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Hybrid Cloud and Software-Defined Data Center #syschat Recap
SolarWinds hosted a Twitter chat using #syschat to talk about hybrid cloud, software-defined data centers, converged infrastructure, and container technologies. We invited three distinguished technology SMEs: * Christopher Kusek (@cxi), pkguild.com * Dennis Smith (@DennisMSmith), TheDennisSmith.com * John Troyer…
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Visual Basic 101 (part 2)
In part one of this series, I discussed installing and setting up your Visual Basic environment in preparation for creating a bandwidth calculator for use with SAM's component monitors. In this installment, I'll explain how to create the visual elements of the calculator. Lesson 3 - The Build First, open Visual Basic and…
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New Webcast - Building a Blueprint for Secure Network Management
A few weeks ago we did a live seminar in DC and a blog post on the subject of building security into your network management strategy. Several of you that follow the blog e-mailed me directly to ask that we turn this into a webcast and so we've done just that. Friday of next week, May 14th, at 10:00 CDT, we're going to…
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Happy Veteran's Day from me and SolarWinds
I wanted to post this yesterday but I was stuck on an airplane on the East coast until well after midnight and couldn't seem to get any decent wi-fi access. Well, better late than never I guess so here goes... Of course, the reason that I was on the East coast is that I was meeting with some of our federal…
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Envisioning the Future Now (VI)
Ecce homo, behold the Mann. For 30 years Steve Mann has been iterating the EyeTap computing system through which he lives his daily life. A prosthesis over one of Mann’s eyes, the EyeTap simultaneously sends every image—via a beam-splitter—to the eye’s retina and also to a high resolution video camera. The camera’s image…
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Photo contest at Cisco Live (Networkers) Next Week!
Next week we're going to be hosting a booth at Cisco Live in Las Vegas (June 27th thru July 1st, 2010). As a cool part of the show we're sponsoring a photo contest. Come by the SolarWinds booth and get your picture taken with some of the Geek crew or with some of our Geek props and post the picture to Twitter using the…
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DameWare Remote Support Racks Up Another Win!
The Oscars, Grammys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and the WindowsNetworking.coms – That’s right….it’s awards season!! Sadly, the music, television, and motion picture associations have snubbed DameWare again, but all is not lost this season. On February 20, 2013 DameWare Remote Support (DRS) received another Readers’ Choice…
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NCSAM: SOX myths dispelled
Here we are in the third week of NCSAM and its time for some Security education!! The whole logic of educating someone is to dispel the myths. Talking to a lot of customers, we discovered that there are some invariably common myths and confusions around the SOX regulations, despite the varied spectrum of industries they…
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Sept. 11, 11 am: Join us For the Monthly "What We Are Working On" Webcast
Please join us for a monthly product update from the SolarWinds Product Management team. The team will cover what’s new, what’s coming, and what we’re thinking about for future releases. Each session will be very collaborative. We want to hear your thoughts, questions, and requests. September 11 In September, we’ll show…
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Security Risks of IPv6 in Your Network
Most networks by now are slowly making the transition from IPv4 addresses to IPv6. This new availability and abundance of global IPv6 addresses will enable businesses to easily provide services to their customers and internal users. However, there are a few things to make note of when you have IPv6 running in your network.…
