind spot for observability and performance monitoring.

In this article, Kevin Kline shows why closing the database observability gap is critical to improving performance, efficiency, and resilience for DBAs, developers, and the businesses that depend on their data.
Hyperconverged Infrastructure—Summary
September 27, 2019
Monitoring and Observability
Here’s the fifth part of the series I’ve been writing regarding HCI. Again, I don’t want to sway my audience from one platform to another. Rather, I want them to…
Storage, Replication, and Backups
September 20, 2019
Database
This is the fourth post of my series on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) architectural design and decision-making. For my money, the differences between these diverse systems is a function of the…
Varying Approaches to Hyperconverged Infrastructure, or Why This Over That?
September 5, 2019
Infrastructure Monitoring and Observability
In this third post on the subject, I’ll discuss hyperconverged architectural approaches. I want to share some of my experiences in how and why my customers have taken different choices,…
Why Choose HCI Over Other Virtualization Approaches?
August 21, 2019
Infrastructure Monitoring and Observability
This is the second of a series of five posts on the market space for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). To be clear, as the previous blog post outlined, there are many…
What Is Hyperconverged Infrastructure and How HCI Works
August 5, 2019
Infrastructure Monitoring and Observability
This is the first of a five-part series on HCI. I hope you enjoy and this prompts discussion. Please feel free to reach out to me via Twitter at @MBLeib.…
My Life as IT Code: Part 5 – Walking the Wall
November 27, 2017
Database
In this, my fifth and final post about life hacks, I’ll talk about the communication process, clarifications across all key personnel, and a big approach in how some of these…
My Life as IT Code: Part Four – Exercise and Sandbox
November 16, 2017
Database
In previous posts in this “My Life” blog series, I’ve written quite a bit about the project management/on-task aspects of how I keep my focus and direction top of mind…
How Does your VMware Environment Look Today? A Rationale for the VOA
December 16, 2015
Monitoring and Observability
VMware® as a technology has a huge potential to sprawl. Have you created an environment for testing purposes? Have projects required a number of guest VMs to be built, but…
When Should You NOT Virtualize That System?
November 11, 2015
Monitoring and Observability Network
Virtualization is an amazing and valuable tool for so many reasons. I’ve been a proponent of the concept since GSX server, and early Workstation products. In the early days, I…
How to Explain Virtualization to Newbies
October 15, 2015
Monitoring and Observability
In the world of enterprise architecture, many parts of our daily conversations are taken for granted. We talk about virtualization, vMotion®, Storage vMotion, Replication, IOPS, and so very many other…