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How Emerging Technologies Influence State Government Staffing Needs

02/01/21 Emerging technologies impact many areas of an organization, but their impact on staffing is often overlooked. It would be ideal for public sector organizations, and state …

How to Futureproof IT Environments Without Going Into Technical Debt

01/25/21 Federal IT pros are experts at using quick fixes to keep costs down and save time, often because there’s no other option. They essentially leap from crisis to crisis inste…

Monitoring for Managers – What You Need to Know to Sound Like a Monitoring Expert

01/20/21 We released a survey asking managers what questions they had for their teams to help them better understand monitoring as a whole and to better relate to their teams. Sola…

How Digital Transformation Is Changing the Role of the Government CIO

12/07/20 Under the leadership of innovative CIOs—Chief Information Officers—the public sector is blazing new trails and focusing on things like digital transformation to provide co…

Your IT Life Coach for Monitoring

11/30/20 Your Monitoring IT Life Coach #1: Know the Basics The old saying about a hammer and a nail is as true here as it is anywhere else in IT. If the only technique you know is …

The Importance of Hardware Health Monitoring

11/23/20 A networking problem can come from almost any fault within the infrastructure, whether it’s a bandwidth bottleneck, configuration issues, or a faulty networking component.…

SD-WAN – What, How, and Why It’s Got Your Number

11/20/20 Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) is right in the middle of major technology trends. But the shift from physical to software-defined networks has left many pe…

The Technology Companies Think They Can Live Without (and Why They’re Wrong)

11/17/20 When the value is obvious, most companies are willing to invest in tools to help employees get their job done better. But over the course of my career, I’ve noticed a few …

The Perfect World (Without Outages)

10/28/20 Heaven on Earth would be a world with no outages. No slow load times. No failed switches or routers. No bandwidth issues. Just peace and quiet. But if nothing were to go w…

How Network Telemetry Is Becoming the New Normal

10/19/20 The work being done on federal, state, and local levels to ensure the health of society during and post-COVID-19 will be driven by the Internet of Things (IoT). From conta…

Tried and True Tech Tips

10/16/20 Anyone who’s worked in IT knows a great deal of the day-to-day work doesn’t come down to one secret trick—the job consists mainly of stringing together hard-won wisdom and…

Three Ways to Help the Digital Air Force Achieve Takeoff

10/12/20 The Digital Air Force Initiative is an effort to leverage data and applications at the edge, along with artificial intelligence and machine learning, to “field a 21st Cent…