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There are good and bad ways to select a sample from a stream of events. Depending on how you do it, the resulting sample might be biased or incomplete in…

In this series, I’ve tried to help you see the importance of SQL Server® monitoring, and also understand what that monitoring is telling you. So far, we’ve looked at how…

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” –Stephen Hawking Search for the term “threat intelligence” and you’ll get 12.3 million hits. Not all of them are relevant to cyber,…

Active Directory, commonly known as AD, can be considered the heart of the IT infrastructure. It holds user account information, computers and servers, provides authentication and certificates. It even has…

Now that you’ve configured monitoring and alerting for your applications, what are you going to do with the knowledge you’ve gained? Using some of the data that you receive from…

Sometimes, when working with a top-of-the-line monitoring tool, having access to the best possible visibility, granularity, and reliability is simply not enough. Sure, those features represent the ultimate goals in…

Welcome back. Last time we met, I reiterated the importance of a good SQL Server monitoring solution, and not just monitoring, but monitoring intelligently. We also went over ways to…

Email is the lifeline for almost every business in this world. When email is down businesses cannot communicate. There is loss of productivity, which could lead to dollars lost, which…

As IT professionals, our main mission is to keep applications running successfully. Each application is judged by end-users, using different factors. Exchange is considered successful by users as long as…

As IT professionals, we have all been there, the dreaded help desk call “Is email down?” (Replace with any business critical application). One of the worst things we deal with…