Systems

Every website should have a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate—no exceptions. SSL certificates help encrypt the data that passes between end users and your site and verify your site is secure. However, they are designed to expire. If you’re not paying attention, you might forget to renew your certificate. SSL certificate monitoring tools enable you…

If you use a database, you’ll need to use a query language to communicate with and retrieve valuable information from your database. While there are many different query languages, Microsoft Structured Query Language, also known as SQL, is the most popular. Proactively monitoring and maintaining your SQL database can go a long way toward helping…

How your SQL Server instances perform depends on database and application design, CPU model, and more. One of the primary elements to consider is capacity, or whether the system has sufficient underlying resources such as memory and storage. To this end, you’ll want to have insights and strategies in place to perform effective capacity planning….

PostgreSQL is a widely used, highly advanced relational database system that serves as a query planner and optimizer. Postgres, as it’s often shortened to, uses an object-oriented approach, meaning the database information is represented as objects of classes. As an open-source tool, it’s built for compatibility and scalability alongside stability and security. Like all other…

Data storage has drastically changed over time. Storing your organization’s data used to be a simple process, but now data storage architecture can be complex and vast in size. This makes maintaining your data storage systems and data storage software potentially very complicated. What’s more, data can be physically and logically stored in unique ways…