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Bimodal IT vs. Hybrid IT: What’s the Best Approach?
IT departments have always been an important part of the business. Critical business models rely on systems managed by IT. Businesses have been using IT for years, but IT is…
How to Prevent Lock-In for DevOps Tooling
We’ve talked about a lot in this series about DevOps tooling: Start Your DevOps Journey by Looking at the Value You Add Why Choosing a One-Size-Fits-All Solution Won’t Work How…
Tips for Building a Battle-Hardened Network
The U.S. Army is leading the charge on the military’s multidomain battle concept—but will federal IT networks enable this initiative or inhibit it? The network is critical to the Army’s…
Logs, Logs, and More Logs: Why You Need SIEM and How to Make It More Effective
Four score and one post ago, we talked about Baltimore’s beleaguered IT department, which is in the throes of a ransomware-related recovery. Complicating the recovery mission is the fact that…
Having and Testing Backups is Key to Running Systems
The title of this post says it all. In IT, we’ve said for years you need to take and test backups regularly to ensure your systems are being backed up…
3 Reasons to Choose a Hybrid Cloud
The hybrid cloud makes everything better. It’s helping drive down costs, it’s making the software we use to run our data centers easier, and it’s pushing innovation. The public cloud…
How to Prevent Tool Sprawl in Your DevOps Toolchain
We put in all this work to create a fully customized toolchain tailored to your situation. Great! I bet you’re happy you can change small bits and pieces of your…
Licensing Monitoring Tools: What Types of Models There Are and When Each Could Be a Good Fit
This is a continuation of one of my previous blog posts, Which Infrastructure Monitoring Tools Are Right for You? On-Premises vs. SaaS, where I talked about the considerations and benefits of…
The Story Patching Tells
In post #3 of this information security series, let’s cover one of the essential components in an organization’s defense strategy: their approach to patching systems. Everywhere an Attack When did…
Which Infrastructure Monitoring Tools Are Right for You? On-Premises vs. SaaS
If, like me, you believe we’re living in a hybrid IT world when it comes to workload placement, then it would make sense to also consider a hybrid approach when…
