Is the SaaS Era Coming to an End?

The Software as a Service (SaaS) era is ending—at least, that’s what…

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Are You “Flying Blind?”

Would you travel on an airplane if the flight crew were “flying blind?” What does it mean to be “flying blind?” Freedictionary.com defines it as “to do something based on…

Public Cloud – To Migrate or Not: That is the Question

Public clouds provide enormous scale and elasticity. Combined with a consumption-based model and instant deployment methodologies, they provide a platform that is extremely agile and avoids locking of precious capital.…

Real World Experiences of Hybrid IT

Over the coming weeks, I will be writing a series of posts on my varied experiences with hybrid IT. These experiences come from working on countless projects over the last…

How Business Leaders Can Put the “Dev” Back in DevOps

The trouble with troubleshooting? When it’s the No. 1 activity on which tech professionals spend their time, there’s little of it left for development and innovation. As business and technology…

IT Operations: Coping with Cloud

You’ll find no shortage of blog posts and thought pieces about how cloud computing has forever changed the IT landscape. The topic is usually addressed in an “adapt or die”…

Transforming Traditional ITIL Into Agile ITIL

Keeping your ITSM efforts in front of the rapid changes, both within and outside of your organization can be even more challenging if you steadfastly hang on to rigid frameworks.

How to Clean Dirty Data – The Life of a Data Janitor

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my decades as a data professional, it’s this: Things aren’t what you think they are. Data’s ultimate purpose is to drive decisions. But our…

Your ORM and SELECT FOR UPDATE

If you use a programming language framework such as Django or Ruby on Rails, chances are you use an ORM to help you construct queries. What’s an ORM? If you’re…

Moving Toward More Proactive Cybersecurity

As the cyberlandscape continues to evolve, so do the methods of attack used by cybercriminals. And it isn’t just outsiders you have to worry about; insiders can be responsible for…

ITIL 4 Update Launch is Almost Here

Common criticisms of ITIL's shortcomings have led to the creation of other frameworks that attempt to either replace ITIL or complement its application, depending on the IT context.