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RSAC - Golden Gate Goodness
Late April saw me and about 40,000 others in San Francisco, CA for RSA Conference. It was both my first time in San Francisco AND my first time experiencing RSAC. It was a time of great conversations, good food, and fun with the booth crew. Unfortunately, we couldn’t capture that much excellence in one picture, so there…
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Network Configuration and its effect on Network Security
I read an interesting article today by Bill Brenner over at SearchSecurity about how network configuration can affect network security. You can read the article: here While this topic is somewhat parallel, the article got me to thinking about how many times we focus on what we have to do with regards to security vs. what…
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Taking the guessing game out of datastores and LUNs - Volume II
On my last blog post I explained how Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is now integrated with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) and Network Performance Monitor (NPM) showing how now we can view application to VM to datastore performance, configuration and right sizing all in a single pane of glass. SolarWinds…
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Writing Challenge Day 8: My New Hobby: Lessons Learned
This year has thrown us through a loop and being stuck within our four walls eventually catches up with us all. Some of my hobbies are no longer safe and a new one needed to take its place. For me, accentuating the positive meant learning a new hobby. Finding the tools, information, time, and raw materials for making…
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Geekly World News - May 2023
May the Fourth be with you! Happy Star Wars Day! May means the end of the school year for many of us in the U.S. with kids and many of those in university. I’m certainly looking forward to more quality time with my 13-year-old—when I can peel him (and myself) away from video games, though that’s not likely in early May…
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The State of Data Security and Privacy – Things Are Getting Worse
The concern for individual privacy has been growing since the 19th century when the mass dissemination of newspapers and photography became commonplace. The concerns we had then -- the right to be left alone and the right to keep private what we choose to keep private -- are now echoed in conversations carried on today…
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Insights From the Women in Tech Global Conference 2022: Part One
The second week of June hosted the Women in Tech Global Conference for 2022, and SolarWinds graciously sponsored attendance for a large group of employees, myself included. You may be wondering why I'm sharing this so long after the event, but the answer is other things got in the way, like other events and vacation, yet I…
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Application Dependency Mapping: Security and Ongoing ADM
Application Dependency Mapping: Security and Ongoing ADM Well, here we are. Finally, on the last post of this series. If you have not been following along, you can find the previous posts: part one, part two, part three, part four, and part five. And, if you have been following along, I hope you have found at least…
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Geekly World News - March 2022
Wow, March already? Time has flown by so far in 2022. This GWN is a little delayed because we were so busy with THWACKcamp™! I hope everyone enjoyed it and filled out their post-event surveys to help us make THWACKcamp even better next year. We love putting on this event for you, and we want it to be better and better…
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Preparing Your Network for the Impact of Digital Twins
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting blog that discusses digital twins, and emerging technology with network impacts; I think it’s something federal IT folks should keep an eye on. Digital twin technology is the ability to create a digital representation of a physical…