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Enterprises organizations today spend a great deal of time investing in ways to lower their carbon footprint, but green IT is one area that is often missing.

Now, you might be thinking, green IT? It’s all online; isn’t it already environmentally sustainable…

Flexible alarm notification helps reduce your mean time to resolution (MTTR) — New in Foglight 6.1

Foglight® by Quest® has always had robust alarm management capabilities, like the alarm templates wizard we introduced in Foglight 6.0 to simplify…

Organizations face new challenges when they use or sell cloud-based applications. This post describes three use cases that pose challenges, as well as opportunities for cost-savings and improved customer experience through database performance tuning…

In my last blog, we discussed various business uses for turning Oracle database transactions into “business events”, and how SharePlex can be used to capture Oracle Change Data and write that data to a Kafka message queue.

In this blog, we…

The Quest Foglight Evolve Consolidation Advisor is designed to help those involved with cloud management plan future consolidations of existing environments. Those environments could exist of both virtual machines and physical servers/hosts.

The Consolidation…

Your backups are getting pretty fat, so you decide to try cloud backup.

“Straight out the door and into cloud storage,” you tell your fellow admins. “That way we don’t need to worry about storage space.”

Indeed, your capacity…

Patching, Upgrading or Migrating your Oracle Database can leave you feeling that you're in the midst of the same tornado that swept Dorothy into the Land of Oz; and you might run into some of the same characters as well. Here's how SharePlex, Quest's…

Digital transformations are everywhere, and so are challenges

Digital transformation is creating many challenges for businesses including data platform diversity, IT skills gaps, cost control (especially cloud) and a more complex technical environment…

Let’s assume you’ve decided to pursue an Exchange Online migration. Is your move motived by the 0-day exploits being perpetrated against Exchange servers by HAFNIUM? Perhaps you simply just want to take advantage of all the benefits that moving…

Cloud object storage and the strategic use of cloud tiering are hot trends for data protection, but you need to balance cost and speed for the best solution. So how can you get the best of both worlds? To start, be sure you have the right data protection…

In my last blog, we were discussing the HAFNIUM attacks and the probable impacts an Exchange Online migration may have on your infrastructure, systems, and internal processes within your organization. If you missed part one about whether on-premises Exchange…

Digital transformation is everywhere

Organizations are changing fast to keep up with business demands. Digital transformation is being driven by the business, but IT (central and business-run) is making it happen. As they take on new database platforms…

Cloud migration is speeding up

Not surprisingly, cloud migration – the movement of data and applications to the cloud from on-premises hardware – has been a significant trend for several years. Approximately 80-90% of companies today have cloud operations…

Is there a database skills gap for complex hybrid IT environments?

In research published by Unisphere Research in 2020, the database professionals they surveyed responded that 84% had two or more database platforms in use and 31% had four or more. That…

Thanks for sticking with me through my eight predictions for 2021! Here’s a quick recap of the first seven:

1. Ransomware victims will face penalties.
2. Your digital reputation will come under attack.
3. Zerologon will continue to cause pain for IT pr…

Subscription services are not new. In fact, it might interest you to know that the subscription business model was pioneered by publishers of books and periodicals as far back as the 17^th century.

Whether you lease a car, donate to charity or pay for…

As hybrid cloud becomes more prevalent, the challenges of cloud adoption and using multiple cloud platforms are compounded as complexity increases. In this blog, we’ll examine some of the major risks an organization and its leaders face when hybrid cloud…

There is nothing simple about building, managing, or auditing technical environments anymore. Technology has always been challenging and does require a unique mind set and set of talents, but even more so as layers of technology have been added over the…

One of the primary needs of those responsible for maintaining the health of database environments is to efficiently find poorly performing queries. Are there resource-intensive queries running? Are there long-running queries running? Who is running them…

Performance tuning a database is mostly a science, but with cloud vs. on-premises databases it’s more like an art. You have to take into account the type of organization, the individuals performing the tuning and the systems involved.

You also need…

As a CIO, you’re on the firing line when your organization’s cloud service costs are rising at the same time that your cloud application performance is falling.

“Wait, what?” you wonder. “Shouldn’t that be the other way around?”…

In case you missed the December webcast, “Mitigate Your Oracle Database to AWS Cloud Migration Challenges,” you can catch the replay on Quest.com.

Representing Quest® is John Pocknell, senior solutions product manager in information management…

It’s common for IT solutions to solve a challenge or two. What’s uncommon is the vast amount of database challenges you can solve with SharePlex^®. This affordable data replication solution is a powerhouse of a tech tool, regarded as the…

How is your database performance holding up in the midst of all the #WorkingFromHome (WFH)? Are you relying on database monitoring more than before COVID-19? Less? About the same?

It’s not so hard to combine database monitoring with keeping social…