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Outdated Calculus of Cloud Cost Containment
Cost would seem to underpin almost every decision IT teams make. Sure, business requirements drive overall operations budgets, but it'’s always in tension with decades-old certainties about cost. It’s long been the unyielding constant of IT equations. In particular, IT pros migrating application infrastructures out of the…
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IT Life Coach: Tips for Bridging the IT Career Gap
Career-focused conversations on topics like advancement, job hunting, resumes, getting started, pivoting to a new area of tech, and so on are a staple of IT professional water-cooler conversations even when times were “normal” (whatever that actually was). But after the last 12+ months, with everything going on <gestures…
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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.…