How TV Viewership Is Like Application Monitoring
09/07/18 Have you ever read about TV ratings? Almost every person that watches TV has heard of the ratings produced by the Nielsen Media Research group. These statistics shape how …
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ITIL v3 Suggested Change Management KPIs
09/06/18 Key performance indicators (KPI) are values that every business can measure and track – values that show the effectiveness of your performance as an organization toward yo…
Databases 101 – Factors to Consider When Choosing a Database
09/06/18 In part one of this series, we discussed the different types of databases available on the market today. In part two, we discussed how to choose the right database for you…
Data Protection: Culture, Tools, People, and Roles
09/06/18 In my previous posts about Building a Culture of Data Protection (Overview, Development, Features, Expectations), I covered the background of building a culture. In this p…
What Makes a Thought Leader?
09/05/18 What do The Guru, The Expert, The Maven, The Trailblazer, The Leading Light, The Practice Leader, The Heavyweight, The Opinion Shaper, and The Influencer all have in commo…
Advantages of Capacity Management
08/31/18 The advantages of capacity management are plentiful. Simply put, IT capacity management is an ideal arrived at through the construction of a set of processes and monitorin…
The Hidden Costs of Backup Software
08/31/18 The focus of data protection has changed. Backups and data recovery used to exist primarily to protect against human error or natural disaster. The focus was on recovering…
Cross-Referencing Alarms: Network Security Monitoring and Network Outage Notifications
08/30/18 As anyone that has run a network of any size has surely experienced, with one alert, there is typically (but not always) a deeper issue that may or may not generate furthe…
How IT Affects Your Customer Experience Strategy (And Bottom Line)
08/29/18 For the sake of your customers, and for the sake of all your organization’s stakeholders (both internal, and external) it’s crucial to understand how IT and ITSM affects y…
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…
Protection Methods – The Art of Data Analytics
08/28/18 The previous blog reviewed some guidelines that laid the foundation for security through understanding your environment and planning how elements within that environment a…
Application Mapping: Turn-by-Turn for Your Data Center
08/24/18 When you go on a trip somewhere, you always take a map. When I was growing up, that map came in the form of a road atlas that was bigger than I was. I remember spending ho…