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10 Orion Platform Connected Use Cases You Should Know
Part 1 IT environments are getting increasingly complex and can often straddle on-premises gear, private cloud, public and/or multi-cloud, and SaaS environments... oh, and it’s a moving target. Your legacy applications may have to reincarnate in one of these forms with minimal disruption. And when things go wrong, you need…
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Is your Business safe from Ransomware?
As we move into the New Year, it is time for us to have a look at some threats that we need to be guarded against. In this blog post, let us look at how Ransomware is likely to become more sophisticated in 2014. Here are a few trends observed this year that may well continue well into 2014, with some new and interesting…
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Hacking For Regular IT People - Where to Start?
If you’ve developed a desire to learn more about hacking or to try a little hacking yourself, there are a lot of resources at your disposal to get started. Keep in mind, our premise here is how to hack without breaking any laws, which is important to remember. That being said, there’s nothing illegal about talking about…
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Geekly World News - February 2022
We hope your 2022 has started off well. February may be a short month, but it’s sure to be busy. Here, we, the Head Geeks along with many others, are deep in THWACKcamp preparations. We’re very excited for the 10th edition of this virtual event and hope y’all will be joining us this year. Check out the link to the agenda…
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Understanding the Value of Customer Service
A week or so ago I took a short vacation down to Belize. I'd had the trip planned for months and had everything all lined up - flights, hotels, car service to and from the airport - you name it I planned it. I'm sort of a psycho that way. Everything went fantastically - for all of about 90 minutes after we left my house...…
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Securing the Open-Source Supply Chain
Open-source software (OSS) is the foundation for most platforms built today. It’s hard to imagine any software product in today’s world not using OSS. But is OSS more secure? There are always inherent risks with any usage of OSS, but a few best practices can help reduce these risks. OSS has published sources, and even…
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How to Futureproof IT Environments Without Going Into Technical Debt
Federal IT pros are experts at using quick fixes to keep costs down and save time, often because there’s no other option. They essentially leap from crisis to crisis instead of future-proofing the agency’s IT environment. Paying down technical debt is neither easy nor glamorous, but without this paydown, you’re creating a…
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The Road to Network Management –with stops on Network monitoring, Bandwidth monitoring, network configuration and many more
I joined SolarWinds a few weeks ago as a Product Marketing Manager. Though I had worked as a PMM earlier at AOL for Winamp, I still found that I have a lot to learn about the Network Management space (as well as how SolarWinds has remained so successful in it). In my usual fashion, I began gathering a list of sources to…
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Geekly World News - January 2022
Welcome to 2022! I know this issue is late and short (sorry!), but we take time off, too. Thankfully, we’ve been enjoying some recuperative time off, and we hope y’all have also taken some time to rest and recharge. The new year means new opportunities, and we’re already hard at work. I hope y’all have something good to…
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Announcing the 2020 December Writing Challenge: "Accentuate the Positive"
“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.”—Anna Quindlen The act of writing is always a personal one. Even with supposedly dry, technical content, authors can’t help bringing a piece of themselves to the work. This is why at SolarWinds, we eagerly anticipate the December Writing Challenge each year.…