Don't you sometimes just wish this amazing Information Technology business we're in was just a little different? That tech just worked? That there was one standard instead of eight? That security wasn't an afterthought. And that all apps weren't tested in production under the guise of DevOps?
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 01/30/2023
Tom Fenton continues to be impressed with the low-priced Inovato Quadra, an alternative to the Raspberry Pi, and the person behind it, Michael Burmeister-Brown.
From Microsoft's "sustainability cloud" to multiple Microsoft 365 emissions dashboards, there are plenty of tools available to businesses to start measuring -- and reducing -- their carbon footprints.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 11/29/2022
Tom goes to the Motor City and finds not all of the cool Kubernetes innovation is coming from major players.
Tom, who's a sucker for a good auto museum, finds an upbeat, engaged live crowd with plenty of interesting exhibits and attractions in the Motor City.
Paul Schnackenburg, the one-man Security Operations Center, talks about the MITRE ATT&CK framework, the cybersecurity kill chain, modern security threats and why an integrated suite of security tools is crucial for defense today.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 09/29/2022
Paul Schnackenburg goes deep on what two new services offer, how they fit into the overall family of Defender products and why you should consider if they might be a good fit for your organization.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 09/26/2022
Tom wore many hats at the show as a regular participant, presenter, vExpert, author and also a booth worker.
"The industry is going to multi-cloud. VMware is in almost every enterprise, commercial, and small business in the world. VMware is and will be a player in the future of computing."
- By David Ramel, Gladys Rama
- 08/08/2022
Paul details where this hidden gem fits, where it doesn't, why you should care and coming improvements.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 07/06/2022
How much will metaverse devs make? Will they be paid in percentages or salaries? Will they be paid in cryptocurrency? NFTs? Something else? So many questions.
Paul's verdict: "Microsoft CIEM will be a great solution for mid-sized and larger businesses, as the problem it solves is a crucial one to get right and it's impossible to do manually."
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 05/27/2022
Paul details his personal, totally subjective highlights of the recent conference, which he found to be more substantial than some predecessors.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 11/29/2021
The point of AVNM is to give you a centralized way to manage connectivity and security policy, scoped to subscriptions or management groups for your entire Azure estate.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 11/03/2021
Tom Fenton goes under the hood of Windows Terminal (currently only available in Preview Mode).
From hyperscale database engines and improvements in ML.NET 1.0, to the preview of Azure Blockchain Service and new flavors of Azure SQL Database, here's a glimpse at what was announced at the Microsoft developer conference.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 07/31/2019
Here's what to keep in mind when planning your organization's backup and DR capabilities.
Released with the Windows 10 Insider Preview, the new architecture looks to deliver a faster file system performance, among other new and improved features.
Paul Schnackenburg walks through an implementation of public cloud computing for a small business IT infrastructure and shares what lessons were learned along the way.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 06/13/2019
Tom Fenton shares the results of some tests he conducted with Turbo Boost enabled and disabled on a CPU.