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• Should I allow SSH tunneling connections through the firewall?

  Allowing users to tunnel through a firewall to access any site creates a security risk. How big of a risk is it? It depends on how much you trust your users. Continue Reading

• Ways to make the application deployment process clear and flexible

  The application deployment manual must be flexible, and short enough to actually follow. A process that can't change with the evolving IT system isn't of much use to anyone. Continue Reading

• Five approaches to IT resiliency that don't need new hardware

  With new application architectures, snapshots, containerization and other technologies, IT resiliency goes up while the server count stays the same. Continue Reading

• Virtualization lightens IT application management load

  With very few exceptions, applications can -- and should -- go on virtual machines. IT admins benefit from better application management and increased automation. Continue Reading

• IT systems management

  Systems management is the administration of the information technology systems in an enterprise data center. An effective systems management plan facilitates the delivery of IT as a service (ITaaS) and allows the organization's employees to respond ... Continue Reading

• IT due diligence in a merger

  Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) involve a tremendous amount of effort to properly evaluate the situation before decisions are made. Leaders must put together a teams to perform a due diligence ...Continue Reading

• Use these DevOps examples to reimagine an IT organization

  These before and after DevOps adoption stories from real IT organizations yield insights into processes and tools, metrics for success and mistakes made.Continue Reading

• Manage disk image files wisely in the face of DevOps sprawl

  There are strategies to prevent obsolete disk images from clogging up valuable space, especially in a rapid-change DevOps shop. However, not all VMs will benefit from the same plan.Continue Reading

• These steps in the test automation process quash IT surprises

  Automated testing ranges from rapid unit tests to production-mimicking performance tests. If you're deploying new code frequently, make sure you have the right test automation.Continue Reading

• Bimodal IT innovates without risk

  One of the simplest ways to describe the responsibilities of an IT professional is to say they ensure the disparate parts and pieces of the infrastructure work well together. On any given day, you'll find administrators and engineers matching ...Continue Reading

• Know how to handle IT incident management to avoid chaos

  When an important application goes down, you'd better have the right IT incident management processes and procedures in place to fix it.Continue Reading

• DevOps engineer skills needed for continuous deployment

  The DevOps engineer holds a critical position in modern IT. The role requires someone who can do technical work and still manage multiple teams with differing priorities.Continue Reading

• POVs on IT infrastructure automation you can use

  It's a natural urge to remove human intervention from machines' functioning, but an operational stack doesn't stay the same.Continue Reading

• Mimic production with the right staging environment

  With public or private cloud templates, it becomes easy to copy your production IT environment for staging new code as often as development needs it.Continue Reading

• What IT alerting strategy will cut down daily monitoring noise?

  I'm the new IT ops manager at my company, and I'm bombarded by IT alerts from our monitoring software. What do I need to look at first and what can I ignore? Who on my team needs to be on the alerts?Continue Reading