Over the past three months, we’ve been developing a playbook for winning in the database management tools market guided by Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works. This best-selling book is co-authored by A.G. Lafley, executive chairman of the…

I have a saying: Nothing free is easy, and nothing easy is free. That certainly holds true where SharePoint is concerned.

The ”trouble” with SharePoint has always been its blank canvas approach to what it is. For example, admins come to IT and ask for…

The Rise of Chromebooks

Over the past few years, Google Chromebooks have rapidly gained traction in the U.S. education market. In fact, according to Futuresource Consulting, Chromebooks reached over 50 percent of U.S. K-12 sales for the first time in…

Just this week, my marketing team completed a project that involved the creation of six new web pages on our site. That might not sound like a lot, but it took many different groups many hours to deliver them live on the appointed day. This started me…

As a DBA, would you say that your database performance monitoring tasks are getting any less complex?

I thought not.

We commissioned a study called The Real World of the Database Administrator for a closer look at the facts of DBA life. In this post,…