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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…

The Best Way to Make Your Application Faster

07/01/20 There are two easy ways to make your cloud application faster and they’re homonyms; cash being the first and cache being the second. (Sorry, but not sorry, for the dad jok…

Audit Trails Are Critical for Tracking Network Activity

06/30/20 As networks become more distributed and complex, it’s becoming ever more challenging for IT professionals to track all the events happening on their networks. Still, it’s …

Developers Are Not Building Shiny New Things

06/26/20 Some, maybe. But not most. Look, I have this theory. I also have data. And as with most stories in my life, it all starts with a trip to Las Vegas. In 2017, I attended my …

Panel: The Future of IT Service Management

06/25/20 IT service management (ITSM) has evolved into a much broader discipline than just delivering IT services to the business. It’s grown beyond the IT department and become an…

How Automation Benefits IT Operations: Good Automation Things Come in Threes

06/24/20 IT professionals talk about automation… sometimes ad nauseum. We generally understand its value, even if we’re tribally divided by the specifics of its application. For ci…