Automation offers huge potential for streamlining processes and increasing productivity, but it can be difficult to implement. However, if you understand the challenges involved in introducing... Read More

There is a Chinese proverb that might well serve IT asset managers today: The best time to plant a tree is 30 years ago. The second-best... Read More

Both disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) are designed to give you (and your customers and workers) almost continuous access to your data and services.... Read More

As of this writing, we are about three months into the COVID-19 epidemic. You’ve been working from home for at least a quarter. Some of your... Read More

If you missed the end-of-life (EOL) deadline for Windows Server 2008, you might think that you have bigger problems to deal with. Unfortunately, this task remains... Read More

It is a fact of life in the world of remote data center management that networks go offline and they need to be brought back online.... Read More

If you’re starting to get a data center up and running, it’s likely that you’ll begin organizing it using openDCIM. This is a free, browser-based data... Read More

Unplanned outages are the worst. One quarter of all companies report that an hour of unplanned downtime now costs between $300,000 and $400,000 – and 15... Read More

The Complicated History of CMDBs The one thing all Configuration Management Databases (CMDB) have in common is that for them to be of any use, they... Read More

Container adoption is making dramatic jumps from year to year. In 2018, fewer than 20 percent of IT organizations had begun to investigate containers, but that... Read More