“In the beginning was the word” … oops, “the cloud.” Long ago “cloud” was a buzzword, especially when it was a cool word that one knew exactly what it meant.…
A storage system on its own is not useful. Sure, it can store data, but how are you going to put any data on it? Or read back the data…
One of the most interesting changes that I have observed in my career is Microsoft shifting from just being a development organization to truly becoming a DevOps team, in the…
Disasters come in many forms. I’ve walked in on my daughters when they were younger and doing craft things in their bedroom and said “this is a disaster!” When it…
When it comes to application performance management, the main focus is the application. That is the main concern for end-users. They do not care about network performance, server performance, or…
Disaster recovery can be a complicated beast to tame. If you’re attempting to recover your IT infrastructure from some kind of disaster, you’re already faced with a number of challenges.…
Malware prevention is a very hot topic due to the recent ransomware attacks that have completely crippled several companies and organizations. For most smaller companies, being able to hire a…
Data management is one of the aspects of information technology that is regularly overlooked, but with the explosion of data in recent years and the growth of data only accelerating,…
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…
“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…
