Disaster recovery can be a complicated beast to tame. If you’re attempting to recover your IT infrastructure from some kind of disaster, you’re already faced with a number of challenges.…
Disaster Recovery – How Logging Can Help Ensure You’ll Get There
Cloud Native Operational Solutions – Malware Prevention Management
Malware prevention is a very hot topic due to the recent ransomware attacks that have completely crippled several companies and organizations. For most smaller companies, being able to hire a…
Cloud Native Operational Solutions – Data Management
Data management is one of the aspects of information technology that is regularly overlooked, but with the explosion of data in recent years and the growth of data only accelerating,…
The Software Arms Race: Do You Even Upgrade?
After you’ve installed your new storage systems and migrated your data onto them, life slows down a bit. Freshly installed systems shouldn’t throw any hardware errors in the first stages…
The Future Isn’t in Databases, But in the Data
In the past year I have earned a couple of certificates from the Microsoft Professional Program. One certificate was in Data Science, the other in Big Data. I’m currently working…
5 Strategies for Security and Operations Success
Hybrid IT presents SecOps challenges The Department of Defense (DoD) has long been at the tip of the spear when it comes to successfully melding IT security and operations…
Balancing Stability and Agility
“The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.” C.A.R. Hoare, Turing Award lecture. Software and computers in general are inherently dynamic and not of a state…
Defining the New Employee-Focused Service Management
When you think of “employee-focused” service management, many of the elements are already there in IT. These best practices are designed to create better working environments where employees get what…
No Network for Old Men
“Once upon a time, there was a little network…” No there wasn’t. Your network was never little, or if it was, it didn’t stay that way for long. Corporate…
Control IT Spending With Automatic Warranty Updates
The larger an organization, the more difficult it is to track and predict purchasing and maintenance costs for all of the devices employees use. That’s why lifecycle and warranty tracking…