Welcome to the latest installment of our IT Blogger Spotlight series here on Geek Speak. It’s been a while, but we’re back at it and have a good one to get us going again: Dwayne Lessner, who runs IT Blood Pressure. Check the blog out! You won’t be disappointed. You can also find Dwayne on Twitter, where he goes by…
Leverage the integrated power of SolarWinds IP Address manager (IPAM) User Device Tracker (UDT). With this dynamic duo, you can track down a device and user instantly. Simply use the integrated view to see IP address information along with the corresponding switch port details and user information—all within the same…
Hello out there. I'm out in sunny Orlando Florida at Cisco Networkers Live this week. Come by the booth and see us if you're out in this neck of the woods... Flame on... Josh
You've heard of "rightsizing," right? When it refers to an organization, it heralds a stressful time waiting for that pink slip. When it refers to a virtual infrastructure, it also heralds a stressful time, though without the pink slip. Let's say you're in charge of your organization's virtual infrastructure. Some people…
Now that I’ve had a chance to consider Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm, I’m excited about what this might do for my beloved franchise. Disney is a franchise factory, but they’re good at keeping the machinery out of the way. They strive for great stories with memorable characters. It may well assimilate Lucasfilm, move the…
Software as a Service (SaaS) sounds like a terrific deal, because it requires relatively little money up front. You only pay for what you use each month. And then there’s no worry about upgrades, support, or maintenance. All you have to do is pay and play, right? Well, it’s not necessarily that simple. For example, with…
Readers’ choice awards are the best kinds of awards to win. They take all of the suspicion out of the process, and just focus on the thing that matters the most: the users’ experience. That’s why we are so flattered that SolarWinds Log & Event Manager recently won the Readers’ Choice GOLD Award for the Best of SIEM 2012…
There may be other items in the news competing your time, but we happen to think this one deserves special attention: Firewall Security Manager version 6.6 (released November 12) includes a new feature: an Orion Module. The Orion Firewall Security Manager Module enables you to view all your firewall details from the Orion…
Security is always a good thing when it comes to websites and confidential information. When a website uses Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), it can be more vulnerable to attacks vs. using Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Security (HTTPS) which is HTTP integrated with the Secure Socket Layer (SSL). It is the SSL which…
Activities are rolling ahead for this year’s Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), which will be held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas from April 7th through April 12th. For those of you with a bend for country music, you might also be aware that the Association of Country Music awards are taking place on the opening day of…
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