02/01/23 By Scott Sinclair, Enterprise Strategy Group Practice Director; and Monya Keane, Senior Res...
12/14/22 This article was updated on August 28th 2024 Application engineers, sometimes called softwa...
10/06/22 One of my first projects as a consultant created a web application for a small tax software...
08/05/22 If you’re a developer or site reliability engineer, you might have noticed options to use...
02/28/22 The addition of Amazon Web Services and VMware to the Defense Department’s milCloud 2.0 c...
01/28/22 Back in the day, monitoring applications from end to end was—for the most part—signific...
11/22/21 The U.S. State Department has a global workforce of 69,000 across more than 270 diplomatic ...
09/27/21 When considering whether to add more applications or monitoring components to your IT syste...
08/30/21 “Cloud-first” has been a government imperative for many years, but the pandemic usurped...
07/19/21 One of the business consequences from the pandemic—increased remote working—is causing ...
07/06/21 As the past year has shown, cloud computing has proved a vital service for K–12 public sc...
05/10/21 According to a 2020 survey from IDG, 55% of organizations use two or more public clouds. Ye...
05/03/21 Developers are the kingmakers. Millions of decisions made by tens of thousands of developer...
04/26/21 Though government agencies continue to move to the cloud to accelerate their digital transf...
04/20/21 “Cost” would seem to underpin almost every decision IT teams make. Sure, business requi...
04/19/21 The race to cloud migration can seem like a good idea for most businesses, but a common tre...
04/12/21 Federal IT pros have tracked application performance for decades. Today’s environments ar...
03/04/21 Knowing if a server has high CPU is helpful, but does it really matter if your end users ca...
02/15/21 Container technology is catching on big-time in the federal government as agencies such as ...
02/08/21 Application programming interfaces (APIs) allow applications to communicate, interoperate, ...
12/11/20 Moving to the cloud and into hybrid environments—even in the past year—has created seve...
12/09/20 Legacy applications used to be monolithic, often with the database, code, and web server on...
11/06/20 There’s a time-tested saying in IT: zero sensors, zero incidents. What goes unmeasured go...
11/02/20 Supporting legacy applications is problematic for several reasons. These aging systems are ...
10/20/20 If the users aren’t happy, then in short order, neither will anyone else be. The ubiquity...
10/09/20 Digital transformation is changing the way companies do business, putting pressure on IT to...
10/07/20 Given the increasing complexity IT infrastructures (network, storage, compute, platforms, e...
09/25/20 Ask a hundred IT pros and their managers what “cloud native” is, and you’ll get as ma...
09/14/20 Application performance management (APM) involves managing the availability and performance...
09/02/20 If you’ve run across other articles I’ve written about hybrid cloud, you’ll notice a ...
08/31/20 Change isn’t without its detractors in terms of people and systems. A misstep in expandin...
08/14/20 Accidental DBA is a term most IT pros are familiar with, and traditionally it describes an ...
08/11/20 Cloud computing can be more complex than anticipated, particularly as agencies continue to ...
07/07/20 From the Cloud First policy established in 2010 to last year’s Cloud Smart update, it’s...
07/06/20 It’s a day for celebration! Our migration is complete, and our applications are now runni...
07/01/20 There are two easy ways to make your cloud application faster and they’re homonyms; cash ...
06/26/20 Some, maybe. But not most. Look, I have this theory. I also have data. And as with most sto...
06/23/20 As hybrid environments become more popular, federal IT teams are faced with managing and se...
05/19/20 The DOD cloud strategy recognizes the department’s disjointed and siloed systems have neg...
05/18/20 Now, here’s the thing—digital transformation is such a broad term, you probably could p...
05/17/20 In developed economies, people who don’t use information technology are rare. Organizatio...
05/16/20 Many components of cloud and SaaS technology are incredibly useful, but the hairball of hyb...
05/12/20 The federal government’s 2019 Federal Cloud Computing Strategy — Cloud Smart calls for ...
05/11/20 The day has finally come. We’ve potentially ventured out of our comfort zone to collect i...
05/09/20 Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) hosted applicati...
05/01/20 Cloud Field Day, hosted by Gestalt IT, is an invite-only, live-streamed technical meeting f...
04/29/20 All right, this is where things start to get more fun. To this point we’ve done a lot of ...
03/06/20 In the previous post of this series, we talked about the importance of requirements and gai...
03/04/20 Technology work is very progressive. Rapid progress drives the industry to constantly learn...
03/03/20 Containers are here to stay. According to the SolarWinds 2019 IT Trends Report, 41% of fede...