Monitoring and Observability

After you’ve installed your new storage systems and migrated your data onto them, life slows down a bit. Freshly installed systems shouldn’t throw any hardware errors in the first stages…

Hybrid IT presents SecOps challenges   The Department of Defense (DoD) has long been at the tip of the spear when it comes to successfully melding IT security and operations…

“The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.” C.A.R. Hoare, Turing Award lecture.   Software and computers in general are inherently dynamic and not of a state…

“Once upon a time, there was a little network…”   No there wasn’t. Your network was never little, or if it was, it didn’t stay that way for long. Corporate…

Visualization of technologies was always in the imagination or drawn out by hand until we were able to incorporate tools like Visio® to help with mapping. At that point, we…

How to use network configuration, change, and compliance management (NCCCM) and other monitoring software in response to an actual security breach. If you have not read part one, I would suggest that…

Why network configuration, change, and compliance management (NCCCM) is a must Inspired by former Citibank employee sentencing We’ve all heard horror stories about the disgruntled employee who pillages the office supply…

Patch management at any sort of scale has always been a mundane and time-consuming task that most administrators would like to avoid at all costs. With the proliferation of DevOps…

Public cloud providers have greatly simplified the process of creating a backup, but the challenge has always been managing that at scale with things like policies for retention or simple…

One of the biggest draws of the public cloud includes services like managed Kubernetes or server-less functions. Managed services like these enable IT organizations to consume higher-level services, which allow…