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What is WinRM & How Do You Configure It?
IT pros now have the added responsibilities of having to know how to troubleshoot performance issues in apps and servers that are hosted remotely, in addition to monitoring and managing servers and apps that are hosted locally. This is where tools like Windows Remote Management (WinRM) come handy because it allows you to…
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Skills for IT Operations Management
The technology industry is changing at a rapid pace, but let me put that into perspective. It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million users, it took Television 13yrs, the Internet 4 years, Facebook 1,096 days, and Google+ only 88 days. So what's this rapid change in how business is done mean for us in the IT industry? It…
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Better Together - Working Together in Silo Organizations
In my last post WHEN BEING AN EXPERT ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH: MASTER OF ALL TRADES, JACK OF NONE, you all shared some great insight on how you were able to be find ways to be successful as individual SMEs and contributors, and how you could navigate the landscape of an organization. This week, I’d like to talk about silo…
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Passing the Blame Like a Boss
One of the common challenges in troubleshooting performance issues is that the multiple dimensions belong to different teams. Co-ordinating the troubleshooting across the teams can bring its own challenges. I really like the feature of PerfStack where the dashboard URL contains all of the information required to recreate…
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THE Virtual Chick Chimes in on SolarWinds AppStack
Perusing through my virtualization blog feeds, a post from Amy Manley (@wyrdgirl) on her blog site, Virtual Chick, entitled "Solarwinds AppStack with SRM Flavor and More!" caught my attention. Amy is a fellow VMware vExpert and a certified virtualization unicorn. She was also a delegate at Virtualization Field Day 4, so…
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One Tool to Hone & Own Your Virtualization Admin Skills
I’m a huge fan of AWS. Not that AWS (Amazon Web Services), even though I do like that AWS and it exemplifies this AWS. This AWS is all about agility, web-scale, and simplicity. These are core tenets of IT transformation, also known as the Consumerization of IT. To keep up with this AWS and that AWS, IT admins need to…
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Another Look Back
Many of us are getting back to work after a few weeks of relative quiet (or for those of us with large families, at least a week of quiet from work-related issues). And as we're catching up on emails and updating our TODO lists, a look back may help us plan how best to move forward. Last week, Head Geek Lawrence Garvin…
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SME Weighs in on SolarWinds AppStack: Why It's Useful
As I was catching up on the latest IT industry news, I landed on Amit’s Technology Blog. Amit (@amitpanchal76) was a delegate at this year’s Virtualization Field Day 4. I found it very cool that Amit was highlighting his visit to SolarWinds and providing his view on AppStack in his blog post, “How SolarWinds Aims to Offer…
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A Look at Systems' Role in the AppStack
As Joel Dolisy described in A Lap around Appstack, the first installment of the AppStack series, there are many components in the application stack including networking, storage, and computing resources. The computing resources include hypervisors, virtual machines, and physical machines that provide applications,…
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The IT Management Unicorn: Engineers Unplugged with Cisco Live on the Mind
At VMware Partner Exchange 2015 in the Cisco booth with Lauren Friedman (@lauren) and Mike Columbus (@mec829) for an Engineers Unplugged session. Engineers Unplugged is a Cisco production and has had many wonderful engineers enlighten and delight the audience with technical knowledge with a unicorn flair. At the VMware PEX…