The Legacy IT Pro
01/04/18 In the fast-paced world of IT, can you afford to be a legacy IT pro? This is a concern for many, which makes it worth examining. IT functions have been clearly separated s…
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Service Asset and Configuration Management (SACM): An Overview
01/02/18 SACM helps leadership understand what they own in terms of assets and how a change in configuration affects other assets, which helps an organization deliver effective ser…
Is Collaboration Something I Should be Thinking About?
12/21/17 Over the past few years, we have seen an ever-changing landscape when it comes to technology. When I first started in IT, my company decided on IBM for everything. Servers…
Landing on a Secure File Sharing Solution
12/20/17 Back in October, I wrote about Shadow IT and how some users are turning to popular file sharing applications like Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive to get their work don…
Can I Deliver Value through Responsiveness and Efficiency?
12/20/17 I don’t know how many times in the past 15 years I have heard people say, “My computers running slow! I need an upgrade.” Everyone, even your colleagues in the IT departme…
Top 7 Things Every DBA Should Do Before They Go On Holiday
12/19/17 Everybody wants to take a relaxing holiday from time to time, whether you are a veteran DBA standing watch over million dollar mission-critical database systems or a jack-…
Everything I Needed To Know About IT I Learned From Logan (Part Two)
12/18/17 (This is the second part of a series. You can find Part One here.) It behooves me to remind you that there are many spoilers beyond this point. If you haven’t seen the mov…
DevOps Wrap-Up
12/15/17 Welcome to the final post in my series on DevOps. If you’ve been following along, you know the content generated several questions. In this post, I will consolidate those …
The Future is Always Bright
12/15/17 In my last couple of posts, I’ve tried to paint a picture of the past and present of database management and monitoring. We’ve seen that good database performance has ever…
Is Compliance Something I Should Be Thinking About?
12/15/17 Over the past 12 months, I’ve heard the word “compliance” thrown around quite a bit. Only now does compliance depend on what department or industry you are in. From ISO to…
Committed To Security: SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor and SOC 2 Type 1
12/13/17 Security has always been a priority at SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM), and we have architected and built our product for security from the beginning, frequ…
The Only Source of Knowledge is Experience…
12/06/17 The title of this post is a quote that might be (or not be) from Albert Einstein. I first thought the title of the post would be something like: “why root cause analysis i…