or “It’s not just the cost of buying the puppy, it’s the cost of feeding the puppy that adds up” This is a story I've told out loud many times, on conference calls, and around water coolers. But I've never written it down fully until now. This is the story of how using the wrong tool for the job can cost a company so much…
Hey Everyone! My name is Ryan Booth and I’ve been given the opportunity to post as an Ambassador focusing in on the Network Management section of Thwack. I'm excited to get the opportunity to bounce my thoughts and ideas off everyone and look forward to the conversations. The overall theme for my posts will be the growing…
Container technology is catching on big-time in the federal government as agencies such as the USDA and the National Institutes of Health look to containers to simplify software development and reduce costs. Containers offer enormous advantages over traditional “waterfall” application development processes. A containerized…
This post is post one in a small series, taking an atypical look at the public cloud and why you may or may not want to leverage it. Part 2 asks the question I'm Still On-Premises, Is That OK? and in part 3 we explore SaaS in Beyond IaaS, Cloud for the SMB, the Enterprise, and Beyond! Did you know AWS came about partly…
We’ve entered the last quarter of 2022, and October marks the start of my favorite time of year— the holiday season. We’re big on Halloween in this house, so we’re definitely excited to kick off the holidays right; gathering with friends and family, eating too much, and relaxing more. Meanwhile, in Head Geek™ land, it’s…
Running a traditional data center infrastructure for years can put your company in a rut, especially when it’s time to pick a new solution. When electing to trade out your traditional infrastructure for a sleek new hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), it can be a difficult paradigm to shift. So many questions can arise in…
My wife is a former clinical psychotherapist in private practice. Although I've been interested in the individual response to events and how those responses affects our worldviews, I'd never given the subject the deep thinking it deserves. When we were dating, I asked my future wife to dinner and a movie. When she found…
Social media has become a mainstream part of our lives. Day in and day out, most of us are using social media to do micro-blogging, interact with family, share photos, capture moments, and have fun. Over the years, social media has changed how we interact with others, how we use our language, and how we see the world.…
I really liked this piece by my SolarWinds associate Brandon Shopp on how project management is key to project success and requires a combination of technical and soft skills. Public sector IT departments have undergone sweeping modernization efforts, from virtualization and mobility to cloud computing and digital…
Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Brandon Shopp with ideas for protecting IT assets in battlefield situations. “Dominance” and “protection” sum up the Defense Department’s goals as U.S. armed forces begin to modernize their networks and…
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