Tag Archives: Friday Poll

Change Management

Posted on February 3, 2012 by way0utwest

Hurry up and wait. In a couple of the large enterprises I’ve worked in, that might have been the IT motto. It seemed as though the internal developers were always under pressure to get applications finished as soon as possible. … Continue reading →

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WWBOD

Posted on January 13, 2012 by way0utwest

I’ve titled this for Brent Ozar (web |@brento), What Would Brent Ozar Do, since he was the one that turned me on to this post about calculating your FU money. A polite way of describing FU money would be the money that … Continue reading →

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Read-only Data

Posted on January 6, 2012 by way0utwest

We keep gathering, storing, and managing more and more data. Many of our systems could use an archiving plan to migrate older data to another database or system where it can be accessed, but it won’t impact the performance of … Continue reading →

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A Welcome Intruder

Posted on December 2, 2011 by way0utwest

One of the things that many large companies do is hire companies to evaluate their security. This often involves some sort of test of the security systems by an individual whose experise is breaking into companies. There are some experts … Continue reading →

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