In this recent blog post post by Earl Perkins of Gartner, he describes some of the factors behind the increased challenge of supporting mobile workers for security and access to mobile applications. Some of those trends include: * The improved capabilities (ease of use) of different multiple devices is causing pressure on…
The Affordable Care Act and Network Security – Are You Ready? Worried about how the Affordable Care Act’s requirements are going to affect your network in 2014? January 2014 is when U.S. states are required to have Health Insurance Exchanges (HIEs) available for consumers to buy health insurance from. Access to the HIEs is…
Greetings All! I'm in the Big Apple, New York City, this week ... doing a presentation Wednesday morning at the Cybit Expo. Cybit is a "computer forensics" show, which focuses on Cyber Security and IT Security. My presentation is titled "Sharing Without Sacrifice: Managing Systems and Mitigating Risk in Today's Virtual…
Overloading your Kiwi Syslog Server can occur in many ways. The first and most obvious way, is when there is a non-zero value in the "Message Queue overflow" section of the Kiwi Syslog Server diagnostic information. A non-zero value indicates that messages are being lost due to overloading the internal message buffers.…
According to the 2012 Aflac WorkForces Report, nearly half of US workers are somewhat likely to look for a job this year. These are the good employees, too. In this survey, they overwhelmingly self-described themselves as: * Hard workers * High achievers * Highly educated * Ambitious So as an employer, manager, or…
Even if your company isn’t an ecommerce-based operation, your organization is bound to be chock full of web apps. These are probably a mix of: * third-party SaaS applications like Salesforce and Netsuite * behind-the-firewall applications like SharePoint, a bug tracking system, project tracking systems, etc. * externally…
This week I had the opportunity to discuss some network troubleshooting tips with Chris Pirillo at Lockergnome. If you're interested, you can watch the segment on YouTube.com by visiting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVjuRBL9s9Q Thanks, Josh
In larger organizations, it is very common for different people to have responsibilities to manage different blocks of subnet address spaces for their respective departments/divisions/regions. SolarWinds IPAM provides the ability for your IP Address Management tasks to be divided up amongst different people/groups, such as…
We recently partnered with Network World to conduct a survey on IT certifications and I must say that the results surprised me, even though I was already a fan of IT certifications. You can click here to see the full results, but to summarize: * 60% of the respondents said that having an IT certification helped them land a…
I recently interviewed Alex Hoang of Presidio. He is a SolarWinds partner who resells SolarWinds monitoring products. Presidio generally serves large Cisco shops who are implementing datacenter infrastructure projects. JK: Why do your clients want to purchase SolarWinds products? AH: While we are in the envisioning phase,…
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