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Preparing Defense Networks for Cyberattacks

01/09/18 Here’s an interesting article from my colleague, Joe Kim, in which he argues that military IT professionals can and should adopt a more proactive approach to combating cyb…

Monitoring Cloud from On-Prem

01/09/18 The use of cloud technology and services–especially public cloud–has become nearly ubiquitous. For example, it has made its way into even the most conservative organizatio…

Everything I Needed To Know About IT I Learned From Logan (Part Three)

01/08/18 (This is the third part of a series. You can find Part One here and Part Two here.) It behooves me to remind you that there are many spoilers beyond this point. If you hav…

2017 Year in Review for SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

01/04/18 It’s easy to observe (pun intended) in the rear-view mirror. Hindsight bias aside, 2017 was a big year for SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) and our customers!…

How Do You Take the Service Desk Beyond IT?

01/04/18 What many organizations don’t realize is that every department is a service provider to another in some way -- so why aren’t we using a service management solution across …

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…

New in Datadog: Organize your dashboards with lists

This Datadog feature now allows users to track changes made to dashboards and notebooks with a comprehensive version history. This enables easy rollback to previous versions, ident…

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-…