My current home / work setup is dual LG 27" monitors attached to a KVM switch connected to my home and work laptops (monitors are running at 1080 so not...

If your cloud is Azure.....

Another thing to look at is weather you are exceeding the maximum I/O throughput threshold for either the VM or the destination disk for your backups. ...

"A common theme is that there is a minimum number of people needed for a support rota.  Below that and you risk burn-outs and resignations."

Definitely.  In the 2007-2009 timeframe our...

Our DBA team supports 24/7 production facilities so we definitely have an on call rotation.  We organize our systems so each has a primary and backup DBA.  When an after...

Because my company operates manufacturing facilities (many 24-6 or 24-7 operations) across time zones, after hours work is part of the job description.  It's a known quantity going in and...

I update SSMS on my laptop only rarely (still running 18.9.1).  On servers it only gets updated when there is a security fix.  Given the level of disruption involved with...

I guess I'm a luddite as I use flash drives or SD cards almost daily.

SD cards for transferring files to the 3D printers (not network enabled devices) or from any...

Long ago when I was a young IT pro and still had that fresh out of school shine, I had dreams of an exciting IT career.  I was quickly instructed...

Most stressful year of my career was 2019 due to the projects involved.  Three datacenter migrations, several distributed applications doing once a decade level upgrades with almost no back out...

As others mention the correct fix is to get them to stop the failed logins.  Depending on the size of your organization that may take awhile.  In the meantime something...

Lack of dateline and dateline only at the bottom of the post are both pet peeves of mine.  Back around 2015 when the company I work for was moving everything...

I used to support an application that did consolidated reporting of data from remote sites.  Each remote site had a small Oracle database server which contained the data.  On the...

I'll second the reliability of a Synology NAS.  I've got a DS218+ set up with a pair of mirrored WD RED 10TB drives which has been running continuously for over...

I've found that doing and creating things in the physical world is critical to my mental health.  Working in IT the vast majority of my work hours are spent doing...

What we are doing on the process control side is setting up a local VMWare appliance to handle all the Windows and Linux servers in that realm.  HP and Dell...