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Hardware options to support a reverse cloud migration

Moving back on premises can require new infrastructure if maintenance windows have expired, and admins must meet power and storage demands to ensure apps migrate successfully.

By Brian Kirsch • June 28, 2019

What’s new in hybrid Azure services in Windows Admin Center?

Trying to get the most out of Azure hybrid services? Discover Microsoft's latest developments to further centralize management in Windows Admin Center.

By Kristen Gloss • June 28, 2019

How do I get started with an Ansible playbook?

An Ansible playbook boosts admin productivity when they manage configurations across machines. Learn how playbooks work and how to avoid live errors.

By Stuart Burns • June 28, 2019

Avoid SDDC security risks during implementation

Moving workloads to a software-defined data center can pose challenges. When updating systems, admins should address potential security risks with proper care to avoid issues.

By Brian Kirsch • June 28, 2019

Does an Azure cloud migration make sense for your workloads?

While you can't move all of your Windows Server workloads into the Azure cloud and turn off your local server closet, you can get much closer than ever.

By Jonathan Hassell • June 27, 2019

Perform this infrastructure as code tutorial with Pulumi and AWS

Learn the basics of an infrastructure as code deployment with this tutorial, which features the open source tool Pulumi, along with Python and AWS.

By Prateek Singh • June 27, 2019

LogicMonitor wades into AIOps with anomaly detection

Another country heard from in AIOps: LogicMonitor rolls out anomaly detection and alert dependency correlation, but can it rise above the noise?

By Beth Pariseau • June 26, 2019

Assess AIOps benefits and challenges for enterprise IT teams

To successfully reap the benefits of an AIOps implementation, IT teams first have to navigate some crucial cultural and technical shifts.

By Kurt Marko • June 26, 2019

Save on licensing with a multi-hypervisor environment

Shifting some workloads from VMware to Hyper-V to rely on multiple hypervisors takes time and effort, but the flexibility and cost savings might just be worth it.

By Brian Kirsch • June 26, 2019

SysAid launches Automate Joe for ITSM platform automation

Integrating Automate Joe with the SysAid ITSM platform will boost automation, minimize repetitive tasks for service agents and improve productivity, according to the vendor.

By Sabrina Polin • June 26, 2019

The history of Docker’s climb in the container management market

When the concept of containers became stale, Docker brought containers back to the forefront by creating container management software, and the company continues to evolve.

By Stefani Muñoz • June 25, 2019

Reality strikes when enterprises deploy Kubernetes in production

It's easy to run containers with Kubernetes, but Kubernetes in production -- with enterprise security, monitoring and compliance demands -- is a different story.

By Meredith Courtemanche • June 25, 2019

Office 365 multiple tenants vs. single tenant considerations

A migration to Office 365 will require the IT staff to adjust how it manages the collaboration platform, which can get complicated if more than one tenant is involved.

By Reda Chouffani • June 24, 2019

How to locate privileged accounts in Active Directory

IT administrators must be able to identify privileged accounts in Active Directory for a more secure enterprise; two methods can make the task easier.

By Tim Warner • June 24, 2019

Does DevOps require end-to-end monitoring tools?

While basic monitoring services and feedback loops provide critical insight for DevOps teams, an end-to-end monitoring tool gives them a more holistic view of the end-user experience.

By Adam Fowler • June 24, 2019

AI help desk software frees IT ops to take on SRE skills

A financial services company will retrain its help desk staff to be app developers and SREs, while AI handles the grunt work for the company's call center employees.

By Beth Pariseau • June 21, 2019

3 steps to prepare for Exchange updates

If you dread the process of updating Exchange and the possibility that patches will break the servers, you can take control by putting best practices in place with three steps.

By Kristen Gloss • June 21, 2019

IT pros brace for wave of M&A in microservices security

Microservices and DevOps have made IT security a shared responsibility among enterprise stakeholders, and experts expect this shift to prompt mass consolidation among vendors.

By Beth Pariseau • June 20, 2019

Deploy Microsoft IIS server, .NET apps in Windows containers

Instead of investing money in migrating your existing .NET applications to .NET Core to modernize them, deploy them in Windows containers with a simple script.

By Nirmal Sharma • June 20, 2019

Alaska Airlines charts course for DevOps security

As Alaska Airlines plots a flight path to a hybrid cloud infrastructure, it will navigate with an automated DevOps security tool that spans multiple IT environments.

By Beth Pariseau • June 20, 2019

VMware vSphere HA capabilities ease VM management

VMware vSphere HA provides admins with the ability to manipulate their virtual environments to avoid excessive VM restarts and ensure peak performance.

By Stefani Muñoz • June 20, 2019

Future of PowerShell lies in DevOps, cloud resource management

While PowerShell isn't the only automation and scripting tool that fits in IT pros' cloud and CI/CD toolboxes, it won't fall out of favor any time soon.

By Adam Bertram • June 20, 2019

Micro VMs can present unique management challenges

The haphazard deployment of micro VMs can eventually lead to issues ranging from IP address depletion to serious performance problems resulting from extreme resource contention.

By Brien Posey • June 19, 2019

3 tools admins can use for private cloud capacity planning

Admins can better manage their private clouds with capacity planning tools, such as specified quotas, resource monitoring and predictive scheduling.

By Brien Posey • June 19, 2019

Apply AI to container monitoring and management -- piece by piece

While the application of AI to container monitoring and management is possible, it first requires certain operations practices and carefully integrated tool sets.

By Tom Nolle • June 18, 2019