In this 22nd year of celebrating Sys Admins Appreciation Day, we reached out to the IT community asking to hear your horror stories, tips, tricks, and lessons learned over the years. After receiving hundreds of responses, from systems engineers and senior technicians to security strategists and consultants, here are our top favorite reasons to thank the people who keep our businesses running and thriving—and save our sanity regularly.  You spend your weekends patiently fixing family members’ computer “issues.”  You find lost data, seemingly out of thin air.  You answer the question “Do…

We’re often told one of the biggest challenges our customers have in creating a reliable DR plan is the lack of guidance in getting started. We hear you and we want to help you succeed. We’ve simplified the end-to-end experience and have officially integrated with VMware Cloud Launchpad! VMware Cloud Launchpad is an interactive platform that supports a wide range of multi-cloud initiatives for today’s organizations. Think of Launchpad as a one-stop-shop where you can…

Tripwire Configuration Manager is an easy-to-use service that allows you to monitor and enforce secure configuration policies across your multi-cloud environment. The Configuration Manager free trial allows users to experience the user interface and evaluate platform capabilities for 30 days using either Tripwire demo data or your own customer data.  This blog will walk through the steps involved in signing up for a free 30-day trial of Configuration Manager. The Sign-Up Process Visit the Configuration…

In this segment, part 5, of this multi-part blog series on multi-cloud use maturity, we look at the topic of cloud financial management. A comprehensive eBook that includes the entire multi-cloud use maturity framework can be found here.  At the end of this blog, you can find links to all the prior blogs in this series. IT Financial Management before Cloud When applications were primarily built on premise, in an organization’s own data center, most…

A human rights group based in the United States is encouraging Afghans to delete their data to prevent the Taliban from using it against them. The Deobandi Islamist religious-political movement and military organization seized control of Afghanistan on August 15, two decades after they were removed from power by US-led forces. With the official American mission to evacuate US citizens and Afghan allies from Afghanistan set to end tomorrow, Human Rights First is advising Afghans who remain in…