Have you talked to your users lately? Here’s a fun task for you this week or next: Take one of your most problematic users out to coffee. Just tell them…
Getting Out Of Infrastructure Mode
Networking Without Firewalls
We have all heard the saying “It’s who you know, not what you know.” There is truth in the statement. Your personal network can help you succeed in your career…
Seeing the Big Picture: Give Me All of the Data
The collection of operational and and analytics information can be an addictive habit, especially in the case of an interesting and active network. However, this information can quickly and easily…
How to Use Monitoring Tools to Sniff Out the Root Cause
When it comes to IT, things go wrong from time to time. Servers crash, memory goes bad, power supplies die, files get corrupted, backups get corrupted…there are so many things…
Security Monitoring – It’s All About the Data
In this series, we’ve covered some key areas that can help prepare for potential attacks. Preparation is essential. Security policies are essential. Understanding your network and its assets is essential.…
How TV Viewership Is Like Application Monitoring
Have you ever read about TV ratings? Almost every person that watches TV has heard of the ratings produced by the Nielsen Media Research group. These statistics shape how we watch TV…
Data Protection: Culture, Tools, People, and Roles
In my previous posts about Building a Culture of Data Protection (Overview, Development, Features, Expectations), I covered the background of building a culture. In this post, I’ll be going over the data protection…
What Makes a Thought Leader?
What do The Guru, The Expert, The Maven, The Trailblazer, The Leading Light, The Practice Leader, The Heavyweight, The Opinion Shaper, and The Influencer all have in common? These are…
Cross-Referencing Alarms: Network Security Monitoring and Network Outage Notifications
As anyone that has run a network of any size has surely experienced, with one alert, there is typically (but not always) a deeper issue that may or may not…
It’s 2 a.m., Do You Know Where Your Data Is?
If you are old enough, you might remember that commercial that played late at night and went something like this… “It’s 10 p.m., do you know where your children are?” …