“We’re going to start 2016 setting new backup retention policies,” says your boss. “Go talk to managers in each of our business units tomorrow and find out what they expect.” That means

Happy New Year and Welcome Back! The big question we get when we return from the holidays is always, “What are your New Year’s resolutions?” What makes the question so difficult is that we know that, all too often, the resolutions

Image credit: Pete Markham | Licensed under: CC BY 2.0 It’s tough for me to write the last blog post of the year. Maybe even tougher for you to concentrate on it, since most of us are focused on anything but work and IT right now

A comprehensive IT security program already includes a wide range of concerns, from physical access to buildings and machines to proper user provisioning and deprovisioning to compliance reporting. Organizations also focus a great deal of attention o…

If you’re like most systems admins, you find that securing, managing, and maintaining your endpoints is tedious and time consuming, while growing in complexity. In today’s IT environments, you no longer manage just servers, PCs and Macs. Now

If lack of preparation causes so many Windows Server migration problems down the line – and it does – then what does it take to prepare adequately? I posted last week on government agencies and their efforts to migrate from Windows Server

How much of change management, version control and migration management is art, and how much is science? I worked for an IT director who had been through dozens of audits and migrations. He used to talk about “the Art and Science of IT.”

The fundamentals of systems management have changed, so you’re faced with managing and securing a growing number of devices, a variety of operating systems and multiple types of users, in addition to your traditional systems management tasks. Despite

When you’re up to your ears in a database upgrade project, like an upgrade to Oracle 12c, you begin to look forward to little things. Like going a few hours with no system notifications or text messages from your DevOps team.

As I date myself by admitting that I am a child of the 70’s (I will let you try to guess the year) we used to play an outdoor game called Capture the Flag. For all of you that don’t know the game, I won’t bore you with all the details

Months ago I confessed to being a data hoarder. After all, it’s just data – how can it be hoarding if you can’t see it? I hope this isn’t a huge disappointment, but I’m here to report that not much has changed on that front

This is an exciting week for those of us on the Foglight team here at Dell World and Dell World Software User Forum 2015 in beautiful Austin Texas! We have 13 sessions at the Software Forum portion of the conference dedicated to Foglight Performanc…