Upgrading to SCOM 2012? If you are, now might be the time to think about why you have SCOM in the first place. For a lot of companies, SCOM is one of those things that came along as part of a package deal. You didn’t really choose it, but it was either very inexpensive or free, and it works ok. Sure, it’s a bit difficult…
This Sunday I'm leaving my home here in Austin TX and heading out to Las Vegas for Cisco Live!. Cisco Networkers (as us old-schoolers still lovingly refer to it) is without a doubt the best show in the world for network engineering, network administration, and network management. Anyone who works in these fields should be…
Join SolarWinds Sales Engineer Rob Johnson on July 25th at 1pm for an exclusive presentation for LEM Customers on LEM’s new Workstation Edition Features. There will be a live demo on expanding your compliance and log management to desktops. This live event will allow you to ask questions and get your answers right away!…
Well folks, looks like I need a little bit of your help. I'm up for a couple of speaking opportunities (a panel and a presentation) at VMWorld. I've made it past the first round of selections but the second round is based upon votes from the community and so I need your help. Please go and vote for each of the events here:…
Last week I got the chance to chat with Chris Pirillo (the Lockergnome) about some of our free tools. Check it out on YouTube. Flame on... Josh Follow me on Twitter
An article featured in the November issue of an online small business journal recently caught my attention. This summer, I posted here touting the importance of patching third-party software, and this article addresses a relevant scenario: "Protecting your company's online banking account from fraud." The article contains…
Today is the last day of that annual ritual celebration of all things technological we know simply as CES. Thanks to CES, we can all be supremely disappointed in the otherwise simply amazing capabilities of the gadgets we all got just last month. You may even be reading this post on a device that was a star of a past CES.…
With the latest release of VoIP & Network Quality Manager (VNQM), SolarWinds has taken VoIP monitoring to totally new level to provide more advanced performance metrics that helps simply VoIP troubleshooting and capacity planning. Let’s explore what’s new in this release of VNQM 4.1, and how you’ll benefit from all the new…
I've talked about what VM sprawl is, but what about all the terms that were mentioned in the previous post, like zombies, orphans, rogues, and spawning? Quick recap: VM sprawl - the proliferation of VMs in the virtual infrastructure that are unnecessary and are frequently unauthorized or unusedthus consuming resources that…
I'll be in Vegas for InterOP next week. Stop by our booth and chat if you have some time... Josh
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