Third-party validation. No, its purpose isn’t just to stroke our egos in admiration. Nor is it a meaningless attaboy. (“Way to go, little Timmy! You did good today, kiddo.”)
No, third-party validation acts as affirmation — a gut check…
Third-party validation. No, its purpose isn’t just to stroke our egos in admiration. Nor is it a meaningless attaboy. (“Way to go, little Timmy! You did good today, kiddo.”)
No, third-party validation acts as affirmation — a gut check…
NetVault Backup 11.1 is now available. The latest release is focused squarely on two of NetVault’s main tenets: ease of use and scalability. A new installer, along with updates to the user interface, user-level access (ULA) and other functionality make…
Next Monday we launch Migration Manager for Active Directory 8.13, now supporting Exchange 2016 as a target.
As many of you know, Migration Manager for Active Directory is a fan favorite, ensuring ZeroIMPACT to your organization to mitigate the risk of…
As the 50th anniversary of the Star Trek TV series looms, it’s interesting to think of the wisdom that can be shared from the many voyages of starship Enterprise as it went “where no man has gone before.” Remember “The Trouble with Tribbles” episode…
Let me start with this – I am not “piling on.” This kind of outage could happen to anyone. I remember when I first heard that Delta had to cancel many flights over the last few days, I assumed that their systems had been hacked. I guess I’m relieved…
Changes are not only inevitable but they are also more complex and have a greater impact each time. Even the simplest modification can have a considerable effect on the virtual environment.
Generally, we don't realize how we have been impacted until…
My grandmother was the greatest. She was the iconic example of old world class and style… I never knew she was also a prophet.
As I was growing up, she would always take me aside and raising a finger crooked from age, she would point to me and…
Finally, the moment you’ve been waiting for: the Foglight quarterly maintenance release! That’s right, Foglight 5.7.5.5 was released on July 14 with a focus on customer-raised bugs, general quality of work, Foglight Management Server performance…
Enterprise Reporter provides a unified solution for data discovery and report generation. Using the Enterprise Reporter Configuration Manager, administrators can easily configure and deploy discoveries to collect and store data. Once the data has been…
Change Auditor now supports Client Certificate Authentication. This is a welcome feature for administrator who prefer a more secure method of Authenticating users connecting with the web client. Introducing Client Certificate Authentication in the client…
Co-written with Priscilla Tenggara.
When it comes to Pokémon Go horror stories, we’ve heard it all - from trespassing, to injuries, to even robberies. It seems like the risk to users has no limit. Whether or not it’s intentional, users gaining access…
Many administrators work with GPO’s every day to make user and PC management easier however, the very same feature that makes one aspect of managing Active Directory easier can become cumbersome itself. GPOADmin is the best platform for managing…
As a database developer or DBA, you’ve lacked the proper tools to help you keep pace with the rest of your organization. You’ve watched your app-developing colleagues across the hall use agile to whiz through product releases and embrace DevOps to automate…
After 112 years, golf is again an Olympic sport. Before that, it was part of the program only in Paris 1900 and St Louis 1904. 112 years without golf, the last 4 major winners have been major winners for the first time ever, golf is at an all-time high…
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
I was raised fifteen miles west of Concord, Massachusetts. More specifically, I was raised 14.9 miles west of Walden Pond and the…
In this blog post, I’ll approach some issues pertaining to Data Protection | Rapid Recovery virtual standby machines. It is a subject that requires some groundwork to be properly approached. So, without further ado, let’s begin!
Rapid Recovery…
The cloud: the final frontier. These are the voyages of your enterprise. Its mission: to explore strange new technologies, to seek out innovation, to boldly go where your organization has never gone before.
I hope you’re as excited about the new Star…
Time is one of the scarcest resources in any kind of organization and we, as virtual systems administrators, are also affected by it. New tasks appear every day, our clients (internal and external) become more and more demanding, technology keeps on developing…
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Capacity management in your virtual environment is a balancing act.
Take the two athletes in the photo, for example. The one on the left can represent the unlimited desires of the business – the workload on the virtual machine – and the…
Auditing an application of its users’ activities can be useful and at times a mandatory task in tightly-secured environments. Spotlight has many robust capabilities such as deleting or disabling connections to changing alarm threshold values or stopping…
Let’s face it: We can’t all be the kind of hero who saves the world. But as a database administrator, if you could simplify database migrations and upgrades in your company, wouldn’t that make you a hero with your users and co-workers?…
SharePlex 9.0 is the most exciting and feature rich release of SharePlex I’ve ever been a part of.
Our frenemies over at Oracle with GoldenGate have been working to create fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) about the future of SharePlex by telling…
New Windows 10 features are getting ink in the tech press, but it’s Windows 10 security that’s top of mind for most system administrators.
When we conducted a webcast called Under the Hood with Windows 10 Security, more than 2,300 sysadmins…