As with any piece of commercial software, consumers at some point ask the question, what value-add does this product bring to the table and, will the juice be worth the squeeze? Because if time is money, then I can only assume that money is also money…

It’s truly been a season of launch for Microsoft over the past 12 months. First, Microsoft unveiled Exchange 2016 last October. New SharePoint 2016 features followed in May. What’s Next? Unless you’ve been playing a game of hide a...

While it’s no secret that cloud technologies are rapidly changing the way that organizations are running their IT infrastructures, for many organizations that I speak with, databases (and data in general) seem to be the slowest to move.  ...

I look after our Data Protection Portfolio from a pre-sales technical side. Every day I talk to existing and potential customers about server and data backup and recovery. During my conversations, I often ask them if they’ve lost any data or if...

It has happened to all of us. We love an application like Toad. However, it would be so much more awesome if the app would do some idea that is currently not in the product. Allow me to introduce you to the Toad “Idea Pond.”

The Idea Pond…

Database developers: Does it feel as though everyone else gets the productivity benefits and fun from agile development, but not you? In most organizations, agile is taking hold in application development, operations and even marketing. Meanwhile, d…

In this blog series, I’ll cover why monitoring the Internet of Things (IoT) is important, along with how to go about doing it in a practical manner.

In this second installment, I’ll show specifically how Foglight can help monitor the Dell Edge Gateways…

  Suppose you could be a superhero – what superpower would you want? X-ray vision? Flying? Mind-reading? In a survey conducted by a European film rental service, accelerated healing ability like that possessed by the X-Men character Wolver...

For business leaders and IT professionals, speed is the primary appeal of the cloud.  They both describe Cloud Computing like this, he was like a kid in a candy store when told it would take only a few weeks to get a cloud application up and running.  

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