Monitoring and Observability

Out Of Office: Health Check

02/27/18 So far in this series, we’ve covered setting expectations as well as migrating to Office 365. Now that your organization is up and running on the new platform, how do you …

Digital Experience Monitoring’s Role in Government

02/20/18 As a result, about 30% of global enterprises will implement DEM technologies or services by 2020—up from fewer than 5% today, according to market research firm Gartner®. W…

A Sysadmin’s Guide to Spaghetti Cabling: Bridging the Gap between IT Operations and Business

02/20/18 No, it’s not the latest culinary invention from a famous Italian chef: spaghetti cabling (a nice wording for cabling inferno) is a sour dish we’d rather not eat. Beyond th…

Out Of Office: Planning the Migration to Office 365

02/08/18 Back in the first post of this series we covered off the planning portion with regards to implementing Office 365. Knowing what you are aiming to achieve is critical to me…

Putting on your X-Ray Goggles to Visualize the Business Services Spectrum

02/07/18 I love watching those modern movies where IT works magically. In these movies, any average Joe with access to a computer or terminal can instantly access anything with sea…

Out Of Office: Setting Expectations for Office 365

01/31/18 For a lot of organizations, moving to Office 365 might be one of the first, or possibly biggest, migrations to a public cloud. There can be a lot of stress and work that g…

Monitoring Cloud from On-Prem

01/09/18 The use of cloud technology and services–especially public cloud–has become nearly ubiquitous. For example, it has made its way into even the most conservative organizatio…

Active Directory Monitoring

02/24/16 Active Directory, commonly known as AD, can be considered the heart of the IT infrastructure. It holds user account information, computers and servers, provides authentica…

Daily Monitoring of Microsoft Exchange

02/05/16 Email is the lifeline for almost every business in this world. When email is down businesses cannot communicate. There is loss of productivity, which could lead to dollars…

Designing a Monitoring Solution: Where Are Your Eyes?

12/21/15 Contemporary monitoring solutions are no different from any other distributed application in your environment. Even a small-scale deployment can include multiple component…

How Does your VMware Environment Look Today? A Rationale for the VOA

12/16/15 VMware® as a technology has a huge potential to sprawl. Have you created an environment for testing purposes? Have projects required a number of guest VMs to be built, but…

On Becoming a Virtualization Professional

12/14/15 I’ve been a VMware® evangelist and virtualization advocate for a decade. Even before I first started using VMware—by accident, I’ll admit—I’ve had the (dis?)advantage of w…