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Five Steps to Developing an Application Modernization Strategy
Supporting legacy applications is problematic for several reasons. These aging systems are becoming increasingly obsolete and difficult to maintain. They use outdated software languages and unsupported hardware parts—some as much as 50 years old. As they age, they introduce cybersecurity risk and are less effective at…
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Geekly World News - August 2022
As we approach the end of summer (and the start of another school year), I hope you’ve all managed to stay hydrated, avoid heat stroke, and enjoy the little things in life. As I mentioned last month, I’ve recently returned from a two-week vacation in Florida with my son, taking some much-needed bonding and fun time. We…
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SysAdmin Day 2020: Business as Usual During the "New Different"
I’m not going to even try to pretend SysAdmin Day arrives this year under conditions anyone would call “business as usual.” I’m going to avoid the cliched and empty platitudes of “the new normal,” “unprecedented times,” and “focusing on what matters.” I’m also going to avoid needlessly reminding you how much your company,…
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Troubleshooting Software Upgrade Code-Signing Certificate Errors
Tales From the Support Queue: A How-To Guide for Fixing Certificate Revocation Issues Digital Signing Certificate revocation is a common, transparent, and effective mechanism for application developers to help ensure users aren’t running unsupported or insecure software. It’s a demonstrably Good Thing. There’s one scenario…
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How is Cloud Adoption Changing Public School Education?
I really liked this piece by my SolarWinds® associate Brandon Shopp discussing how cloud adoption enables a personalized, collaborative, and immersive learning experience for students As the past year has shown, cloud computing has proved a vital service for K–12 public schools. It’s enabled online learning during a time…
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AI Never Sleeps in the Data Center
A data center typically employs between 30-200 people depending on the size and the intended project use. But only a fraction of those folks run the IT side. Besides swapping gear—the infamous “remote hands”—there isn’t much to do as long as there aren’t any outages, and rumor has it a data center is a nice place to…
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Time Is on My Side – With a Raspberry Time Server
I don’t like warnings in log files. Even if there’s no real impact—I guess it’s kind of an OCD thing. IT-OCD. I just invented it. I see something in yellow or red, I want to fix it. I have to. MUST…FIX… You know what bugged me for ages? Time sync-related errors and warnings, primarily on my Domain Controllers. Event ID 129…
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Homelabs Hurt So Good
Are you guys running homelabs? I’m following /r/homelab and the other day, a discussion captured my attention about the people behind their homelabs, and even more so their intentions. As it turns out, most folks who work in IT use labs only when they prep for a certification, and that’s it. And it’s perfectly fine. When…
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Do You Remember Face-toFace Events?
Good old times: In the first six weeks of 2020 I traveled between Ireland, Texas, Spain, and Germany. In the first six weeks of 2021 I traveled between home and the grocery store across the street. Events and conferences had first been cancelled, and later “virtualised,” like most of our work meetings. Virtual conferences…
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How to Utilize Your GDPR Data Privacy Rights – GDPR 6 Months Later
Not too long ago, GDPR was the major topic in many conversations around business and technology. It went "live" in May 2018, and since then, we haven’t heard much interesting news until recently, as a hospital in Portugal got caught with the first violation of the regulation. Well, the first we know of, at least. Also,…