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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…

How AI Is Transforming the Data Center

01/10/20 There have been so many changes in data center technology in the past 10 years, it’s hard to keep up at times. We’ve gone from a traditional server/storage/networking stac…

Q&A: Breaking Down IT Silos

01/09/20 One of the most frustrating challenges in IT, historically, is working within silos. Given today’s complexity and specialization throughout IT, it’s more important than ev…

5 Ansible Playbook Steps to Success

01/08/20 There are many configuration management, deployment, and orchestration tools available, ranging from open-source tools to automation engines. Ansible is one such software …

Federal IT Pros Optimistic About Security, but Insider Threats Remain a Challenge

01/07/20 Federal IT professionals feel threats posed by careless or malicious insiders and foreign governments are at an all-time high, yet network administrators and security mana…

You Too Can Stink at Information Security!

01/06/20 “Security? We don’t need no stinking security!” I’ve actually heard a CTO utter words this effect. If you subscribe to a similar mindset, here are five ways you too can st…