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IT Alerting Best Practices: Notification Routing for IT Ops

02/01/19 It’s easy to overlook the next step of your monitoring deployment: notifications. Usually, one of two things will happen: You get too many alerts, and subsequently turn of…

The DevOps Slide: Shift to the Left

01/31/19 A culture of collaborative and continuous learning. Transparent knowledge sharing. Agile methods and automation as a means of accelerating innovation. Building good softwa…

What IT Service Management Pros Should Know About CX (Customer Experience)

01/31/19 Discover key concepts of integrating customer experience (CX) management into your IT service management strategy and how it can improve your employee services. The post W…

The Iron Triangle of Sorting, Indexing, and Temporary Storage

01/30/19 Databases have a kind of iron triangle for specific types of query plans, whereby they can pick between two out of three things but can’t get all three of them. (The “iron…

Head in the Sand About Cloud: Part 1

01/30/19 A recent argument on Twitter (“What?!” I can hear you exclaim, “People disagree on Twitter? This cannot be true!”) highlighted for me just how persistent people can be in …

Improving IT Security in a World Filled With Hackers

01/29/19 With hacker attacks taking place every thirty-nine seconds, ensuring your IT strategy has a bulletproof plan for IT security is crucial. The post Improving IT Security in …

Why Move to the Cloud? Benefits of the Ever-Onward Advancement of Hybrid IT

01/29/19 Why Cloud? I remember being asked this exact question during a technical presentation I got drafted into very last minute with a well-known, high street brand. During the …

What Is Concurrency in a Database?

01/28/19 Databases are confusing! Not only are they complicated bits of software, but database jargon is really complicated. Part of this comes from the number of words with multip…

Are You “Flying Blind?”

01/28/19 Would you travel on an airplane if the flight crew were “flying blind?” What does it mean to be “flying blind?” Freedictionary.com defines it as “to do something based on …

Public Cloud – To Migrate or Not: That is the Question

01/28/19 Public clouds provide enormous scale and elasticity. Combined with a consumption-based model and instant deployment methodologies, they provide a platform that is extremel…

Real World Experiences of Hybrid IT

01/25/19 Over the coming weeks, I will be writing a series of posts on my varied experiences with hybrid IT. These experiences come from working on countless projects over the last…

How Business Leaders Can Put the “Dev” Back in DevOps

01/25/19 The trouble with troubleshooting? When it’s the No. 1 activity on which tech professionals spend their time, there’s little of it left for development and innovation. As b…