Happy New Year! We hope you all celebrated a good and safe holiday, and you continue to be the amazing community members you are. We greatly appreciate your support and assistance now and always. What might you have missed in December? Writing Challenge Day 1: Connecting in a Disconnected World by Leon Adato December…
Looking back across the month, I’m blown away by the responses. This is nothing new. Each year has been an emotional and emotion-filled exercise in thoughtful exploration and introspection. But to see our community take precious time away from busier-than-usual days has been heartwarming. That each day’s lead article (not…
I won’t sugarcoat it—this was a challenging week to find focus amidst a rapidly churning news cycle and a lot of demands for time and attention. In that respect, the Writing Challenge has been a welcome refuge for many of us in the office (whether literally or metaphorically). Like a lot of folks, I didn’t get to write as…
This was our first full week of posts, and the experiences and observations everyone shared have been moving, insightful, and thought-provoking. I could not be more proud to be part of this community. Tonight in Pandemic Viewing... In what must be the largest collection of words I have ever seen from the hands of my…
In case anyone is not familiar with doomscrolling, here is Dictionary.com’s definition. doomscroll or doom-scroll [ doom-skrohl ] verb (used with or without object) Digital Technology. to obsessively check online news for updates, especially on social media feeds, with the expectation that the news will be bad, such that…
VMworld “day 0” was really just a precursor to what we’ll be seeing for the rest of the week. Today, there were no major sessions, but attendees were treated to the early opening of the exhibit floor where vendors galore have gathered to hawk their wares. As the biggest VMworld yet, it’s not a surprise that the show floor…
SolarWinds provides a solution for managing storage performance within virtualized environments by using the Storage Manager plugin enabled in Virtualization Manager's Configuration Wizard. Using these solutions can help you identify, diagnose, and correct issues in your virtual environment infrastructure. Resource…
The previous article on SANS Security Survey 2013 discussed about the security needs and challenges in enterprises to detect threats and the complexity to respond to breaches and attacks, etc. Further to detecting threats and responding to them, we got some insights on the kind of data used by organizations for security…
Over the last several months I, along with Head Geek and Microsoft MVP , have written several posts on thwack about a recent Microsoft patch for all supported Windows versions prior to Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. This patch invalidates all certificates that use encryption keys of fewer than 1024 bits. Most (if not…
Perusing through my virtualization blog feeds, a post from Amy Manley (@wyrdgirl) on her blog site, Virtual Chick, entitled "Solarwinds AppStack with SRM Flavor and More!" caught my attention. Amy is a fellow VMware vExpert and a certified virtualization unicorn. She was also a delegate at Virtualization Field Day 4, so…
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