3 Reasons to Add Asset Tracking to Your CI/CD Pipeline
If you’ve gotten your CI/CD implementation to a good place, you may be introducing over 100 new releases every day. This is great from a productivity standpoint, but not so much from an organizational...
View ArticleBuilding AIOps Around Kubernetes
The theory of AIOps is that the IT infrastructure environment is too complicated for humans to handle – you need the assistance of advanced automation to identify anomalies and even perform basic...
View ArticleAdapting to Hybrid IT: A Toolkit for Future-Proofing Infrastructure
For organizations seeking robust infrastructure management solutions, finding a balance between speed, cost, capacity, dependability, security, and compliance is becoming ever more complex. Companies...
View ArticleGo Into Your Next Merger with Ironclad IT Asset Management
Companies merge, get acquired, or are spun off from parent organizations all the time. When two organizations merge, they need to figure out what to do with their IT assets – what becomes common...
View ArticleIn 2020, It’s Time to Crunch Down Maintenance Costs
A survey from Deloitte shows that 70% of the average IT budget is spent on maintenance alone. Competitive companies can’t afford to spend that much on maintenance anymore, and it’s about to be the end...
View ArticleRecapping a Decade in Information Technology
Things changed a lot in the last ten years. Computer science arguably changed more during the 2010’s than it did during the 90’s. During the 90’s, the personal computer became truly personal, the...
View ArticleRunning on Cisco? Time to Find Your Vulnerable Applications
As far as data center hardware is concerned, Cisco is nearly ubiquitous. You’d be hard-pressed to find a data center that doesn’t use at least one piece of Cisco equipment and a corresponding Cisco...
View ArticleYour 2020 New Year’s Resolution is to Migrate, Migrate, Migrate
A lot of ink has been spilled over the forthcoming end of life dates for Windows 7, but the new year heralds an arguably more critical date. On January 14th, 2020, Windows Server 2008 R2 is going...
View Article10 CMDB Tools You Need to Consider in 2020
If you’re striving to adhere to the ITIL framework, you know that configuration management is a key component of success. It’s the heart of ITIL best practices, which is why Configuration Management...
View Article10 Things We All Hate About DCIM
Managing and operating a data center is filled with challenges. There are power needs and capacity to consider, as well as energy efficiency and how to plan for both current requirements and future...
View ArticleThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy turns 42
One of the first questions I’m asked about Device42 is where does the name come from. Readers of this blog will, of course, know that the name comes from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG),...
View ArticleGetting Through SOC 2 with Device42
If your business model involves storing customer data in the cloud, you’re strongly incentivized to meet SOC 2 compliance standards. This AICPA (American Institute of CPAs) compliance regime was...
View Article10 DCIM Solutions to Consider in 2020
It wasn’t long ago that cloud computing seemed poised to eliminate physical data centers. Gartner predicted that by 2025, 80% of enterprises would shut down traditional data centers. But more recent...
View ArticleDevice42’s Guide to Migration Project Planning, Part 1: Readiness Assessment...
This is the first entry in our “Guide to Creating a Migration Plan” series. If you didn’t see the series Roadmap Infographic, do check it out. The prequel to this series, “Top 20 Data Center Migration...
View ArticleAre There Good Reasons Not to Use Containers?
Container adoption is making dramatic jumps from year to year. In 2018, fewer than 20 percent of IT organizations had begun to investigate containers, but that figure has jumped to over 35 percent in...
View ArticlePrevent Your Next System Outage with an Accurate CMDB
Unplanned outages are the worst. One quarter of all companies report that an hour of unplanned downtime now costs between $300,000 and $400,000 – and 15 percent of companies now say that an hour of...
View ArticleMoving from openDCIM to Device42
If you’re starting to get a data center up and running, it’s likely that you’ll begin organizing it using openDCIM. This is a free, browser-based data center infrastructure management platform released...
View ArticleEnter the Device42 Towel Day 2020 Contest
As most readers of this blog are aware, the “42” in Device42 refers to Douglas Adams’ classic “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, a fantastic book that everyone should read. In fact, if you haven’t...
View ArticleRecipe #1: How to Find Zombie Servers Using Device42
This is the first in a series of recipes: things you can do with Device42 that you may not have thought of. In recipe #1, we’re going to show you a few different ways you can use Device42 to find...
View ArticleRecipe #2 : How Device42 Helps Microsegment Your SDN
This is the second in a series of recipes for things you can do with Device42 that you may not have thought of. VMware NSX and Cisco ACI are two popular networking applications designed to provide a...
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