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Records Management: Classified Document Restrictions make Work from Home Difficult

By Dick Weisinger

Managing classified documents within the US federal government is expensive and challenging. A 2017 report by Nara said that “the prohibitive cost of maintaining this outdated system continues to rise. ISOO estimates that in FY 2017 the Government alone spent…

Observability versus Monitoring in IT Operations

By Dick Weisinger

The terms Observability and Monitoring are frequently used when discussing IT Operations. Observability is the process of checking outputs from a system to infer what is happening internal to the system. This is often done by reviewing infrastructure logs, traces…

Programming Languages: Python Begins to Edge Out Java in Popularity

By Dick Weisinger

Python has been gaining on Java in terms of popularity, and by some measures, has surpassed it. A report by JetBrains found that Java remains the most widespread primary computing language, Python has become the most used language The report…

Cloud Computing: Becoming the Norm Rather than the Exception

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing is gradually becoming the norm rather than the exception across most workplaces. The results of IDG’s 2020 Cloud Computing Study found: Only 8 percent of businesses say that they host all applications on-premise with nothing running in the…

Cloud Complexity: Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architectures Make Security Harder

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud computing may be easy to get started with, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the security of the cloud infrastructure is also easy. A major vulnerability of businesses is incorrectly configured security settings. And that difficulty is compounded by…