The Software as a Service (SaaS) era is ending—at least, that’s what…
Great! You’ve made the decision to migrate to the cloud. What should be the first step towards that goal? The answer is: defining a cloud migration team that understands the…
Many years ago, at Louisiana State University (LSU), I taught the basics of evolution as part of a class on learning and behavior. The concepts behind evolution started, of course,…
How new models could potentially shake up the future of IT While technology innovation has changed the world, the truth is the same big vendors have been running the same…
When it comes to getting something done in IT, the question of “How?” can be overwhelming. There are many different solutions on the market to achieve our data center monitoring…
With SolarWinds, IT pros are discovering a smarter way to manage apps, servers, databases, and hybrid clouds. The shift starts here. It can be a struggle to find the right…
When you hire someone, you expect them to care about your business. You want them to take care of your intellectual property and data. Unfortunately, not everyone has the best…
My previous post provided a short introduction to the series. In this post, I’m going to be focusing on public cloud. I’ll cover my day-to-day experiences in using the major…
There’s an important heuristic in database indexing that I call the left-prefix rule. It helps you understand whether the database will be able to make the best use of a…
Learn why your IT strategy should shift focus and include customer experience and employee service management techniques.
Think about the last time you had an outage or service interruption in your IT environment. When did you first discover the outage? How long had it been going on?…
