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Modern-day technology professionals are at a crossroads in their careers, as they seek to balance today's tech realities with tomorrow's expectations-on top of their own personal aspirations.... Read More...
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If it hasn't already (which, honestly, would be surprising), cloud is coming to your IT department. Despite the promises of some marketing materials, cloud services aren't completely "bullet-proof," nor are they one-size-fits-all solutions.... Read More...
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As technology professionals tasked with managing on-prem environments, you might habitually tune out when you hear "distributed tracing."... Read More...
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Digital transformation should be supported by highly-scalable, resilient, and responsive ‘infrastructures'. This means using a wide range of technologies to move quickly-from new development languages, to modern application architectures, to utilizing on-prem and cloud-based infrastructures, to cont... Read More...
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It's all about that base, that base, that baseline. Spectre and Meltdown are bad, and when (if?) the final fixes are available to the general public, you can bet your servers/applications are not going to perform as well as before.... Read More...
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Virtualization allows you to easily provision and grow servers, as well as run more workloads on fewer servers. Essentially, it's "do more with less." Virtualization does enable IT to run more workloads on fewer servers, but it has become too easy to provision new virtual machines (VMs), and too har... Read More...
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A look back at highlights from VMworld Las Vegas and VMworld Barcelona 2017... Read More...
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One technology again supplanted another and virtualization killed the physical server star. Did this really kill off physical servers entirely? Of course not. No more so than video killed radio. It just added a level of abstraction. Application owners no longer needed to worry about the physical har... Read More...
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For many companies, the path to the cloud can be a difficult one. In "Key Considerations for Moving Applications to the Public Cloud," I highlighted important aspects one should evaluate when transitioning to the cloud.... Read More...
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In today's world, nearly everyone is inundated with constant data streams that have to be deciphered on the fly. As a result of all of this data, some decisions are made subconsciously, while other data streams actively vie for our attention and require a deliberate thought process to make a decisio... Read More...
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As technology professionals, we live in an interruption-driven world-responding to incidents is part of the job. All our other job duties go out the window when a new issue hits the desk. Having the right information and understanding the part it plays in the organization is key to handling these in... Read More...
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The complexity of how applications are hosted and delivered has created an ever-expanding set of things to monitor for performance issues.... Read More...
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The cloud has become ubiquitous, and with good reason: SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2016: The Hybrid IT Evolution, found that a mere 9 percent of organizations have not migrated any infrastructure or applications to the cloud. However, 60 percent of organizations also will likely never transition all... Read More...
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Welcome to 2017, everyone. I'm sure you've been reading quite a few articles that either recap an interesting 2016, or provide technology predictions for 2017. Well, this post is going to be different, or maybe not. Instead of "how to be a new you" or "what new technology is going to change the worl... Read More...
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If you're reading this, there's a good chance your IT department is using some combination of virtualization products and cloud services from the likes of VMware, Microsoft and Amazon. For example, some of what was virtualized in your on-premises VMware environment may now be now running on Microsof... Read More...
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