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DNA Data Storage
Gleaning solutions from nature Some years ago in an Object Oriented Database class, the professor proclaimed, look to nature for elegant solutions to complex IT problems. I remember my fellow classmates' suspended breaths of disbelief, but today the full meaning of his message comes clearly into focus in the article,…
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Needle in the Haystack- Kiwi Syslog
Kiwi Syslog Server can help you manage the large volume of messages you are getting from your devices. Simply create filters and actions that will weed out insignificant events and then act upon important ones. A good example is to send a text message when a site to site tunnel is dropped. Keep in mind that you can use any…
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SolarWinds Lab at Cisco Live! Day 3
Day 3 at Cisco Live Orlando! The show is in full swing. Patrick and Lawrence discuss the neat things they have seen so far, what’s going on in the booth, cool features you already have in your products that you might not even know about (drop by to get a demo of those), and our cool booth giveaways! Booth #629!
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BYOD - Bring Your Own Device - more trouble than it's worth or just what the doctor ordered?
In today's age of iPhones, Androids, iPads, and Kindles - it's not uncommon for employees to spend more time working on their personally owned computing devices than the ones issued to them by their companies. For example, while SolarWinds has issued me a laptop and a server (I use it as a wicked fast desktop), I do about…
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Defining VM Sprawl
Zombies spawning and spreading like a cancer, leaving crying orphans in their wake. Rogues flitting in the background, hirable for a price and always ready to stab you in your back. These all sound like elements to a cheap, zombie apocalypse film, but spawning, zombies, orphans, and rogues are actually components of VM…
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Visual Basic 101 (part 3)
In part one this series, I described installing the Visual Basic IDE. In part two, we created the foundation of the bandwidth calculator with all the necessary objects put into place. Now, in part three, we'll discuss the coding. Lesson 4 - The Coding The first question you may have is, "Where does the code go?" From the…
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Network Outage Prevention and Recovery
Last week's storm, Sandy, left more than a million people without connectivity, or even electricity. On September 11. 2001, the attack on the World Trade Center in New York put the largest stress on a telephone network ever. According to CNN Money’s David Goldman, in the article What O.J., Katrina, and 9/11 did to AT&T's…
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Top 5 Automation Features to Manage Ticket Volumes with Ease
Time and again, when an organization grows, so do the problem tickets on the help desk software console. In an ideal situation, all help desk tickets can be addressed one by one. Inevitably, you get ticket flooding. Fortunately, there are ways to avoid drowning. A recent SolarWinds help desk survey (April 2013), showed: *…
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Creating Custom Activities in CatTools
Should the CatTools built-in activities not suffice your requirements, you can create your own custom activities and script activities. Pre-requisites A reasonable understanding or experience of Visual Basic Scripting is assumed in order to successfully add custom scripts to CatTools. However, the help file documentation…
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Product announcement - Storage and Virtualization Management from SolarWinds
It's hard to imagine working in a company nowadays that doesn't leverage shared storage and virtualization. These technologies have revolutionized the ways that we think about computing resources, server technologies, and our data centers as a whole. I mean think about it, without these technologies things would be…