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Gamify Work: How to Apply Gaming Skills to Your Day Job (Part 2)

04/27/21 In my last Gamify Work post, I brought up the idea that you can translate skills from gaming to tech. All roles can benefit from the skills you use in everyday gaming. If …

Gamify Work: How to Apply Gaming Skills to Your Day Job (Part 1)

04/16/21 Do you like to play video games like I do? Recently, I discussed using skills taken from gaming to level up your career. Once I started thinking about the skills you pick …

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Multipath World

04/13/21 Picture a network—any enterprise network. What do you see? In almost every case, in almost every environment, you’ll find hubs and spokes of hubs and spokes all the way do…

IT Infrastructure Management Tools Help Transform the IT Department

04/07/21 IT is ever-changing. The underlying technology demands change, but even more important is the change of the role of information technology itself. For a long time, the IT …

How to Be the Hero (Company) They Need AND Want (To Work At)

04/02/21 If you’re like most companies, you made many changes to your business throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. You may have adopted new tools, implemented new processes, or compl…

How Eliminating Network Choke Points Can Help the DoD Plan for the Next Wave of the Pandemic

03/29/21 At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, military IT leaders raced to expand network capacity and upgrade infrastructure to ensure it could meet their mission-critical workl…

Enterprise IT Cost Containment—A Series

03/23/21 H.L. Mencken once famously wrote, “…there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” More than just a pithy way to frame the entir…

Tweaking Your Monitoring Strategy for a Seamless End-User Experience

03/15/21 Technology and end users have an almost dichotomous relationship; as technology gets more complex, end users expect a more seamless experience. At the same time, end users…

Year of Yes in Tech

03/05/21 Recently, I finished reading Shonda Rhimes’ “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person.” I found it inspiring in several ways and it instan…

Project Management as a Critical Skillset

03/01/21 Public sector IT departments have undergone sweeping modernization efforts, from virtualization and mobility to cloud computing and digital transformation. At the same tim…

Taking an API-First Approach to Network Management

02/08/21 Application programming interfaces (APIs) allow applications to communicate, interoperate, and share information with one another. APIs have been mainstays at companies li…

Anything But Soft: The Tech Skills You’ll Need For 2021

02/03/21 Recently, I was asked to comment on “…what skills IT practitioners should plan to learn or improve as we head into 2021.” While a few of those thoughts appeared online I w…