A well-functioning IT infrastructure and application fleet is one of the core elements to powering a successful modern business. But how can we ensure it’s indeed well-functioning? Continuous monitoring is one of the methods to ensure an infrastructure setup is managed successfully.

Planning a hybrid application migration? There’s plenty to deal with already, and now your manager wants to know—how are you going to make sure that the migration is a success? The secret is to take a subjective judgment and turn it into an objective one. As you probably know, there is no way that you can guarantee a problem-free migration. Don’t leave it up solely to how your boss or anyone else feels about the migration.

One of the business consequences from the pandemic—increased remote working—is causing technology challenges across most industries, including the public sector. The pandemic interrupted “business as usual” and caused a spike in the need to work remotely. As a result, applications organizations once took for granted consequently became mission critical.

A website is an essential part of your organization’s online presence, and it’s crucial to attract, engage, and convert visitors into customers. Accordingly, the imperative is to maintain a reliable website capable of loading quickly and offering a seamless experience to its visitors. Otherwise, a suboptimally maintained website can badly affect user engagement, deteriorate reputation, and lead to revenue loss.

A website is an essential part of your organization’s online presence, and it’s crucial to attract, engage, and convert visitors into customers. Accordingly, the imperative is to maintain a reliable website capable of loading quickly and offering a seamless experience to its visitors. Otherwise, a suboptimally maintained website can badly affect user engagement, deteriorate reputation, and lead to revenue loss.

On one hand, organizations are increasingly relying on web applications to engage customers and deliver value across multiple touchpoints. On the other hand, the complexity of web application environments has intensified significantly due to the prevalence of microservices architecture, content delivery networks (CDNs), and load balancing, among others. At the same time, end users expect a web application to be highly responsive, available around the clock, and accessible from anywhere on any device.

One of the most common performance problems with SQL Server databases in production is the blocking of queries, which happens because database resources are locked. Understanding why locking happens is just half the battle. Being able to resolve locking, which will resolve blocking issues as well, is the second half.

Log monitoring is a practice used by IT administrators to organize, analyze, and understand a network’s performance. All network devices, including applications and hardware, create logs as they perform operations. Logs are like a device’s diary—they record every event and its critical information like user IP address, date and time, request time, and more.

We’ve reviewed the year that was, how business big and small had to fast forward their digital transformation to accommodate remote work and keep their businesses in business. Some IT leaders have said because of the pandemic, they were able to expedite digitalization and digital transformation within their organizations. Efforts previously envisioned to take months or years were moved forward and achieved in a matter of weeks.

As the past year has shown, cloud computing has proved a vital service for K–12 public schools. It’s enabled online learning during a time of critical need, and the schools who have embraced cloud adoption have thrived and will continue to do so. Let’s look at the ways the cloud is changing public school education today—and some of the common bumps administrators and IT teams should avoid along the way.