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3 Ways AI Is Changing Social Media
Social media has become a mainstream part of our lives. Day in and day out, most of us are using social media to do micro-blogging, interact with family, share photos, capture moments, and have fun. Over the years, social media has changed how we interact with others, how we use our language, and how we see the world.…
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How a Million-Dollar Prize Problem Popped up in Orion Configuration Wizard
Almost 10 years ago, we implemented a packaging framework in the Orion®Platform improving processes around installing, upgrading, and removing product components. The packaging framework proved its value and quickly became popular and used by SolarWinds® engineers. With the packaging framework, we introduced flexible rules…
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Three Things Utility Companies Need to Do to Prevent the Next Cyberattack
Utility companies are the latest targets of sophisticated cyberattacks. To reduce risk and enhance preparedness, consider the tips Brandon Shopp offers below. For the better part of the past decade, utility companies have been more concerned with the potential for outages than cyberattacks, but this has changed over the…
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Avoiding Supply Chain Attacks With MSBuild SDKs
SolarWinds is a large organization with software written in many programming languages, but the core language for our flagship Orion® Platform is C#, which runs on the Microsoft .NET Framework. The .NET Framework uses NuGet as a package manager. After the SUNBURST security incident in late 2020, we’ve focused extra…
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Multipath World
Picture a network—any enterprise network. What do you see? In almost every case, in almost every environment, you’ll find hubs and spokes of hubs and spokes all the way down. For network engineers, their focus may be even more narrow: innumerable clients, lots of switches, and fewer routers connected to a core. This…
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To Cloud or Not to Cloud?
There’s a question I’m sure is keeping some IT managers and CTOs up at night. How do you know when it’s right to move a workload to the cloud? And when you finally make the decision to migrate, how do you choose the best location for your application? As mentioned in my previous post, cloud is a buzzword that carries with…
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How Does AI Benefit the Tech World?
For some, artificial intelligence (AI) can be a scary technology. There are so many articles on the web about how AI will end up replacing X% of IT jobs by Y year. There’s no reason to be afraid of AI or machine learning. If anything, most IT jobs will benefit from AI/machine learning. The tech world is always changing,…
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How do I start a Geek Speak blog?
I am interested in writing some Geek Speak blog posts, but how do I get the posts to Geek Speak? Do I have to get approved for that? I just want to share some ideas!
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The Troubleshooting Radius
Most of the time, IT pros gain troubleshooting experience via operational pains. In other words, something bad happens and we, as IT professionals, have to clean it up. Therefore, it is important for you to have a troubleshooting protocol in place that is specific to dependent services, applications, and a given…
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The Once Dreaded AD Schema Updates Are Not So Dreaded Anymore
Updating your Active Directory Schema is something that needs to be done from time to time whether we like it or not. It is done to either support a new version of the OS Domain controller or because an AD integrated application such as Exchange, Skype for Business or SCCM requires the update. Regardless of the reasons the…