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Postapocalyptic Networks
Just imagine the current situation continues well into the foreseeable future—let’s merge reality with a little fiction. The apocalypse is over, but life has changed permanently. This means we’re going to wear masks in public transport, shops, and restaurants and follow sports events on television instead of in the…
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Writing Challenge Day 6: Easy Home IT Upgrades
So, working from home and the web meeting crashes, eh? There’s an easy formula: AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH = Actual Bandwidth / (Gaming console + Netflix + Spotify + IoT Phone Home + Zoom/Webex/Teams + Aquarium livestream for the cat) If that’s a negative outcome, poor you. But don’t give up yet! You can always ask your ISP for a…
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Security Starts With People, Unfortunately.
One of the findings of our investigations pointed to a compromised account as a possible cause of the cyberoperation. While I was reading the results, I thought, “That could have been me. In fact, it could have been any of our employees,” and I began asking myself what I as an individual could do to increase the security…
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Disaster Recovery - Focus on the disaster first!
When organizations first take on the challenge of setting up a disaster recovery plan, it’s almost always based on the premise that a complete failure will occur. With that in mind, we take the approach of planning for a complete recovery. We replicate our services and VMs to some sort of secondary site and go through the…
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Hello, World!
Actually, this is very, very true. In the past few months—since March, basically—I’ve visited 4 continents, countless nations, and talked to thousands of business partners, customers, new employees, and people with a general interest in what’s new at SolarWinds and how we’re doing. The obvious reason for all the travel was…
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Five Ways to Achieve IT Cost Optimization
With information technology taking over the world's business sector, it’s necessary to understand digital transformation. According to Gartner1, digital transformation can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing) to digital optimization to the invention of new digital business models. The…
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Knowing Which Services Are Critical to a Business Service
In the age of exploration, cartographers used to navigate around the world and map the coastlines of unexplored continents. The coastline of IT, and moreover the inner landscapes and features, has become much more complex than a decade ago. The cost and effort needed to perform adequate mapping the old way has gone way…
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Geekly World News - July 2022 Edition
By the time this goes live, I’ll be happily on a family vacation in Florida, taking my kid into the fun realms of Marvel, Star Wars, Disney, Harry Potter, and more. He’s a great age to have fun at an amusement park with–old enough, we don’t spend all our time in the little kids’ section, and young enough, where everything…
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No, You Don’t Need a Blockchain
The hype around blockchain technology is reaching a fever pitch these days. Visit any tech conference and you’ll find more than a handful of vendors offering blockchain in one form or another. This includes Microsoft, IBM, and AWS. Each of those companies offers a public blockchain as a service. Blockchain is also the…
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Writing Challenge Day 2: Show Us Your Office Space
After over 20 years with the same company, I changed jobs. I started a new job in February 2020, and in early March, the new company moved the majority of the people out of the office. So like many others, I went to work at the house. At the house, there was an issue. I was in my wife’s way…all day. By the end of the week…