A couple of years ago, I wrote about why you don’t need a blockchain. Blockchain is one long transaction log that always gets written to and is never backed up.…
No, You Still Don’t Need a Blockchain
An IT Pro’s Declassified School Success Guide
Class is almost in session, and this year will look very different than it did in years past. Depending on the state and district, school officials have decided to continue…
Monitoring and Securing Cloud-Based Databases Is the Developer’s Responsibility
Modern application development requires more work to ensure the development path and the data it produces are fully in sync, secure, optimized, and error-free. This responsibility has increasingly fallen upon…
Data Security and Privacy at Home
With one of the largest threats to a company’s security and privacy being its own employees, having employees work remotely only adds to the risk. While this year’s Verizon Data…
Nominations for SolarWinds Inaugural IT Pro Day Awards Now Open
2020 has been a challenging, yet outstanding year for IT professionals. “Unique” doesn’t begin to describe the pressures and urgency of the many projects they’re addressing while playing pivotal roles…
SysAdmin Day 2020: Business as Usual During the “New Different”
I’m not going to even try to pretend SysAdmin Day arrives this year under conditions anyone would call “business as usual.” I’m going to avoid the cliched and empty platitudes…
How Digital Transformation Has Evolved Through COVID-19
There’s no debating the value of digital transformation when it comes to optimal business performance, but for many IT leaders, some digital initiatives are pushed to the backburner due to…
Why Investing in Open Source Is Valuable to ISVs
Open source is a fact of life at most organizations today. Even if you don’t directly publish open-source software, you are almost certainly using it. If you or your company…
Could 2020 Be the Year of the IT Professional?
IT professionals are used to change and disruption. From dealing with unexpected hardware malfunctions to troubleshooting dodgy Wi-Fi, IT pros are some of the most resilient employees in any organization.…
Strategies for Staying at the Same Company Long Term
On Being a Lifer If you look at my bio, you might notice I have been at SentryOne for 9 years. That is a mini lifetime in tech. I like…