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5 Universal Steps to Cloud Database Migration
Chances are if you’re reading this, you are (or are thinking about) moving to cloud. While cloud migration isn’t a new term and many people are migrating, there are a few things you should know before taking the leap. Migrating your database to the cloud is worth the hours of planning, sorting through data and running…
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Multipath World
Picture a network—any enterprise network. What do you see? In almost every case, in almost every environment, you’ll find hubs and spokes of hubs and spokes all the way down. For network engineers, their focus may be even more narrow: innumerable clients, lots of switches, and fewer routers connected to a core. This…
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How Important Are Application Performance Metrics to Mission Success?
Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Brandon Shopp reviewing recent survey data and exploring how leveraging application performance metric data supports achieving agency missions. Federal IT pros have tracked application performance for decades. Today’s environments are far more complex than they’ve ever been,…
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Remote Desktop Sharing Made Easier and Fun
For those of you that are in the IT administration and support job – help desk technicians or just any IT admin providing IT support to end-users – one of the things you would have looked out for throughout your career is a more easy means of providing support. Yes, help desk makes this process easier and more organized.…
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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…
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Geekly World News: April 2021
This goes live after April Fools day, so no need to worry about a trick… Now, you’re worried, right? Well, I guess you have to finish reading and check everything out for yourself. I hope you have/had a lovely spring holiday whether you celebrate Easter, Passover, World Health Day, or anything else. March kept us busy with…
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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…
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Choose to Challenge: Elevating Women in Tech in 2021
Well, we made it—we’ve officially hit the one-year mark of the pandemic. I’m not sure if that deserves applause, a good cry, or a trophy...maybe all the above? Having tiptoed through chaos, we found innovative ways to navigate the cards we were dealt while strengthening connections to ourselves, friends, and communities.…
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IT Infrastructure Management Tools Help Transform the IT Department
IT is ever-changing. The underlying technology demands change, but even more important is the change of the role of information technology itself. For a long time, the IT department existed to support the business, and it was merely a cost center. But modern IT should be driving change and innovation, and it should create…
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How Eliminating Network Choke Points Can Help the DoD Plan for the Next Wave of the Pandemic
I really liked this piece by my SolarWinds associate Brandon Shopp discussing how network monitoring can help the DoD as it optimizes networks and deploys more collaborative tools to support users during the next phase of COVID-19. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, military IT leaders raced to expand network capacity…