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Come see SolarWinds at Cisco Live! next week in San Francisco!!!
Booth #931 Free swag (T-shirts, USB keys, geek pins) Free geek drawings (yeah, like my avatar but of you) Free Mountain Dew (hey, we all get thirsty) Technology presentations every half hour by yours truly (hence why I get so thirsty) Follow the event thru Twitter if you can't attend in person (trust me, it'll be worth it)…
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Proactive Website Monitoring
Web application up-time is critical to any organization. Regardless of the applications being accessed from inside or outside the firewall, they need to be up and running all the time. So, it is critical to proactively monitor the availability and response time from one or more locations at all times, and isolate issues…
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Free money for Orion Reports...
I'm not sure how many of you are aware, but the SolarWinds marketing department is sponsoring a contest where you can win some cash for providing custom reports you've written for Orion. They don't need your data - just the report itself. Looks like you can win as much as $500 and I know that participation has been low so…
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SolarWinds on Cisco TechWise TV
We had the opportunity to appear and participate in an episode of Cisco's TechWise TV a few days ago on the subject of effect VoIP deployment and management. I thought the information was very good and we definitely got some great questions during the show. You can view the show by going here:…
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IT Blogger Spotlight: Ethan Banks of Ethan Banks on Networking and Packet Pushers
Last month, we shined our IT blogger spotlight on Michael Stump, who was one of the delegates at the recent Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld. This month, I figured why not keep it up? So, I tracked down the renowned Mr. Ethan Banks (@ecbanks), who also participated in the event. Without further ado, here’s what he had to…
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MARS Need(ed) Women!
Well, I guess technically MARS doesn't need anybody anymore, since Cisco is in the slow process of killing it. Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (MARS) is a SIEM product, and by many accounts, well-liked. As early as 2008, however, rumors of trouble in Cisco-MARS-land began to surface. The actual…
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Offline Patch Management made easy!!
We all know that patch management is a vital part of an organization's security management process, not just to stay abreast of bug fixes and new features but also to bring down the vulnerabilities. All said and done, there are two areas that remain a challenge: * The potential difficulty and complexity of getting updates…
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Top 2 Most Common Questions on SolarWinds Patch Manager
The two most frequently asked questions we have been asked lately on patch management are: • When will SolarWinds Patch Manager support System Center Configuration Manager 2012? • How long does it take for the Patch Manager team to turn around a package after the ISV has announced patch availability? Patch Manager will…
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Have You Appreciated Your Sys Admin Today?
Like Rodney Dangerfield would say, some System Admins feel that they "don't get no respect!" Me and some of our product managers, sales engineers, and other folks here at SolarWinds used to be Sys Admins, and lets face it -- as IT guys, most of us don't get the positive feedback we deserve for all of the things we do to…
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SolarWinds Help Desk Survey
Want a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card?! SolarWinds is running a short survey to understand the help desk challenges faced by IT technicians, help desk support staff, and those of you who support and manage your organization’s help desk processes. It’s just a short survey well worth a few minutes of your time. Let us…