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IT Maturity
By Per Bauer on Fri, 06/16/2017
What are your optimization goals? An optimization initiative is typically triggered by one of the drivers listed below and the focus is dictated by your overall business objectives. But singlehandedly focusing on one objective may negatively impact your capabilities in the other areas. This can reduce the overall service quality and offer limited to no real value. In order to achieve concurrent...
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How to Drive Business Value with Capacity Management
By Per Bauer
Today’s businesses—and IT environments—are complex. Technology is changing rapidly, which makes it all the more difficult to manage. You may have considered capacity management to right-size your IT environment. But you might be wondering, “What do I get out of this?” Find out how capacity management will have an impact on your bottom line (and beyond).
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How to Control Your Cloud Deployment
By Per Bauer
Watch this on-demand webinar to learn why cloud deployments are more expensive than expected, what is contributing tot he high cost of cloud and how to gain control and optimize your cloud deployment.
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How to Go from Simple to Strategic Capacity Management
By Per Bauer on Fri, 03/17/2017
Capacity Management Strategies If IT was like a restaurant…then capacity management should be like the restaurant manager (aka Maître D’). Unfortunately, too many organizations are using capacity management as the clean-up department. When something goes wrong, capacity management fixes it. And while that used to work, that’s not the best practice to follow today. A Brief History of Capacity...
Guide
DevOps Development: Keeping the Lights On
Overview : The DevOps methodology embodies two core philosophies: decreasing the lead time of software deployment and the automation of delivery and testing. DevOps emerged as a practical response to the agile development movement, in contrast with traditional, phase-based or “waterfall” development, which is inefficient and labor-intensive. Traditional methods should be phased out, and companies...
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Capacity Planning
By Per Bauer on Tue, 03/14/2017
Have you ever experienced an online service outage? It’s like losing half your physical locations without any warning. Downtime is a huge problem. It stops your revenue stream. It compromises customer loyalty. It damages your brand’s reputation. And it wastes hours and IT resources to fix the problem—when it shouldn’t have been a problem to begin with. Isn’t it about time you prevented downtime...
Guide
Essentials for Privileged Access Management
Learn how you can effectively and efficiently control privileged UNIX and Linux accounts from accessing data or executing any application by using centralized access management.
Guide
Controlling SSH for Security and Compliance
SSH is nearly ubiquitous in today’s enterprises, and is the predominant tool for managing unix and linux servers, and the applications and data that they host. Poor practices around the deployment and management of the SSH infrastructure could easily leave your enterprise vulnerable to a breach. Are you in control? SSH, Secure Shell protocol, is now nineteen years old and broadly deployed across...
Guide
Our Privileged Access Management Solution - Your Sudo Replacement
Learn how to reduce the risk of insider fraud, streamline regulatory compliance, and greatly reduce administration efforts with an effective privileged access management solution.
Article
Sudo or SuDon't: Manage Your Privileged Command Execution and Sudo Policies
Mon, 03/13/2017
System admins need root level authority at all times, system operations staff needs periodic database and application account authority, and security admins needing to protect the environment are some of the few of the challenges of managing privilege in the enterprise server infrastructure. Read this article to learn more about Sudo alternatives.
Article
Managing IT Access Privileges
Mon, 03/13/2017
THE UNSOLVED PROBLEM Secure, private, effective use of computers by a company (including hosted, cloud and other services as well as the company’s own systems) relies on managing access privileges. The problem isn’t unique to computers. Office buildings, hotels, apartments and college dorms, for example, typically have “master keys” (or smart ID badges) that can open many-toall of the locks in the...
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Solving Healthcare Security Concerns
Mon, 03/13/2017
According to a recent KPMG report, four-fifths of executives at healthcare providers and payers say their information technology has been compromised by cyberattacks. That same report presents how the increased risk to healthcare organizations relates to the richness and uniqueness of the information that health plans, doctors and hospitals handle. Apart from typical financial fraud, there is also...
Article
New Approaches to the SWIFT and PCI-DSS Framework
Mon, 03/13/2017
THE WORLD OF COMPLIANCE At the official start of summertime 2016 in Britain we are starting to consume the labour of last autumn, five gallons of alcoholic homemade cider (yum!) made from eight apple varieties grown in mine and my neighbors’ gardens. I’m very VERY careful sterilizing glassware, containers, and buckets: there was this unfortunate incident three years ago (no, you don’t want to hear...
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Pros and Cons for Puppet's Configuration Management & Security
Mon, 03/13/2017
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY I was at the Red Hat Summit in Boston at the end of June. We had a lot of activity at our exhibitor stand, and a lot of discussions being passed on to me by our sales team I continued to have the same conversation again and again over the three days. This seems to be the year people have finished bedding down Puppet in their server/VM infrastructure, and are looking...
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How to Choose a Capacity Planning Tool
By Per Bauer on Tue, 02/28/2017
Looking for a capacity planning tool? Find out how to choose a tool that will be the most accurate.
