Infrastructure

What Is Hyperconverged Infrastructure and How HCI Works

08/05/19 This is the first of a five-part series on HCI. I hope you enjoy and this prompts discussion. Please feel free to reach out to me via Twitter at @MBLeib. What Is Hyperconv…

What Makes a Good Project Manager? Why a Big Project Without a Great PM Is Bound to Fail

06/07/19 The bigger the project, the more risk there is. Any decent-sized project needs a professional project manager to run it and help mitigate that risk. When it comes to big p…

It’s 2 a.m., Do You Know Where Your Data Is?

08/29/18 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?” This…

Defining an SLO – Understanding Business Needs

06/20/18 Building a monitoring and alerting system should always be driven by your business needs. This is an ongoing debate between the IT organization–which tends to focus on gra…

Business Services and their Challenges in Complex Environments

01/24/18 Business services and infrastructure services have divergent interests and requirements: business services are not focusing on IT. They may leverage IT, but their role is …

Understanding your SQL Server Monitoring: Part 2 CPU

02/05/16 Welcome back. Last time we met, I reiterated the importance of a good SQL Server monitoring solution, and not just monitoring, but monitoring intelligently. We also went o…

Understanding your SQL Server Monitoring: Part 1 Storage

02/05/16 As IT professionals, our main mission is to keep applications running successfully. Each application is judged by end-users, using different factors. Exchange is considere…

All Data is Not Created Equal

01/13/16 This year, consider spending more time protecting the vast bytes that make up your corporate data. As an IT or security professional, do you know how much data your organi…

There’s A Script for That

12/23/15 If there’s a chance to save time by using scripts or automation tools, I always take it. Over the years I’ve found that there are a set of common themes associated with th…

Operations vs. Engineering Tools

11/03/15 Whether your IT operation is a small-scale endeavor or a web-scale enterprise, systems monitoring plays a critical role in the delivery of your services. The ability to qu…