In the transition to private cloud computing, Chargeback is becoming one key property that differentiates a highly virtualized environment from one that offers a true private cloud. Whether you plan to formally bill folks for their usage of the environment or simply perform some kind of “showback” or “shadow billing” (how…
Managing files has always been a challenge, and even in today's world of virtualization, automatic tiering and migration, finding out what files are really out there is still difficult - and even more important. In Profiler, file analysis rules allow you to find specific files across all your storage, local, SAN and NAS.…
As you wind down for the holidays, you want to get away from it all - as long as you feel secure nothing bad will happen while you are wrapping presents and drinking eggnog! Orion does quite the trick with the new Mobile Device View, but what about your storage? You want to make sure there are no Grinches stealing all your…
We are happy to announce that version 7.4 of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager ships the DISA STIG, NIST FISMA, and PCI DSS compliance reports out of the box. Wait -- that's not all! For DISA STIGs, we now support Brocade, Dell, Cisco, Juniper, and Palo Alto. The NIST FISMA and PCI reports have been developed for…
In a previous blog post, we explored how to create a Virtualization Manager dashboard that tracked the total vRAM pool, host CPU sockets and the number of vSphere 5 licenses required for each edition based on VMware’s recently announced vSphere 5. Last week (presumably based on customer feedback), VMware announced a slight…
Date/Time: Thursday, Feb 10, 2011 11:00 AM- 12:00 PM CST Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/707934872 Please join us on Thursday, February 10th at 11:00 AM CST for an exclusive training session on network configuration management. During this webcast we’ll demonstrate best practices for network configuration…
As you might imagine, we here at SolarWinds get to talk to quite a few folks in the IT world, and we hear many interesting stories and product uses. I wanted to share one particular anecdote with you as it really does seem to be a nightmare scenario for some of our customers. No one in IT is a stranger to digital piracy.…
It hasn’t been very long since EminentWare joined the SolarWinds family and we are already working on the next release of SolarWinds Patch Manager. You can get a full run down of all the features we are working on for this release here, but the one that I wanted to focus on today is Microsoft SCCM 2012 (also known as…
How many times have you heard this? How many times does it look like everything is fine to you? If this is you, then read on. You’ve probably heard about NetFlow and you may have even seen it at a tradeshow, but what you may not know is that this core technology is built into your existing infrastructure. So, how can you…
Date/Time: NA/LATAM-Thursday April 21, 2011 11:00 AM CDT EMEA- Thursday April 21, 2011 1:00 PM GMT APAC- Wednesday April 20 11 AM SGT To sign up: NA/LATAM- https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/200908976 EMEA- https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/344221472 APAC- https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/197966576 Description:…
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