Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

You can learn a lot about an organization by looking at their data. For example, if I see “LoanToValue” (LTV) or “CollateralValue,” I could surmise they deal with financial data—specifically loans—in some fashion. Developers and database administrators with domain knowledge about the intrinsic meaning of the data are precious friends. These individuals understand the meaning behind the data and how it works within the applications of the organization.

Last week, my friend and colleague Leon Adato ( t| b) introduced 2021’s IT Pro Day theme “Bring IT On” and observed an IT pros’ life experiences helped to form the foundation of their skillsets and careers, ultimately preparing them for any challenge thrown their way. Whether it’s a pandemic, natural disaster, or a configuration error that takes down a mission critical server—we know IT pros have it in hand.

Every database administrator (DBA) is—first and foremost—human. And everyone makes mistakes. It’s not the absence of mistakes but rather how you prepare for those mistakes that makes you a great DBA. Luckily, there are many ways to prepare for those mishaps, whether the errors are made by you or someone else on your team. One commonly made mistake is to drop an object in a database or accidentally delete data.

In the internet-driven economy, businesses rely on applications for different functions in the customer, partner, and employee spheres. Over the years, such applications have become more functional, faster, and user-friendly. However, end users still encounter slow loading pages, transaction failures, and esoteric error messages. These errors cause inconvenience to the users and lead to significant financial and reputational losses.

If you’ve worked in IT in recent years, you’re no doubt familiar with the term “DevOps.” Accelerating the pace of development and faster delivery of new features is the goal. DevOps involves integrating the development life cycle with Agile methodology. DevOps practices applied to database operations is now commonly referred to as DataOps.

Data governance is a set of responsibilities and processes used to manage your data assets to meet your business needs, security requirements, industry regulations, and data integrity.

IT Pro Day has always been about singing the praises of practitioners across the vast spectrum of tech specialties, from network engineers and systems administrators; to infosec analysts and developers; to storage and virtualization admins; and even to monitoring specialists (whether that’s your whole job or just part of a much longer list of responsibilities). But an important question we should consider is what, exactly, prepared you for this career?

The global pandemic continues to fluctuate, but the reliance on IT services and teams to support service continuity in the public sector remains steady. To ensure network operations continue running at peak performance, there are several actions government IT teams can take to consistently maintain a network architecture capable of supporting a remote workforce. IT tools like support tickets and the IT service desk directly support end users and organizational goals.

More personal and proprietary data is available online than ever before—and many malicious actors want to get ahold of this valuable information. Using an intrusion detection system (IDS) is essential to the protection of your network and on-premises devices. Intrusion detection systems are designed to identify suspicious and malicious activity through network traffic, and an intrusion detection system (IDS) enables you to discover whether your network is being attacked.