We are pleased to announce that NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) version 4.0 is now available. Using the flow technology that is built into most routers you can see who, what, and how your network traffic and bandwidth is being used. The notable benefits of version 4.0 include: * Larger networks will benefit from a dramatic…
When he’s not blogging, Michael McNamara is a technical consultant for a large health care provider in the Philadelphia area and a husband and father to three girls. He describes himself as a “jack of all trades” in his current job, with primary responsibility for data and voice infrastructure while also supporting Windows…
Dare to Thrive is the theme at VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) 2015. And that theme is reflected by the BIG online event, the new beginning, and the PEX experience. Announcement First off, there is VMware's Online Launch Event on February 2nd. Tech buzzwords like software defined data centers (SDDC) software defined…
Jeff Schertz is a Lync / Unified communications guru presently based in Chicago, IL. He has been a Microsoft MVP since 2008, and has made voluminous contributions to the Microsoft Technet forums, and the community at large via his blog. Jeff has been in IT for upwards of 15 years and has followed the time-honored…
For the majority of us, online shopping has become the norm. A recent Cisco research study found that 78% of all U.S. shoppers use the Internet to research to purchase products and services. Cisco's study also includes a cool infographic that shows the growing ways in which consumers use the Internet to shop. As this…
If you've been working to improve network availability (MTBF and MTTR) then you know how difficult it can be. While an annual up-time of 99.9% is stellar, it nevertheless equals nearly nine hours of network downtime. And with downtime costs ranging from $100K to $300K per hour this represents $900 thousand to $2.7 million…
We had an awesome week in the SolarWinds booth at TechEd North America. It's great being able to meet and chat with our customers, and we were particularly surprised at the number of SolarWinds customers attending TechEd NA this year. We talked about all the products, but especially a lot about SAM and Patch Manager, and…
We’ve been examining Scott Lowe’s competitive matrix for the virtualization management in a series of blog posts over the last week or so, and today it’s time to turn our attention toward Veeam. We’ve compiled a detailed feature comparison of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager vs. Veeam One based on Scott’s post if you’d…
End-to-end performance monitoring sounds great! You have a handle on all of your applications and supporting resources so you can quickly figure out which resource/component is causing the application performance issue. Now, let’s implement that vision. This could be tricky if you are not a subject matter expert in all…
To all of you system administrators out there, Happy SysAdmin Day!!! Too often do we forget our system administrators, without whom our jobs would pretty much be impossible... Folks, I know that this can sometime be a thankless job, but believe or not we do appreciate you. So to all of you SysAdmins out there - whether you…
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