This is the first of a five-part series on HCI. I hope you enjoy and this prompts discussion. Please feel free to reach out to me via Twitter at @MBLeib.…
Looking back across the months since SysAdmin Day 2018, it’s obvious we’re all dealing with a remarkably different (in some ways exciting, in others, horrifying) IT landscape than the one…
Optimizing application performance has more to do with the entire application environment than it does with the individual application. It’s critical for federal IT pros to be able to see…
All aboard the hype train—departing soon! I think most people love to have the latest and greatest thing. Lines outside of Apple stores waiting for each new product is proof…
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…
The bigger the project, the more risk there is. Any decent-sized project needs a professional project manager to run it and help mitigate that risk. When it comes to big…
This week’s Facebook outage is in the news right now, and it’s inevitable that some people are going to rush to post their hot-as-the-surface-of-the-sun takes. Thankfully, this blog is not…
Many organizations grow each year in business scope and footprint. When I say footprint, it’s not merely the size of the organization, but the number of devices, hardware, and other…
Cost plays a factor in most IT decisions. Whether the costs are hardware- or software-related, understanding how the tool’s cost will affect the bottom line is important. Typically, it’s the engineer’s…
Well, here we are. Finally, on the last post of this series. If you have not been following along, you can find the previous posts: part one, part two, part three, part four, and part…
