Cloud Smart’s Success Relies on Smart Network Monitoring
09/03/19 The Office of Management and Budget’s Cloud Smart proposal signals both the end of an era and the beginning of new opportunities. The focus has shifted from ramping up clo…
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VMware Certifications
08/30/19 Obtaining a VMware certification requires effort, dedication, and a willingness to learn independently with a commitment to the subject matter. To fulfill the requirements…
6 Risk Management Best Practices You Can Implement Today
08/29/19 Understanding risk management (and why it’s important) as I highlighted in my last post, Why Risk Management Is Critical to Your IT Infrastructure, is essential as you beg…
The Essential IT Asset Management Checklist
08/28/19 As one of the 34 practices outlined in ITIL 4, IT asset management (ITAM) is one of the most practical undertakings your IT department can carry out this year. While asset…
What’s Up With Virtualization? Virtualization Basics 101
08/28/19 In part one of this series, I tried to apply context to the virtualization market—its history, how it’s changed the way we deploy infrastructure, and how it’s developed in…
2 Key Assets in the Government’s Cybersecurity Battle (Part II)
08/27/19 Read part one here. Technology: Providing the Necessary Visibility Cybersecurity personnel can’t succeed without the proper tools, but many of them don’t have the technolo…
Troubleshoot .NET apps with auto-correlated traces and logs
The Datadog extension for Azure App Service simplifies monitoring .NET applications running in Azure by automatically collecting metrics, traces, and logs. This integration provide…
History of PASS, Part 3: Bylaws Version 1
08/26/19 I’ve been taking some spare time, which doesn’t come along very often, to record some of the details of PASS during its very first years of existence. In case you haven’t …
Know Your IT Department Frenemies (aka Why Can’t We Be Friends?)
08/26/19 If you’re in tune with the various tech communities, you’ve probably noticed a big push for professional development in the technical ranks. I love the recognition that IT…
Why Risk Management Is Critical to Your IT Infrastructure
08/23/19 Picture this. It’s late 2006, we’re on the verge of the 2008 economic collapse in the United States, and an investment bank makes a strategic move. Their data models show …
Data Tampering: The Quiet Threat
08/23/19 For decades, data tampering has been limited to relatively simple attacks, like data corruption (which is immediately noticeable) or “cooking the books” to hide embezzleme…
Is Hyperconverged Infrastructure Beneficial for the SMB?
08/22/19 So much in IT today is focused on the enterprise. At times, smaller organizations get left out of big enterprise data center conversations. Enterprise tools are far too ex…