Four things you need to do to achieve a data-driven business. Earlier this month, Independence Day got me thinking about leadership. Certainly, we all want our country to lead on the world stage in our dynamic and sometimes chaotic times. What...

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How do you handle capacity management in your virtual environment?

If you find yourself frantically trying to keep an eye on VM density, disk space, service levels, resource utilization and – gulp – zombie VMs…

Today, business success is data driven. No matter what your industry, you’ve got some high value data, vulnerable to ransomware attack. In fact, a June, 2016 article on FastCompany.com notes that ransomware is a growing criminal enterprise. Once most…

It’s crazy - technology and business are moving faster than ever and you’re sprinting just to keep up. Meanwhile, your workday is wasted on tons of repetitive, day-to-day tasks. That’s why we hosted a Virtual Tradeshow. The ba...

It's the moment we've all been waiting for! We've launched our brand new Systems and Information Management (SIM) Community ! If you're looking for new content around Database Management, Big

I meet a lot of database developers who have agile envy. Are you one of them? Do you see your counterparts on the application development teams scrumming and sprinting their way to shorter product cycles? Do you watch app developers release 25 updat…

It's the moment we've all been waiting for! We've launched our brand new Systems and Information Management (SIM) Community ! If you're looking for new content around Data Protection including

...So you can start building a water weenie.   Sure, you can spend your whole summer working on SQL Server performance tuning, but wouldn’t you really rather build and operate your own water weenie, like Windell here? I thought so. Windel...

 If you've been noticing that you're not getting deadlock email alerts from Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise even though alarms are popping up in Spotlight itself, then this workaround might be for you.

Before you move on though, I am assuming…

Earlier this morning, the new SIM Community went live! Please join us on our new home for all Systems and Information Management related content. If you wish to know more, you can read about the new features in the SIM Community and learn how our com…

Today, the new SIM Community is live! Please join us on our new home for all Systems and Information Management content. Read about all of the new features with in the SIM Community and learn how our community seeks to give you the information you ne…

In my previous blog post, Our Communities Are Moving, you read about our plan to move our Systems and Information Management (SIM) communities starting with the Blog in July.  We are happy to announce that our new Community and Blog are now available…