I’ve written before about the disappearing DBA, and how the database administration role itself is evolving. I believe the days of tuning indexes are ending, one page at a time. Cloud database services such as AWS RDS and Azure SQL Database are accelerating this …
Over the past few years, several critical cybersecurity frameworks have been introduced to help agency IT professionals detect and deter stealthy intruders. These include the Cyber Threat Framework (CTF), the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), and the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) …
This post is part one of two, taking an atypical look at the public cloud and why you may or may not want to leverage it. Did you know AWS came about partly because Amazon realized they could recognize cost efficiencies within their own …
In the second part of our National Cybersecurity Awareness Month series, Colin Knox offers two key tips to help you prevent insider attacks and police data and systems access. We’re two weeks into National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Last week, Brandon Shopp focused on the …
During this series, we’ve looked at virtualization’s past, the challenges it has created, and how its evolution will allow it to continue to play a part in infrastructure delivery in the future. In this final part, I’d like to draw these strands together and share …
This blog series has been all about taking a big step back and reviewing your ecosystem. What do you need to achieve? What are the organization’s goals and mandates? What assets are in play? Are best practices and industry recommendations in place? Am I …
A recent federal cybersecurity survey by SolarWinds found federal IT professionals feel threats posed by careless or malicious insiders or foreign governments are at an all-time high. Worse, hackers aren’t necessarily doing technical gymnastics to navigate through firewalls or network defenses. Instead, they’re favoring …
vSphere, which many consider to be the flagship product of VMware, is virtualization software with the vCenter management software and its ESXi hypervisor. vSphere is available in three different licenses: vSphere Standard, vSphere Enterprise Plus, and vSphere Platinum. Each comes with a different cost …
Brandon Shopp expands on his two tips for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month to help you provide the best security support you can to your users. On October 31, we’ll celebrate Halloween. Originally, Halloween stemmed from a Celtic tradition called Samhain, where celebrants wore costumes …
Everyone’s talking about artificial intelligence, bots, and digital transformation, but what do IT pros in the trenches actually think when it comes to the trends and technologies that are likely coming to an office near you? The results may surprise you. We surveyed* global …
