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Sorry for the long post, I didn't have time to write a short one. For the last 15+ years now, I've been using SolarWinds products in my daily work life. Over the years, I have poked and prodded, broken and fixed (and broken again), and been able to figure out (even on the most simplistic of levels) how little pieces of the…
There is something to be said about ignorance being bliss, and then there are times when it is good to know a little bit more about what you are getting into. My IT journey started over 20 years ago. All I knew going in was that I liked IT based upon my studies and that the university I attended had 100 % placement in IT…
When the IT Roadshow Comes to Town In the past I’ve compared the logistics of tech conferences, tradeshows, and user groups to moon landings, touring companies, and polar expedition planning. Common to all of these is the anticipation of the journey, of meeting new people, and seeing the world in the service of sharing…
The only constant truth in our industry is that technology is always changing. At times, it’s difficult to keep up with everything new that is being introduced while you stay active in working your day to day duties. That challenge grows even harder if these new innovations diverge from the direction that the company you…
Having grown since college in my career, I have learned many lessons. I started out in computers back in 1986, at the precipice of the “clone” era. I cut my teeth and my hands by installing chips on memory cards and motherboards, replacing 5.25” floppy discs, and dealing with the jumble of cables on Dual 5MB Winchester…
In network engineering, and really in all of the information technology world, a plurality of people didn’t learn their craft in the traditional manner. In most professions, we go to school, select a degree, then start at the bottom in the career we have chosen. While that is increasingly becoming the case in IT as well,…
I was on a call today and got some great insight from one of our customers! He told me how he was a great fan of thwack and he visited it often. We talked about the things he looked for when he came to thwack and he offered some suggestions. He said that it would be great to have more How-To videos, e.g. for Netflow…
Join us August 21st at 11:00am CST to get the details on SAM’s next release. It’s jam-packed full of features: * Deep SQL monitoring * IT asset inventory dashboard * Statistical thresholds generated from baseline data * Real-Time Windows Event Log Viewer * And a lot more! The SAM 6.0 release candidate is now available for…
Does anyone know of any company that offers training on Solarwinds Products? I am interested in training on NPM, Solarwinds Administration etc...
The topics vary - but it's always good and interactive. We'll have this topic for the next three weeks. We keep attendance small, so the sessions encourage attendees to ask questions about their own environments and initiatives. We hope you can join us! Getting the Most from Your Virtual Infrastructure: How to Optimize…
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