SolarWinds Joins Forces With Turn/River Capital

SolarWinds has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Turn/River…

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Assessing the Need for Cloud Certifications

As the demand for cloud continues to grow, so does the demand for hiring the best engineers who understand how to manage and leverage public cloud services. Earlier this month,…

Do You Need an On-Prem Storage Vault?

Data protection has traditionally involved an on-prem storage vault, but as data protection solutions evolve, this requirement is becoming increasingly optional. On-prem storage vaults exist because if you do away…

You Are Here – Making Sense of Modern InfoSec

Now that we all carry supercomputers complete with real-time GPS mapping in our pockets, a reference to physical maps may feel a bit antiquated. You know the ones I’m talking…

Website Downtime and What to Do About It

Website downtime, while most obvious when the entire site goes down, is often hidden in backend issues that affect the usability of the site, while preserving the site’s general appearance.

Not Another AI Post…

Modern network and systems engineers have a lot to deal with. Things like overlapping roles, constantly changing client devices, and new applications popping up daily create headaches beyond comprehension. The…

What is ESM? Hint: It’s Not What You’ve Been Told

In order to understand the enterprise service management framework, it may be helpful to think of it more as “Employee Service Management.”

Things That Merit Consideration During Service Desk Implementation

The route to successful integration, now more than ever, lies in building and implementing a comprehensive and employee-focused service management strategy.

A Million Little Things: Global Baselines

Baselines are one of my favorite topics, as setting them is one of the most important things you can do when measuring data. It should underpin everything that you do,…

Customer Experience Guide – How Managing your IT Help Desk Can Pay Dividends

Knowing how to talk to customers isn’t necessarily something that can be programmed into your team, or an innate underlying skill that they will default to in every situation.  

The Problem of Complexity in Modern Backup Software

Data protection is a complicated endeavor. This is largely because IT is a complicated endeavor, and data protection involves backing up all the data from existing IT deployments while maintaining…