Today, most of us depend on some form of help desk support. IT support teams ensure the most uptime possible for systems and processes that keep businesses running smoothly. Their customers and yours rely on the help desk to resolve small glitches and technical hiccups, as well as the major IT problems that threaten to […]
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Most organizations today are either moving their IT workloads to the cloud, or they are researching their options to decide if they are comfortable making this move. Strategically there isn’t one answer for every organization. Your organization must understand the value that a cloud implementation can provide for this approach to be successful for the […]
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One of the important first stages of adopting cloud is looking at how the network will function. Cloud-based applications are always accessed over a network. Network design and planning is critical. The networking in AWS is designed as one or more Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). A VPC is a collection of subnets in a region. […]
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You have awareness into your applications, data infrastructure and IT data center environment, now, how do you leverage that insight for making cloud decisions? This tip is the second in a two-part mini-series (read part I here) looking at informed decision making to avoid flying blind in or with clouds. Depending on the size, type, […]
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You have decided, or, have been told to start using the cloud; now you have some server storage I/O and data infrastructure decisions making tasks. Data infrastructure (what some simply call the data center) include servers, storage, I/O networking, hardware, software along with associated management, reporting, monitoring and data protection tools. How can you move […]
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Every cloud conversation I have seems to revolve around a general uneasiness of moving corporate data to the cloud. Most organizations do not choose an “all in” cloud strategy, and are testing their experiences first. I completely support this testing approach, it’s necessary. A great way to do this is with a hybrid model that […]
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Sometimes applications are built in the cloud with no need to connect to your on-premises IT. But far more often applications in the cloud need to talk to applications in your existing data centers. We usually want network routing over a connection between our cloud and our data centers. This connection between on-premises and cloud […]
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Just as ISPs, hosting companies, businesses, and even consumers were beginning to close down the vulnerabilities that enable computers to become zombies – botnets – a new class of hosts arrives. Always online, Internet-facing, with hardcoded (often in the firmware) default passwords, the smart thermostat, webcam, digital video recorder, or consumer router-zombie is here. This […]
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About zero cost plans in SQL Server OK, first thing first, what is a “zero cost plan” in SQL Server? I did some digging around and found the following links, which I would encourage you to read before continuing with this post: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181055.aspx http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325607 If you’ve done this background reading, you should now be aware […]
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SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer can collect a count of the number of deadlocks to be displayed as a resource graph. For Ignite versions prior to 8.2, you can update two files in order to start collecting the number of deadlocks. Enabling DPA to Collect Deadlock Information The code below takes advantage of the system_health extended […]
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Uptime is assumed. Performance is the new black. You can’t hope for performance, you need to be certain of the performance of the system. You need to know what drives performance and how any changes to the system change (or could change) the performance profile. This is, in summary, what performance certainty means. It’s a new world, performance matters Not […]
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With the added complexity of growing data volumes and ever-changing workloads, database performance tuning is now necessary to maximize resource utilization and system performance. However, performance tuning is often easier said than done. Let’s face it, tuning is difficult for a number of reasons. For one thing, it requires a significant amount of expertise in […]
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