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Tips for Managing Physical, Virtual, Cloud Environments
By Per Bauer on Thu, 08/30/2018
IT infrastructure is complex today. On-prem. Off-prem. Virtualization. The cloud.
It’s up to IT to build this infrastructure, then distribute resources from its many miscellaneous parts to various services in the most efficient way possible.
With so many different environments to track—many of them walled off from one another in data silos—service issues can be difficult to diagnose and...
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Ethical Hacking and Pen Testing: What Is It and Who Needs It?
Thu, 08/30/2018
How can ethical hacking or penetration testing help your organization improve your security posture? Fortra security expert explains.
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SAO vs. SIEM: Not Enemies, But a Security Defending Duo
Thu, 08/16/2018
As both SAOs and SIEMs grow in popularity, it's clear that these two pieces of software should not be viewed as competitors, but rather as collaborative partners in the battle against security breaches.
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Making the Best Capacity Management Tool Even Better
By Scott Adams on Mon, 07/16/2018
The best capacity management tool just got better. With just one tool, manage your entire hybrid IT environment, prevent outages, and keep services up and running.
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How to Do Cloud Capacity Planning
Tue, 04/24/2018
Operating in the cloud can have some great benefits compared to operating with on-premises software. That’s why surveyed IT professionals predict 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by the year 2020.
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Cloud Misconfiguration and the Curse of the Inadvertent Employee
By Bob Erdman on Fri, 04/20/2018
There is a new term IBM and other industry experts have begun to use: the inadvertent employee. These are the well-meaning IT professionals who are often at fault when it comes to misconfigured servers, networks, and databases.
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What is a Capacity Management Maturity Model?
By Per Bauer on Sat, 01/20/2018
Demands for services are increasing. High performance and reliability are expected. Yet budgets, labor and floor space are all being constrained. That’s where capacity management comes in. Capacity management can improve efficiency and guarantee reliability of your business systems.
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Capacity Management in Operations Management [Webinar Recap]
Wed, 12/06/2017
Learn where capacity management fits into operations management today—especially as organizations move into the cloud.
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Five Causes of Performance Bottlenecks in IT
Wed, 08/09/2017
As IT infrastructures continue to grow more complex, finding performance bottlenecks gets hard. That’s why it’s absolutely essential that IT teams have the tools, training, and resources necessary to quickly identify causes of poor application performance.
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What’s the Difference Between Two-Factor Authentication and Multi-Factor Authentication?
By Robin Tatam on Tue, 04/25/2017
Is MFA more secure than 2FA? Are the terms interchangeable? If not, what’s the difference between the two? Keep reading to get the facts.
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Building a Better Virus Trap
By Sandi Moore on Fri, 03/10/2017
Not so long ago, viruses were just one of those little annoyances that come along with using a computer, akin to the gnat that orbits your head at the family picnic.