Just a fun thing my team likes to do on Wednesday's. Every Wednesday we sport our Solarwinds polo's and it has become quite the topic of discussion. We, like most of you on here love the missions and earning points for Solarwinds swag. thebash mark.mullens@safetynational.com willie.snell@safetynational.com jrtesson matt_wassall
Looks like a pretty cool environment and a great team building exercise. Not all of us are so fortunate as the dress code is more restrictive in my environment. Cheers!
Very nice - I'm trying so very hard to get the rest of my team to see SolarWinds as OURS and not just Richards.
Any suggestions on getting others to jump in a explore - I figure if they spend some time they will become as enamored with the products as I am.
I too would like to gain on that insight. I have been slowly working -- when I have time -- with our User Support Specialists to have them see the dashboard and use that as a reference. When something goes red, they would then know where to expect phone call volume increases and they know what the response should be and who is the responsible persons to work on the situation. Also, we are currently experiencing some issues with our Cisco 3850 stacks that have been deployed for over 2 years -- significantly sluggish performance at times and SW is reporting 98%+ processor utilization on the stacks. This information is helpful to our User Support so they can inform users of the situation and when the relative time frame for resolution.
I know that they are not as excited about monitoring as I am but I think they are turning the corner in regards to seeing the benefits.
If only this were possible here. My organization forbids displaying/wearing/using swag if there is any possibility of the public or other employees developing the impression of a vendor influencing our decisions by providing gifts. This includes services, events, clothing, mugs, toys, etc.
We're a health care organization, and big pharma and other product vendors had inundated our employees over the years with various freebies--anything from product-branded pens, mugs, clothing, binders, mouse pads--right on up to big ticket items (think cruises and trips).
Management determined that the public was getting the impression that internal purchasing decisions were being influenced by the constant barrage of advertising of seeing product brands and names on office materials, and by staff perhaps becoming beholden to vendors for bigger tickets items and favors. The organization created new policies about displaying swag and accepting experiences--these are no longer allowed. I think we're the better for it.
This was us circa 2013. Only one of these guys are left though.
For me, just seeing how powerful of a tool Solarwinds is and how it can make my job easier and more efficient is what sold me on their whole suite. That single pane of glass into the various pieces of the infrastructure has saved us so much time and so many headaches.
You've not lost them You've trained them up & then released them into the wild to spread the word.It's a lot like raising children
It's nice seeing these pictures of organizations who have so many staff that are familiar with SW products! Thanks for sharing them.
You are right:
3 Developers
1 Dev Ops
1 Intrusion Detection
and 1 runs the Unix Admins
....but other great members have been added, no?
Besides you Kevin or in addition to?
I did some work at a place years ago that had just implemented the same kind of policy. The IT staff was getting bombarded with "free" swag from all kinds of vendors and service providers. Things like pens all the way up to box tickets for Packer home games and free flights and other things like that. It was pretty insane really. Of course the people at the bottom never got any of the good stuff, that was reserved for the head honcho. When he left and a new Director of IT came in, he put the knife to it right away. The vendors and service providers hated it, but most of the IT staff approved of it.
To my knowledge we do not have anything like this in place where I am at now. But I also don't see nearly the influx of swag from vendors either. In fact I see very little now that I look around.
Besides me.
I wish we could be as relaxed as that here. Jealous.
The SolarWinds UX team (in Austin) strikes back!
Left to right, Name (role)
Standing: Shy Dhanani (designer), Joseph Breitreider (designer), Ashley Orr (researcher), Katie Cole (researcher), Tulsi Patel (manager/researcher), Susan Chopra (designer), George Reynolds (Director of UX)
Sitting: Kellie Mecham (researcher), Veronica Acevedo (manager/designer), Kristin Bongiovanni (researcher), Jennifer Jobst (designer)
Names & Titles, left to right, please? I rarely get to place a name with a Solarwinds face unless it's in a training video, and we've all seen Kong & Leon & friends many times. But some of these faces are new to me.
People standing, left to right: Shy D, Joseph B, Ashley O, Katie C, Tulsi P, Susan C, George R People sitting, left to right: Kellie M (me!), Veronica A, Kristin B and Jen J.
