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2019: The Year of Meshing Around and Creating Chaos
January 3, 2019
Lee Calcote
It’s that time of year again—the time to reflect on the past year and anticipate the year ahead. For a number of years now, organizations of all sizes have been…
The Evolution of ITIL
January 2, 2019
Jason Yeary
Unless you’re a current, aspiring, or former IT professional, you probably don’t know exactly what ITIL is. But it also stands to reason that if you’re reading this blog right…
Why Your Infrastructure Sucks For Automation
December 20, 2018
John Herbert
Having convinced myself in previous posts that my automation projects will never be finished and that I will forever be supporting 101 different device connection paradigms, I thought that in…
ITSM And Digital Transformation – Understanding Digital Transformation
December 20, 2018
Sarah Nielsen
For all the contemporary talk about digital transformation and how it’s happening all around us, it can be maddening, trying to get your head wrapped around what it actually is…
Three SIEM Must-Haves
December 19, 2018
Jim Hansen

Many businesses need to increase their security game. You can put all the preventive measures in place that you want—like patching, antivirus, mail protection, and firewalls—yet threats can still slip past defenses.

Application Dependency Mapping: Security and Ongoing ADM
December 19, 2018
Larry Smith, Jr.
Well, here we are. Finally, on the last post of this series. If you have not been following along, you can find the previous posts: part one, part two, part three, part four, and part…
ITIL Alternatives: What Are Other ITSM Frameworks?
December 18, 2018
Tim Lawes
In this post, we will examine the rise and domination of ITIL, looking into how prevalent it actually is, and why that may be so. We’ll also take a look…
Surviving and Thriving in the Ephemeral World of Containers and Functions
December 18, 2018
Lee Calcote
With containers, microservices, and FaaS becoming even more integrated into hybrid and cloud environments, you must remain diligent to make sure you’re navigating these aspects of the modern app development…
The Cost of Monitoring – With the Wrong Tool
December 17, 2018
Leon Adato
or “It’s not just the cost of buying the puppy, it’s the cost of feeding the puppy that adds up” This is a story I’ve told out loud many times, on conference…
All I Want For Christmas Is … RESTCONF?
December 13, 2018
John Herbert
As somebody not lucky enough to have a nice clicky interface with which to manage and automate all my equipment, I have to develop my own tools to do so.…
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