This is a guest blog post from Altaro Software (http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v-backup/). Altaro Software are the developers of a Microsoft Hyper-V backup solution called Altaro Hyper-V Backup. Altaro Hyper-V Backup includes a freeware edition – a 5 minute YouTube demo can be seen here:…
No, it’s not the latest culinary invention from a famous Italian chef: spaghetti cabling (a nice wording for cabling inferno) is a sour dish we’d rather not eat. Beyond this unsavory term hides the complexity of many environments that have grown organically, where “quick fixes” have crystallized into permanent solutions,…
Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Mav Turner with ideas about how the government could monitor and automate their hyperconverged infrastructure to help achieve their modernization objectives. It’s no surprise hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This year’s theme is “accentuate the positive”– this post may or may not adhere to that theme. It’s tempting to shove all ambient turmoil into the strange 365-day-period we just experienced. Tempting to think the new year might just make everything a bit better by sheer virtue of the new number at the end of…
Cost plays a factor in most IT decisions. Whether the costs are hardware- or software-related, understanding how the tool’s cost will affect the bottom line is important. Typically, it’s the engineer’s or administrator’s task to research tools and/or hardware to fit the organization's needs both fiscally and…
FTP, FTPS and SFTP are the most widely used file transfer protocols in the industry today. All 3 of them are different in terms of the data exchange process, security provisions and firewall considerations. Let’s discuss how these are different so it’s easier for you to select the right protocol based your requirement.…
Until today, I hadn’t heard it called such, but I’ve worked in places that experienced a “backhoe” event. For anyone like me, who doesn’t know what this is, allow me to explain: A “backhoe” event is when someone—like a gardener, for instance—is doing some work around your office, removing plants, planting new things, etc.,…
A fiery debate arises when discussing flow technologies i.e. NetFlow vs. sFlow. As we all know, existing flow technologies act as a vital and viable solution to troubleshoot network and bandwidth issues. While network engineers contemplate which one is better, NetFlow and sFlow serve as an example of how flow technologies…
Four predominant IT use cases any network device configuration management tool must address are: * Configuration change management: scheduling device configuration backups, requiring change approval for configuration changes, scheduling execution of approved changed. * Compliance reporting: defining and enforcing…
Efficiently managing the performance of complex cloud environments requires more than monitoring and alerting Today’s cloud environments rely on microservices, service meshes, containers, and orchestration tools and are too complex for traditional tools to measure and monitor performance metrics effectively. The number of…
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