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IT: The Employee Engagement Department — SolarWinds TechPod 022

01/28/20 What is employee engagement and what does it have to do with IT? Andrew Eardley-Day, ITSM system administrator for Betfred, and Joey Brown, product manager for SolarWinds …

New Laws Alone Won’t Be Enough to Secure IoT Devices

01/28/20 Security concerns over the Internet of Things (IoT) are growing, and federal and state lawmakers are taking action. First, the U.S. Senate introduced the Internet of Thing…

Don’t Shut Your Pi-Hole, Monitor It! (The Sequel)

01/27/20 Back in October, 2019, I shared my love of both Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.org/) devices and the Pi-Hole (https://pi-hole.net/) software; and showed how—with a …

6 Types of IT Assets Your CMDB Should Track

01/23/20 IT asset management (ITAM) and configuration management database (CMDB) are critical components of a service desk, playing a key role in how inventory within an organizati…

Our Cloud Bill Is What?!—Battle of the Clouds Series

01/22/20 Submitted for your approval; a story of cloud horrors. One of performance issues impacting production. Where monthly cloud billing began spiraling out of control. The foll…

Three Ways the Department of Defense Can Plug Security Holes

01/21/20 An early 2019 report from the Defense Department Officer of Inspector General revealed how difficult it’s been for federal agencies to stem the tide of cybersecurity threa…

Why Machine Learning Matters

01/20/20 While there are many silly depictions of machine learning and artificial intelligence throughout Hollywood, its reality delivers significant benefits. Administrators today…

Old Tech, New Name?

01/17/20 The marketing machines of today often paint new technologies to suggest they’re the best thing since sliced bread. Sometimes though, the new products are just a rehash of …

2020 Vision—What Does the Future Hold for DevOps?

01/15/20 2019 was busy year for DevOps as measured by the events held on the topic. Whether it be DevOps days around the globe, DockerCon, DevOps Enterprise Summits, KubeCon, or Cl…

Modernizing Security to Protect Next-Generation Federal Networks

01/14/20 As agencies across the federal government modernize their networks to include and accommodate the newest technologies such as cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT), feder…

ITSM: The 4 Wins of Lean

01/13/20 Part 1 of this series introduced IT Service Management (ITSM) and a few of the adaptable frameworks available to fit the needs of an organization. This post focuses on the…

MySQL Query Performance Statistics In The Performance Schema

01/12/20 Quite some time ago, when we added the ability to monitor MySQL query performance statistics from MySQL’s PERFORMANCESCHEMA, we learned a number of valuable lessons, still…