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As hybrid environments become more popular, federal IT teams are faced with managing and securing their on-premises and cloud infrastructures, while minimizing costs—and there’s no single tool or approach that can solve all these problems. With this in mind, let’s look at three ways federal agencies can address these…
This edition of the Actuator comes to you from my kitchen, where I'm enjoying some time at home before I hit the road. I'll be at RSA next week, then Darmstadt, Germany the following week. And then I head to Seattle for the Microsoft MVP Summit. This is all my way of saying future editions of the Actuator may be delayed.…
I've been responsible for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Preparedness for my company for nearly eight years. In my role as Certified Business Continuity Professional, I have conducted well over a dozen DR exercises in various scopes and scale. Years ago, I inherited a complete debacle. Like almost all other…
How many of you are running a QA Environment? We are currently evaluating replacing our aged hardware in our QA environment vs leveraging production hardware with an SDN implementation for segmentation. The general idea is to test applications in a similar hardware/network infrastructure as the production environment. We…
Welcome to another edition of The Actuator! This week we are talking about drones, data centers, and why no one cares about your emails. As always, here are some links from the Intertubz that I hope will hold your interest. Enjoy! Why Microsoft Wants to Put Data Centers at the Bottom of the Ocean No word yet on how to do…
Disaster recovery can be a complicated beast to tame. If you’re attempting to recover your IT infrastructure from some kind of disaster, you’re already faced with a number of challenges. First, there’s been an event that’s serious enough to warrant disaster recovery. Whether it’s flood, a plague of locusts, or someone…
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) has been a key part of managing network devices in the data centre for some time. It really is a pretty simple protocol to work with (hence the name), and I think it’s underrated as a key tool for monitoring unusual events. Unfortunately, SNMP has had some issues over time. One…
By Paul Parker, SolarWinds Federal & National Government Chief Technologist Here is an interesting article from my colleague, Joe Kim, in which he points out some of the challenges of managing wireless sensor networks. For several years, government network administrators have tried to turn knowledge into action to keep…
Striking a balance between good visibility into infrastructure events and too much noise is difficult. I’ve worked in plenty of enterprise environments where multiple tools are deployed (often covering the same infrastructure elements) to monitor for critical infrastructure events. They are frequently deployed with minimal…
Can i create an Object in Orion NPM (such as a Data Center). This object will not be polled, but can be used to capture info (site address, contact, etc .etc). This could also be used as a 'container' - linked to a Custom Attribute.? Also be good to use for Grouping.? any ideas? Many thanks Lee
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