If you’re in tune with the various tech communities, you’ve probably noticed a big push for professional development in the technical ranks. I love the recognition that IT pros need…
Know Your IT Department Frenemies (aka Why Can’t We Be Friends?)
Why Risk Management Is Critical to Your IT Infrastructure
Picture this. It’s late 2006, we’re on the verge of the 2008 economic collapse in the United States, and an investment bank makes a strategic move. Their data models show…
Data Tampering: The Quiet Threat
For decades, data tampering has been limited to relatively simple attacks, like data corruption (which is immediately noticeable) or “cooking the books” to hide embezzlement or other financial failings. Of late, however,…
Is Hyperconverged Infrastructure Beneficial for the SMB?
So much in IT today is focused on the enterprise. At times, smaller organizations get left out of big enterprise data center conversations. Enterprise tools are far too expensive and…
Best Practices for Launching a Service Catalog
If you find yourself dealing with an influx of requests, a lack of organization, or employees not knowing when to expect services to be completed – it may be time…
Why Choose HCI Over Other Virtualization Approaches?
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…
2 Key Assets in the Government’s Cybersecurity Battle (Part I)
The Trump administration issued two significant reports in the last couple of months attesting to the state of the federal government’s cybersecurity posture. The Federal Cybersecurity Risk Determination Report and…
Maintaining a Secure Environment: Understanding Its Components
In the previous blog, we discussed how defining use cases mapped to important security and business- related objectives are the first step in building and maintaining a secure environment. We’ve…
How to Protect Yourself When Your Software Vendor Has Been Acquired
While we all know mergers and acquisitions are common in competitive markets, end users often don’t get insight into the reasoning behind the purchase or takeover. While these decisions sometimes…
Top 10 Acronyms: ITIL 4 Terms to Remember
Implementing ITIL can be a big experience for your organization, especially with a sea of acronyms to remember. We're giving you a head start with our top 10 ITIL acronyms,…