My wife is a former clinical psychotherapist in private practice. Although I've been interested in the individual response to events and how those responses affects our worldviews, I'd never given the subject the deep thinking it deserves. When we were dating, I asked my future wife to dinner and a movie. When she found…
Social media has become a mainstream part of our lives. Day in and day out, most of us are using social media to do micro-blogging, interact with family, share photos, capture moments, and have fun. Over the years, social media has changed how we interact with others, how we use our language, and how we see the world.…
I really liked this piece by my SolarWinds associate Brandon Shopp on how project management is key to project success and requires a combination of technical and soft skills. Public sector IT departments have undergone sweeping modernization efforts, from virtualization and mobility to cloud computing and digital…
Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Brandon Shopp with ideas for protecting IT assets in battlefield situations. “Dominance” and “protection” sum up the Defense Department’s goals as U.S. armed forces begin to modernize their networks and…
I love watching those modern movies where IT works magically. In these movies, any average Joe with access to a computer or terminal can instantly access anything with seamless effort. Everything is clear and neat, we’re presented with impeccably clean data centers, long alleys of servers with no spaghetti cables lying…
Late April saw me and about 40,000 others in San Francisco, CA for RSA Conference. It was both my first time in San Francisco AND my first time experiencing RSAC. It was a time of great conversations, good food, and fun with the booth crew. Unfortunately, we couldn’t capture that much excellence in one picture, so there…
I read an interesting article today by Bill Brenner over at SearchSecurity about how network configuration can affect network security. You can read the article: here While this topic is somewhat parallel, the article got me to thinking about how many times we focus on what we have to do with regards to security vs. what…
On my last blog post I explained how Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is now integrated with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) and Network Performance Monitor (NPM) showing how now we can view application to VM to datastore performance, configuration and right sizing all in a single pane of glass. SolarWinds…
This year has thrown us through a loop and being stuck within our four walls eventually catches up with us all. Some of my hobbies are no longer safe and a new one needed to take its place. For me, accentuating the positive meant learning a new hobby. Finding the tools, information, time, and raw materials for making…
May the Fourth be with you! Happy Star Wars Day! May means the end of the school year for many of us in the U.S. with kids and many of those in university. I’m certainly looking forward to more quality time with my 13-year-old—when I can peel him (and myself) away from video games, though that’s not likely in early May…
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