Applications

The Best Way to Make Your Application Faster

07/01/20 There are two easy ways to make your cloud application faster and they’re homonyms; cash being the first and cache being the second. (Sorry, but not sorry, for the dad jok…

Developers Are Not Building Shiny New Things

06/26/20 Some, maybe. But not most. Look, I have this theory. I also have data. And as with most stories in my life, it all starts with a trip to Las Vegas. In 2017, I attended my …

Three Ways Federal Agencies Can Manage and Secure Their Hybrid Data Centers

06/23/20 As hybrid environments become more popular, federal IT teams are faced with managing and securing their on-premises and cloud infrastructures, while minimizing costs—and t…

DOD’s Cloud Strategy Aids Information Dominance

05/19/20 The DOD cloud strategy recognizes the department’s disjointed and siloed systems have negatively impacted the effectiveness of warfighters, decision makers and staff. Acco…

Digital Transformation – Simplified

05/18/20 Now, here’s the thing—digital transformation is such a broad term, you probably could put most of your IT projects under it. Since it’s become such a hot topic, all IT ven…

The Importance of Applications for Business Success

05/17/20 In developed economies, people who don’t use information technology are rare. Organizations not utterly reliant on IT are virtually unheard of. Everything is an app, and a…

How Ops Teams Can Leverage APM to Meet Modern Requirements

05/16/20 Many components of cloud and SaaS technology are incredibly useful, but the hairball of hybrid IT is anything but. And the cross-hairs of complexity are firmly centered in…

Getting “Cloud Smart” Requires Focus on Security, Procurement, and Workforce Training

05/12/20 The federal government’s 2019 Federal Cloud Computing Strategy — Cloud Smart calls for improvements in security, procurement and the workforce. Let’s look at each of the t…

Becoming Hybrid: Executing the Migration

05/11/20 The day has finally come. We’ve potentially ventured out of our comfort zone to collect information on business strategy and requirements from the leaders in our company. …

The Hybrid APM You Need and Deserve

05/09/20 Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) hosted applications, and custom apps: Historically, application performance management (APM) cov…

SolarWinds x Cloud Field Day 7

05/01/20 Cloud Field Day, hosted by Gestalt IT, is an invite-only, live-streamed technical meeting focused on the impact of cloud on enterprise IT. Held over 2-3 days, the event br…

Becoming Hybrid: Selecting a Cloud Platform

04/29/20 All right, this is where things start to get more fun. To this point we’ve done a lot of talking about things NOT cloud platform related, including requirements gathering …