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Secure Your IT Assets for an Optimal Return

We’ve officially entered everyone’s favorite time of year—tax season. You can find me rifling through the stack of mail and records I’ve been hoarding over the past year, while my husband calmly reviews his neatly archived digital documents. Completing your tax return forces you to review all your fiscal actions from the past year, which can be made easier with secure digital tracking, tagging, and maintenance along the way.

Conquering the Next Normal: Monitoring Techniques to Keep Up With the Pace of Change in 2021

In 2020, IT pros across the globe had to make snap decisions to keep the business running. Now, organizations are revisiting those decisions, ensuring they work as expected and adjusting as needed. The unavoidable truth is the only way to know how things are operating now is to monitor them. The question in the mind of many IT practitioners is whether monitoring solutions are up to the task of encompassing the vast array of technical solutions organizations embraced in the last year.

How to Be the Hero (Company) They Need AND Want (To Work At)

If you’re like most companies, you made many changes to your business throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. You may have adopted new tools, implemented new processes, or completely changed the way your business runs. Your workforce has likely gone fully remote—at least for a while—which requires more tools and processes to support remote employees.
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The Unprecedented Transformation of IT Goals in 2020

At the end of 2019, IT pros were making bold predictions about what 2020 would hold. But they weren't bold enough-time makes fools of us all, and hot takes fizzled rather than sizzled. From the continued evolution of smart devices and blockchain's continued rise in prominence to the falling price of compute workloads, there was rational thinking behind the predictions made at the end of 2019.

Consolidate Knowledge Base Articles from Multiple Departments in 5 Steps

After adopting foundational practices of knowledge management many organizations aim to expand this practice outside of IT. While comprehensive knowledge management is an effective way to connect employees to solutions from multiple departments, maintenance can be a major challenge. This post will dive a little deeper into how to consolidate knowledge base articles from multiple departments.

Integrating Logging into CI/CD

In my experience, pipeline monitoring and management is traditionally either left for the last developer who deployed, or unmonitored entirely. This lack of centralized monitoring and production-level resiliency can lead to significant development delays or even bring pipeline and train deliveries to a grinding halt. But we can do better.

SQL Server Problems? Try These Tips First

When SQL Server is having performance issues, giving you error messages, or just running slowly, you need to figure out the root cause of the problem before making any changes. Don’t jump to conclusions—make sure you get a big-picture view of the issue. Start with these five troubleshooting tips to optimize your SQL Server performance.

Leveraging APM to Conquer Custom App Management Troubles

Though you might use custom-made apps for many reasons, there’s only one reason you deploy them: off-the-shelf solutions just can’t get the job done. Whenever operations are too complex for a commercial application already in place or whenever a new kind of digital business is launched, a custom app is necessary. This is true no matter what the business model is.

How Eliminating Network Choke Points Can Help the DoD Plan for the Next Wave of the Pandemic

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, military IT leaders raced to expand network capacity and upgrade infrastructure to ensure it could meet their mission-critical workloads and support telework. Their successful efforts have established a proof of their own abilities to adapt and scale their networks with speed and agility. As more DoD personnel telework and government and home networks are pushed to the max, here are three things they must consider as plans for the impact on IT systems.