This week Infoworld published an article on the "Dirtiest Jobs in IT". When Dan, the author of the article, called me to talk about the story I got really excited because I have some strong memories (notice that I didn't say fond memories) of some really dirty jobs I've done. Most people think that being a network engineer…
Next week I'll be speaking at Cisco Live in beautiful Las Vegas Nevada. Cisco Live has always been one of my favorite shows and the lineup for this year looks fantastic. SolarWinds will be hosting a large booth (booth #1337) and we'll be giving away some cool items and you can stop by to see presentations by me and several…
Pre-requisites A reasonable understanding or experience of Visual Basic Scripting is assumed in order to successfully add custom scripts to CatTools. There are example code template files found in the /Templates sub folder of the CatTools root directory, that can help provide a reasonable level of assistance. Overview…
A VMKernel is a critical component of any virtual environment. VMKernel is the reason why your VMs are allocated with memory, CPU, and other resources from the physical hardware. What makes the VMKernel special is that it runs directly runs on the ESX/ESXi host. However, this doesn’t mean that performance and latency…
We’ve spoken in the past on how system administrators have no fixed working hours. You are usually at the mercy of your employees continuously troubleshooting and fixing their issues. It does not matter whether you’re at lunch, out of the office, or even on vacation. You get those “desperate situation” calls to fix users’…
Since I revisited the topic of AES encryption and NSA surveillance the Washington Post published information sourced through Edward Snowden that the NSA is spending $79.7 million to pursue a quantum computer capable of running Schor's algorithm. If and when the NSA succeeds, all the currently-unreadable AES-encrypted data…
Ok, fellow thwackers... we are getting down to the wire. The next 12 hours of voting will determine which games go on to compete to win the HIGH SCORE or go GAME OVER. If you haven't voted for your favorite game, you still have time on the clock. The final four round closes at MIDNIGHT tonight. Call of Duty is facing Grand…
Last week I was in Sydney Australia for the first ever SolarWinds live community event in the land down under. We've done several webcasts and web oriented events for our Australian community and the larger APAC region but this was the first time I've traveled to Australia in person to meet with our customers and community…
In case you haven’t seen it yet, the SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset version 10.1 is now available and includes some pretty cool new stuff. One of the coolest pieces of technology that 10.1 added is the new and improved traffic generator, WAN Killer. I recently had a chance to chat with the Toolset engineering team about…
Well, it's official. The wicked cool new version of Kiwi Syslog Server that I've been testing and filming videos on is now publicly available. You can read more about it and download a free copy here. The coolest new feature is the addition of a web based UI. It's ridonculous. Our guys over in New Zealand really did an…
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