PMP Formula of the Week: Ahead or Behind Schedule
A project sponsor asks if your project is ahead or behind schedule. What formula should you use to determine your answer?
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Training in Business Resources and Trends
First– and Second-Level ITIL Event Correlation
The event management process as defined in the “ITIL Service Operation” book includes two types of correlation as part of its activities. These two types of correlation are first-level and second-level.
Read moreCCNP Security Question of the Week: Cisco ASA Security Appliance Access List
What is the default behavior of an access list on the Cisco ASA security appliance?
Read moreTips and Tricks for Expediting Service Resolution in Your POWER Server Environment: Part 2
Part 2: Over the course of the past 28 years or so, I’ve been called upon to assist clients with resolving existing service-related POWER Systems issues, both hardware and software (configuration / application performance) related. Expediting the resolution of service-related issues is key to maintaining a successful environment. Whether you’re a newly initiated or seasoned system administrator, there are three critical elements involved in expediting service resolution: documentation, preparation and conversation!
Read moreBuilding Resilient Systems
In all things data, resilience is a real thing. The current business focus on data includes big data, moving data to a cloud and a drive for mobile data. Each of these approaches addresses a different view of the same data by first adding context to understand what the data means, then processing and storing it efficiently, and finally making the contextualized data accessible everywhere. All of these actions sound good and look good in a presentation, but they also introduce security and system failure points. To reduce the failure points as you do something big, something cloud and something mobile with your data, you need to add resilience to your data systems.
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