In most office environments, power strips or surge protectors are a normal, everyday device that most of our computers, printers, copiers, etc. are plugged into. They’re fairly innocuous and probably something we take for granted, right? Just a normal piece of equipment in our office. What if that power strip was actually…
Sitting back at the office getting work done, keeping the ship afloat, living the Ops life of the perception of DevOps, only to have your IT Director, VP or CxO come and demand, “Why aren’t we using Containers! It’s all the rage at FillInTheBlankCon!” And they start spouting off the Container of the week, Kubernetes,…
This week I've been out in Denver attending the annual IPv6 Summit put on by the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force. It was a fantastic conference and the fact that it's free is almost too good to be true. I first got interested in this particular conference because two of the speakers are old buddies of mine from my days back…
So far in this virtualization series, we’ve discussed its history, the pre-eminence of server virtualization, the issues it has created, and how changing demands placed on our infrastructure are leading us to consider virtualizing all elements of our stack and move to a more software-defined infrastructure model. In this…
By Paul Parker, SolarWinds Federal & National Government Chief Technologist With 2018 two-thirds over, federal agencies should be well into checking off the various cloud migration activities outlined in the American Technology Council’s Federal IT Modernization Report. Low-risk cloud migration projects were given…
Here’s the fifth part of the series I’ve been writing regarding HCI. Again, I don’t want to sway my audience from one platform to another. Rather, I want them to follow the edict caveat emptor. It’s mission-critical for the future of the environment we’re talking about here for the buyer to be aware of the available…
In the first two parts of this series, we looked at both the history of virtualization and the new set of problems it’s introduced into our infrastructures. In part three, we’ll investigate its evolution and how it will continue to be part of our technology deployments. A Software-Defined Future The future for…
The Cisco Catalyst 3850 is a fixed, stackable GE (Gigabit Ethernet) access layer switch that converges wired and wireless within a single platform. This switch is based on Cisco’s programmable ASIC named Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) which supports the convergence as well as allows for deployment of SDN and Cisco ONE…
Whether it be at work or in my personal life, I like to plan ahead and be readily prepared. Specifically, when it comes to allocating storage, you definitely need to strategically plan your allocation. This is where Thin Provisioning comes in—organizations can adopt this strategy to avoid costly problems and increase…
Microsoft Ignite 2015 concluded its inaugural event with 20k+ attendees. The SolarWinds team united in the Windy City, Chicago, to provide the single point of truth in IT monitoring for the continuous delivery and integration era with Ignite attendees. SolarWinds also teamed up with Lifeboat Distribution and hosted a…
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