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The Technology Companies Think They Can Live Without (and Why They’re Wrong)
When the value is obvious, most companies are willing to invest in tools to help employees get their job done better. But over the course of my career, I’ve noticed a few blind spots companies can’t seem to remember when writing out their tech team grocery list. These include things obvious to many, like training,…
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THWACKcamp Day Two Wrap-Up
It’s hard to believe another THWACKcamp is now behind us. As I mentioned yesterday, for many of us it will take days—if not longer—to fully process what we’ve heard in these sessions and shared in chat. Not only is that OK, it’s emblematic of our work as IT practitioners. The very best information—whether it’s something we…
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What Is VMware NSX?
When purchasing Nicira in 2012, VMware wanted to further establish itself as a leader in software-defined networking, and more importantly, in cloud computing. VMware NSX provides the flexibility network administrators have long desired without having to rely solely on network hardware and its primary roles include…
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Geekly World News: October 2020
I can’t believe it’s already spooky month. This year, Halloween will be a bit different than we’re used to. Whether you plan to have a socially distanced costumed get-together, brave some sort of trick-or-treating, or simply stay home and watch spooky movies, I hope you have a great time with it. What might you have missed…
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Government Hyperconverged Infrastructures Require Continuous Monitoring
Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Mav Turner with ideas about how the government could monitor and automate their hyperconverged infrastructure to help achieve their modernization objectives. It’s no surprise hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)…
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Unveil SharePoint’s Audit Logs
Don’t let SharePoint be your compliance weak point. SharePoint’s exponential growth has caught the eye of regulators who are alarmed with the all the uncontrolled sensitive information being shared. The need to protect that information through auditing, alerting, and reporting grows. Failure to protect your data can result…
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Make your Data Center sing with Converged Architectures
What does this CI concept mean? A converged architecture is, to put it simply, a purpose built system, with the inclusion of Server, Storage, and Network, designed to ease the build of a centralized environment for the data center. By this I mean, there’re servers and storage combined with networking, so that with very…
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Head Geek's Top 5 Things to Focus on While Working thru the Holidays
Here it is, December once again and we find ourselves in the office working as usual. Not an uncommon occurrence if you're a network administrator, network engineer, system administrator, consultant, DBA, Storage Administrator, VMWare Administrator, Web Developer, Systems Engineer, Applications Developer - well, basically…
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Understanding SNMP Polling and Counters
Two of the things that I get asked about a lot are a) how often you should poll your devices and b) how SNMP counters work. Let's address the question about polling frequency first. There are two primary types of polling - polling for status (up/down/warning) and polling for statistics (latency, traffic, errors, CPU,…
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IIS Web Server Monitoring: Best Practices
If you’re running a Windows environment, chances are you’re using Microsoft IIS as your Web server to run your Web applications. Your IIS Web server is a critical component of your IT infrastructure. Services such as SharePoint, Outlook, and your Web presence are dependent on its availability. If it’s going to take a long…