When working with new and existing Foglight customers as they are planning to upgrade from vCenter 5.x to vCenter 6.x Infrastructure, the question is usually always asked, "Does Foglight support monitoring vSAN?"  YES, Foglight supports monitoring…

The original “Just the Facts” blog I discussed how to see just the Alarms displayed in “Spotlight Today” within Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise. Now it is time to see what we can do with those Facts or Alarms. Spotlight comes with factory settings…

Storage Groups: Your Next Data Protection Bullet OK – so you may now have an awesome data deduplication appliance in your environment.  Using it gives you the peace of mind that data can be quickly backed up and recovered.  But what ...

A customer recently asked if it was possible for Foglight to integrate with Active Directory.  To take it a step further, use the Member(s) of a existing Active Directory Group to access Foglight and when the Group Member(s) login, they can only see VMware…

One of the big new features of Toad Data Point 4.1 release is a 64-bit installer offering.

There is a unified installer that contains both a 32 and 64-bit Toad Data Point 4.1 installer.

(Note:  The Toad Data Point beta will only come in a 64-bit installer…

Hope you got some rest and relaxation during your vacation.  Now you not only need to get caught up with email, but your Jr. Admin has a confession about some changes he/she made in Active Directory.  The biggest question is, what were all their changes…

Over the years I have presented to probably thousands of people. During that time I have had more than one person ask me “Mark, what is an explain plan”.

I reply, “That is the method that Oracle uses (or whatever database it may be) to determine…

I hope you have been following the DevOps series of posts.  If not, the following is a quick index of the previous posts on the topic: You May Be Doing DevOps and Not Even Know It You may be doing DevOps and not even know it – ‘The F...

Trending upward in IT is the amount of Email data being migrated to the Cloud from On-Premise Exchange. Specifically, there are increased migrations to Microsoft Office 365 (Exchange Online), which is what we would call a “Cloud Provider”...

Starting in Toad Data Point 4.1, a new feature will allow you to easily search Toad World and Toad Knowledge Base articles whenever you encounter a database error.

For example, say you are running a query in the editor and get an “Ora-00942: table or…

Toad Data Point 4.1 is now available.  This new release focused on…

• New 64-bit version of Toad Data Point.
• Integrated search tool that allows users to easily search Toad World and Knowledgebase articles for errors that are encountered.

Below are…

Modern security information and event management (SIEM) solutions can collected logs from every type of device including Active Directory (AD) so that companies can search through and analyze “everything”.   The question we are often asked is…