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Few messages strike fear in the hearts of IT operations staff like the dreaded scan results from your security team. These messages often appear in your inbox early on Monday…

There’s a question I’m sure is keeping some IT managers and CTOs up at night. How do you know when it’s right to move a workload to the cloud? And when you…

Great! You’ve made the decision to migrate to the cloud. What should be the first step towards that goal? The answer is: defining a cloud migration team that understands the…

When it comes to getting something done in IT, the question of “How?” can be overwhelming. There are many different solutions on the market to achieve our data center monitoring and management goals. The best way to achieve success is for project managers and engineers to work together to determine what tools best fit the needs of the project.

By now, almost everyone reading this should have had some experience with using a public cloud service. Personally, I’m using public cloud services daily. Being an independent consultant, I run my own company and I want to be able to focus on my customers, not on running my own IT.

Every operations team has its fair share of monitoring solutions. While you may not have achieved the perfect state of a single pane of glass, you likely have settled on two or three solutions that cover all the hardware and software that supports your business. You even invested considerable time and effort to not just implement these solutions with out-of-the-box settings, but with tailored IT alerting thresholds and alarms that suit your environment’s specific needs. Look at you!

There is no getting away from it: the word “cloud” is a buzzword in the IT industry. and it’s growing in meaning constantly.

Over the coming weeks, I will be writing a series of posts on my varied experiences with hybrid IT. These experiences come from working on countless projects over the last…

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…

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…