I've had cause to do some investigation recently into best practices for planning, deploying, and managing VoIP. While I won't go into all of the details tonight, I did run across an interesting inconsistency. Most VoIP hardware/software vendors and consulting agencies that I've dealt with recommend a fairly telephony…
Last week I traveled to the Bay Area to present at the Gestalt IT Net Tech Field Day. I was going to write about how awesome it was - meeting many of the folks that I have followed online for years and collaborating with them about network management and general network engineering - but Brandon did such a great job of it…
Well, the first day of InterOp 2008 is behind us and what a day it was. A few thousand of you came by the booth today for free software, t-shirts, and to learn more about our software. Heck, we even had free beer from 3:00 to 5:00 when the show closed!!! If you're in Vegas this week stop by and see us and I'll hook you up…
In just a couple of weeks, thousands of people will be swarming San Francisco for VMworld! It promises to be a great time with lots of excellent networking and content. VMblog.com and SolarWinds are teaming up to make it even better!! We're hosting a vMixer on Monday night, and we'd love for you to join us! VMblog founder…
None of us are really normal. But when our tools make the things in our professional lives "normal," they make things a whole lot easier. What I'm talking about is a process commonly know as normalization. Normalization is the way in which a software program takes information from a variety of sources and translates it…
Recently Wally Mead joined us for a webcast about Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 and the Microsoft Management Summit. That webcast is now available for public viewing on YouTube. As often occurs in a webcast, we were unable to answer all of the questions presented. We thank all of the participants for their questions and I…
I'm flying out to Baltimore tomorrow and driving down to Virginia for a meeting Tuesday morning. I think I'll have a couple of extra hours on Tuesday afternoon and would love to go see one of our community members. Ping me on the blog or via e-mail to make contact... Flame on... Josh
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Even though fielding emergency calls on holidays is something system administrators have come to expect, resetting passwords while the family sits down to dinner can still put a damper on the holiday spirit. The workaholics in your office won't let a little something like Thanksgiving slow them down and as long as they are…
Be in the Know! Join the upcoming webcast on vital important of log & event management. Check out this post for more info:http://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/solarwinds-community/product-blog/blog/2012/05/02/upcoming-geek-speak-webcast-back-to-the-basics-of-log-event-management
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