End-to-end performance monitoring sounds great! You have a handle on all of your applications and supporting resources so you can quickly figure out which resource/component is causing the application performance issue. Now, let’s implement that vision. This could be tricky if you are not a subject matter expert in all…
To all of you system administrators out there, Happy SysAdmin Day!!! Too often do we forget our system administrators, without whom our jobs would pretty much be impossible... Folks, I know that this can sometime be a thankless job, but believe or not we do appreciate you. So to all of you SysAdmins out there - whether you…
There's going to be a SolarWinds customer event in Austin next week (Tuesday). If you're in or near the area drop me a note and I'll get you the details. Josh
"There's an app for that" is one of my favorite slogans. Do you want to look up a famous quote? Count your consumed calories? Look up a reference on regular expressions? There's an app for that. There are probably several hundred apps for that. Do you need to remotely manage your network? Restart your servers? Manage user…
As many of you probably know, today is Veteran's Day here in the United States. It's been an especially good week for me as yesterday was also the 235th birthday of the United States Marine Corps and I got to have lunch that day with two friends that had the distinct honor of serving as US Marines. Coincidentally, it was…
Everything seems to be going virtual anymore, doesn’t it? This is not always a great thing (think virtual operators who answer your phone calls when you call anyone from your doctor’s office to the state Motor Vehicles agency). But sometimes, like in the case of a virtual machine, virtualization is a great thing, because…
Next week, I’ll be flying out to the Bay Area for VMworld 2010. I don’t mind saying that escaping Austin TX and the 107-degree weather here sounds really good right about now!!! This will be my first time at VMworld, so I’m pretty excited to see what type of show VMware puts on. In particular, I’m looking forward to…
Hola amigos - I'm writing this from Barcelona :)Iwanted to share an idea we are working here at SolarWinds to get some feedback on the relative importance to you. We’ve been looking at developing a solution forconfiguring various services on the Cisco PISA card. These cards ship withsome advanced functionality like the…
Today I'm finalizing content and flying out to San Jose California to present at the Gestalt IT Net Tech Field Day. You can find some background on the event here, but in short it's a small conference where a dozen or so industry experts and bloggers get together to collaborate on what they're seeing in the industry and to…
Last week I had the opportunity to spend a couple of days in the hallway at SpiceWorld in the Austin Convention Center. Well, really I was in the SolarWinds booth, but the vendor booths were in the hallway, so there I was nonetheless. SpiceWorld is the annual conference of SpiceWorks, which, functionally speaking, is a…
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