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Paul Stringfellow

Paul has 20 years’ experience working with IT infrastructure and specializes in the design, development and strategic direction. He spends a large portion of his time looking at the technology market and understanding how new technologies and trends fix difficult business challenges. Paul has worked with many businesses designing a wide range of solutions from small and medium businesses to large enterprises. He has worked extensively with IBM, Microsoft, and NetApp, as well as a wide range of data management, security, and analytics companies.

The Latest Posts Featuring Paul Stringfellow

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.
Virtualization’s Future
October 10, 2019
Infrastructure Monitoring and Observability
During this series, we’ve looked at virtualization’s past, the challenges it has created, and how its evolution will allow it to continue to play a part in infrastructure delivery in…
How Infrastructure as Code Is Driving Virtualization’s Future
October 2, 2019
Infrastructure Monitoring and Observability
So far in this virtualization series, we’ve discussed its history, the pre-eminence of server virtualization, the issues it has created, and how changing demands placed on our infrastructure are leading…
Virtualization’s Software-Defined Future
September 25, 2019
Infrastructure Monitoring and Observability
In the first two parts of this series, we looked at both the history of virtualization and the new set of problems it’s introduced into our infrastructures. In part three,…
What’s Up With Virtualization? Virtualization Basics 101
August 28, 2019
Infrastructure Monitoring and Observability
In part one of this series, I tried to apply context to the virtualization market—its history, how it’s changed the way we deploy infrastructure, and how it’s developed into the de…
Virtualization – How We Got Here and Does It Have a Future?
August 14, 2019
Monitoring and Observability
In over 20 years I’ve spent in the IT industry, I’ve seen many changes, but nothing has had a bigger impact as virtualization. I remember sitting in a classroom back…