Under the leadership of innovative CIOs—Chief Information Officers—the public sector is blazing new trails and focusing on things like digital transformation to provide constituents with the best services available in the most efficient way possible. While digital transformation will impact the way federal and state…
All of us are aware of the Java 7 update 21 that plugs 42 security holes, aren’t we? Oracle issues update for Java to fix security issues, root certificate changes, algorithm changes, and code level bug problems every four months, and provides a collection of critical patch updates and non-security fixes. With Java Update…
The IPAM DHCP Split Scope Wizard Split scopes are used to for several reasons, either to perform load balancing between two DHCP servers, or to ensure high availability DHCP services for your network. When you split a scope, the primary server is responsible for a certain group of IP addresses, and the secondary is…
In the spirit of the year-end listing ritual, here are Top 5 web services outages in order of magnitude. * GoDaddy * Amazon Web Services (December 24) * Amazon Web Services (October 22) * Amazon Web Services (June 29) * Google App Engine (October 26) Yes, the list seems to pose the question of what’s going on with the AWS…
Well, I'm back in the office from vacation just in time for a short work week (couldn't have planned that better). In case anybody's curious, I've spent the last week chasing pheasants across Western Kansas and had a blast. Greg (a.k.a Sparky) one of our senior architects and Dan (a.k.a LT) our most senior tech support…
A networking problem can come from almost any fault within the infrastructure, whether it’s a bandwidth bottleneck, configuration issues, or a faulty networking component. But more than half of IT system outages are caused by hardware failure. The ability to quickly identify and resolve hardware issues goes a long way…
IT typically leads the charge on selecting, implementing, and maintaining the organization’s IT Service Management (ITSM) platform of choice. Over time we see ITSM solutions become an integral resource to connect employees and IT. Once you’ve completed your initial ITSM implementation and you start the day-to-day grind of…
Heaven on Earth would be a world with no outages. No slow load times. No failed switches or routers. No bandwidth issues. Just peace and quiet. But if nothing were to go wrong on a daily basis, what would IT pros spend their time doing? Outages make up a large part of an IT pro’s job. Monitoring networks and finding the…
The answer to troubleshooting network challenges lies in effectively monitoring your environment. But saying “let’s monitor our network” presumes you know what you should be looking for, how to find it, and how to get it without affecting the system you’re monitoring. You’re also expected to know where to store the values,…
Hopefully, you all had a safe and spooky Halloween last weekend and a good time raising Cybersecurity Awareness in October. In case you missed it, SentryOne joined the SolarWinds family last month. We’re very excited to continue growing our portfolio of database monitoring and management products. Look for Tom’s thoughts…
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