Recent Articles by Craig McDonald

Tweaking Your Monitoring Strategy for a Seamless End-User Experience

03/15/21 Technology and end users have an almost dichotomous relationship; as technology gets more c...

How Digital Transformation Is Changing the Role of the Government CIO

12/07/20 Under the leadership of innovative CIOs—Chief Information Officers—the public sector is...

Monitoring 101: The Fundamental Concepts of System Monitoring

11/09/20 The answer to troubleshooting network challenges lies in effectively monitoring your enviro...

How to Monitor, Manage, and Secure Active Directory

10/05/20 Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is the nerve center enabling your federal agency to access ...

Are Cloud Computing Engineers the Missing Link on Your Federal IT Team?

08/11/20 Cloud computing can be more complex than anticipated, particularly as agencies continue to ...

Monitoring and Securing Cloud-Based Databases Is the Developer’s Responsibility

08/04/20 Modern application development requires more work to ensure the development path and the da...

3 Ways to Maintain Your Agency’s Focus on IT Modernization

07/21/20 Congress set the stage for IT modernization across the federal government by passing the Mo...

Suggested Cloud Monitoring Strategies for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

07/07/20 From the Cloud First policy established in 2010 to last year’s Cloud Smart update, it’s...

After Cloud, Is a Software-Defined Data Center in Your Future?

04/07/20 All roads lead to the cloud. In fact, our cybersecurity survey revealed a majority of state...