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The Harsh Realities of Working From Home

07/15/20 To the companies who’ve practiced remote work for years or are solely online, congrats! You’re probably thriving in this environment. But as IT practitioners we need to ac…

Supporting a Mobile Workforce Across the Public Sector

07/14/20 Over five million people work in the U.K. public sector, representing over 16% of all people in paid work, according to government figures. And mobile working is a reality…

Distributed Computing – When Everyone Is Working From Home

07/13/20 We’ve officially made it past day 100 in quarantine. I hope you’ve found your groove, perfected your at-home office/workspace, learned a new language, tested six new bread…

Hunting and Gathering in the Age of COVID

07/10/20 Collecting knowledge is a large part of everyday conversations. Contributing knowledge to a conversation keeps it going and allows individuals to learn new information, de…

4 Ways to Improve Your Change Management Practices

07/09/20 Okay, good. You have a change management practice in place. You know how to define it, its benefits, how to get the process started, and how to measure its success. You al…

Agile Practices: Agility in the Unknown

07/08/20 What Does Agile Mean in Today’s World? Agility requires a certain mentality. One must constantly evaluate and adapt, and we are currently witnessing that on a global scale…

I Can Do That, Dave: Exploring AIOps

07/08/20 The movies are filthy with examples of artificial intelligence. Some, like the first Terminator, are evil. Some, like the Star Wars droids, work for the good guys. And so …

Suggested Cloud Monitoring Strategies for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

07/07/20 From the Cloud First policy established in 2010 to last year’s Cloud Smart update, it’s clear the government is driving federal agencies toward cloud computing. The strate…

Becoming Hybrid: Operating Your Cloud Environment

07/06/20 It’s a day for celebration! Our migration is complete, and our applications are now running in the cloud environment best suited to their needs. The rest of our applicatio…

Surviving IT in Snap Downturns

07/03/20 The global effect of and challenges to business in 2020 is the very definition of “unprecedented.” While large enterprises enjoy the advantage of scale to redistribute foc…

Change Templates: Your Roadmap for Necessary IT Changes

07/02/20 For some, change is something to look forward to. For others, it may be scary and anxiety-inducing. If the latter describes your organization, it may be time to rethink yo…

Is SQL Dead, Yet? NoSQL’s Rise in Popularity

07/01/20 Periodically, we hear proclamations that SQL is “dead.” For a long time, people have been commenting on how NoSQL stores are the inevitable grim reaper as far as RDBMS sys…