I like cake. Most people do, I suppose. And that’s why I use cake as an analogy in my classes and presentations whenever I talk about users, data, and performance. See, there are many, many layers of cake between users and their data. Some layers are thicker than others, some more delicious, and some more important. But…
In the VMworld 2013 keynote session in San Francisco Monday morning VMware made a number of announcements mostly related to software-defined data center (SDDC) capabilities. While they focused a lot on networking, storage and hybrid cloud, the capability that will probably have the most impact in the short term will be the…
Do you ever feel like you’re not taking full advantage of the power of your alerting system? Have you seen snippets of coolness from other users and wondered how they did it? Check out our head geeks in SolarWinds Lab Episode #3 as they discuss all four types of alerts in a single episode, with tutorials and hands on…
"The technological singularity is the theoretical emergence of superintelligence through technological means. Since the capabilities of such intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human mind to comprehend, the technological singularity is seen as an occurrence beyond which events cannot be predicted." - Wikipedia.…
I recently read a blog about Networking in the Cloud by Jeff Loughridge discussing the configuring of a network composed of both physical and cloud components. While he provided some insightful configuration examples and stressed the importance of working with your cloud provider, there was no mention of the impact on…
The largest population of the world, China, woke up last Sunday (25th August, 2013) to the most colossal distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to have rattled the Chinese digital age. With over 8 million websites affected[1] on .cn domains, the government has condemned this incident and dubbed it the biggest ever…
The evolution in mobile technology has changed the way we work. Gone are the days when work was only done on personal computers. Even laptops have slowly paved way to trendy mobile phones and tablets. With a new and sophisticated device hitting the market on a daily basis with better technological supremacy, employees are…
Week 4 of NCSAM and its time for some awareness on Cybercrimes!! With the continuous increase of cybercrimes, nearly every enterprise is affected in some way. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) recently conducted a survey on the Cybercrimes in the US. The survey revealed the following: * Organizations are not well-informed about…
Shellshock is the name given to a vulnerability detected in the Bash which allows attackers to remotely compromise vulnerable systems allowing for unauthorized disclosure of information. Ever since news of the bug came out and the original fix actually not fixing the issue, attackers have been using ‘masscan’ to find…
If you didn’t know earlier, SolarWinds Patch Manager is available on the easy-to-use intuitive Orion Web console. The Web console is available as part of the Patch Manager deployment, and displays data collected from the Patch Manager server. The Web console is built on the Orion platform so you can view it alongside your…
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