The Monday general session at VMWorld 2012 covered a lot of ground but didn’t really provide any major new technology announcements. It started off with some of the traditional background statistics showing VMware’s and virtualization’s growth from 2008 to 2012 including an increase in virtualized workloads from 25% to 60%…
WSUS Inventory collects server information and status information from the WSUS server and populates that data into the Patch Manager database. This data is collected via the WSUS API. An inventory task must be executed in order to use reporting. Create the WSUS Inventory Task There are several methodologies that can be…
As you all know, part of what we value here at SolarWinds is the connection with IT users – all of you – who have a job to do every day and use our products to get that job done. Now normally we don’t announce new roles publicly but since these individuals will be very visible on thwack and other forums, I wanted to take…
If you’ve deployed VoIP at any level then it is quite likely that you have received complaints about poor call quality. How exactly does one measure VoIP call quality and how does one go about troubleshooting the cause of the poor quality? VoIP Metrics Maintaining high quality VoIP calls can be difficult as VoIP is more…
So, did you get your bracket done this year? Yeah, I have to admit, I was surprised Wintermute lost to HAL in the first round, too. Oh, right, you didn't think I was talking about the SolarWinds Sci-Fi Bracket Battle. Let's talk about that other bracket, the one for the NCAA Men's Division I basketball tournament because,…
Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Mav Turner with ideas for improving the management of school networks by analyzing performance and leveraging alerts and capacity planning. Forty-eight percent of students currently use a computer in school, while…
What is Route Flapping? Route flapping can be termed as the stream of fluctuating routing updates received by the routers on your network as they are routing traffic based on pre-defined routing policies. A route flap occurs when a router alternately advertises a destination network via one route then another, or when…
Tonight in Pandemic Viewing Escaping into all available streaming services is, if not a universal response to the current state of affairs, definitely a widespread one. According to Hub Research, 28% of consumers added a streaming service since February, and Disney+ hit its five-year subscriber goal already this year.…
There came a time when a decree went out from Caesar Augustus parents to their children to return to their own city to be registered fix all the IT problems. We’re right in the middle of Christmas festivities, and any other year most of us would be enjoying our free time and the company of loved ones. Having great food,…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This year’s theme is “accentuate the positive”– this post may or may not adhere to that theme. It’s tempting to shove all ambient turmoil into the strange 365-day-period we just experienced. Tempting to think the new year might just make everything a bit better by sheer virtue of the new number at the end of…
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