I had the opportunity to recently interview Jim Shank of Douglas County School District, Castle Rock, CO. Jim is part of Douglas County’s infrastructure team which uses SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor to proactively monitor the schools’ servers and databases. JK: What are some SolarWinds products you’re currently…
Microsoft Lync is a commonly used collaboration application by organizations that runs a Windows environment. Employees in large organizations often use Lync as a medium to send chat messages, setup internal and external conference calls, share screens with remote users, and other call recording facilities. All this makes…
SolarWinds hosted a Twitter chat using #syschat to talk about hybrid cloud, software-defined data centers, converged infrastructure, and container technologies. We invited three distinguished technology SMEs: * Christopher Kusek (@cxi), pkguild.com * Dennis Smith (@DennisMSmith), TheDennisSmith.com * John Troyer…
In part one of this series, I discussed installing and setting up your Visual Basic environment in preparation for creating a bandwidth calculator for use with SAM's component monitors. In this installment, I'll explain how to create the visual elements of the calculator. Lesson 3 - The Build First, open Visual Basic and…
A few weeks ago we did a live seminar in DC and a blog post on the subject of building security into your network management strategy. Several of you that follow the blog e-mailed me directly to ask that we turn this into a webcast and so we've done just that. Friday of next week, May 14th, at 10:00 CDT, we're going to…
I wanted to post this yesterday but I was stuck on an airplane on the East coast until well after midnight and couldn't seem to get any decent wi-fi access. Well, better late than never I guess so here goes... Of course, the reason that I was on the East coast is that I was meeting with some of our federal…
Ecce homo, behold the Mann. For 30 years Steve Mann has been iterating the EyeTap computing system through which he lives his daily life. A prosthesis over one of Mann’s eyes, the EyeTap simultaneously sends every image—via a beam-splitter—to the eye’s retina and also to a high resolution video camera. The camera’s image…
Next week we're going to be hosting a booth at Cisco Live in Las Vegas (June 27th thru July 1st, 2010). As a cool part of the show we're sponsoring a photo contest. Come by the SolarWinds booth and get your picture taken with some of the Geek crew or with some of our Geek props and post the picture to Twitter using the…
The Oscars, Grammys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and the WindowsNetworking.coms – That’s right….it’s awards season!! Sadly, the music, television, and motion picture associations have snubbed DameWare again, but all is not lost this season. On February 20, 2013 DameWare Remote Support (DRS) received another Readers’ Choice…
Here we are in the third week of NCSAM and its time for some Security education!! The whole logic of educating someone is to dispel the myths. Talking to a lot of customers, we discovered that there are some invariably common myths and confusions around the SOX regulations, despite the varied spectrum of industries they…
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