DevOps has been pervasive within Application Development for several years, but the database environment is so different and sensitive in nature, making database development a barrier to an end-to-end DevOps strategy.

The most important element of DevOps…

Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise‘s main purpose in life is to inform you of SQL Server performance problems, and then give you a quick way to diagnose their root causes so you can take action quickly.  Email and mobile app notifications along with…

Differential backups make perfect sense….backup only what has changed since the last Full backup. Differential backups dramatically reduce the storage needed to maintain backups, while lowering maintenance windows associated with Full backups. 

Part two of this series may be found here.

Part three of this series may be found here.

Over the years I have written hundreds of PowerShell scripts for RapidRecovery/AppAssure Management and Automation. One of the constant requests I have heard from…

From time to time, I will get the question “Does the KACE Service Desk Support Change Management?” More often than not, most customers just need the ability to track any change that occurs and possibly get an approval before they commit the change…

So you need to improve your imaging and want to figure out where to start. The first thing to realize is that as computer professionals, we like clear answers. Click this box, use this option and it works. Don’t set this setting, only use option A if…

As you may know, migration of Microsoft platforms (Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, Office 365) can be risky, disruptive, costly and time-consuming.

Migrations and consolidations can be complex and can put a strain on your internal IT team. So…

Foglight for Virtualization 8.5 with Capacity Director is out now, go give it try.

Predict growth, optimize performance and know the impact of changes on your computer capacity - Never again will you need to make an unplanned request for hardware purchases…

A customer would like to forward alarms from Foglight with all the appropriate information, such as alarm time, source, severity, message, and the rule name, to a pager script which in turn pages the on-call DBA.

The content of this was written by my…

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” or software…

Are you ready to learn?! Sir, YES SIR!

Howdy, y’all! Ron Colson here from the KACE training team.

I’ve been running the KACE Backyard Boot Kamps (also known as BBK) for a few years now with my awesome colleague Andrew Lubchansky and let…

Foglight can now monitor the MS SQLServer BI stack – SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS.

Foglight supports monitoring SSIS for MS SQLServer 2012 and above. For this SSIS monitoring, Foglight needs to access the SSISDB catalog. This should be automatically created…

So long, sneaker net!

As our marketing team gathered to talk about a “Throwback Thursday” post to our Endpoint Systems Management community (we all love those entries, don’t we?), it sparked a couple of immediate thoughts in my brain. They were around…

We recently commissioned Principled Technologies to conduct an independent lab test comparing Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition, with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. Foglight was the clear leader in all three categories of functionality…

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Why do we think they’re more important than ever?  Good question and the answer to that question will depend on the team members asking it:

• The DBA Team: They are not interrupted multiple times a day to restore x-amount of configuration…

The MOD Squad Column: It’s Groovy Man.

“If you meet these kids in an alley some night, don't fight ’em. They’re cops.”  

They’re “The MOD Squad…”

There’s Linc, Julie and Pete:

The Mod Squad…

As the old saying goes, “the one constant in life is change”, and this is especially true in database environments.  There are many reasons why database environments experience change whether it be through typical maintenance efforts such…

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YES! It’s October, and while most of you are using your in-laws’ wardrobe to decorate the front yard for Halloween and scare off (youth) intruders, we thought we’d let you know it is also National…

The latest release of the Foglight for Oracle cartridge brings a new dashboard, customer enhancements and various fixes.

There is a new overview dashboard:

It is easier to read with an improved layout. I like the way the various areas are summarized…

System Monitoring is the function of notifying and informing application stake-holders about the effectiveness of a company’s IT investment.  The stake-holders range from business people that own or depend on Software applications, to the administrators…

We’ve posted recently about database developers feeling left out of agile processes. You may wonder how application developers can have it so easy – scrums, sprints and automation – to deploy updates at what can seem like an astonishing pace.…

In my last post, I covered the four stages of capacity management, and talked about some of the reasons why managing your virtual capacity is equally as important as physical capacity management.  Now it’s time to talk specifically about how we can help…

The need for virtual capacity management is on the rise.  In Gartner’s ‘Market Guide for Capacity Management Tools’ report, published on January 30, 2015, it states “Through 2018, more than 30 percent of enterprises will use IT infrastructure capacity…