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According to the SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2019: Skills for Public Sector Tech Pros of Tomorrow, 75% of all public sector tech pros surveyed expressed concerns about whether they have the necessary skills to successfully manage their IT environments over the next three to five years. How can federal IT pros accelerate…
("The Echo Chamber" is a semi-regular series where I reflect back on a talk, video, or essay I've published. More than just a re-hashing of the same topic, I'll add insights as to what has changed, or what I would say differently if I were doing it today.) Back in March 2018, I gave an online talk about monitoring,…
Do you know what's in your data center? How about your wide area network (WAN)? If you had to draw a map or produce a list of all the things that are connected to your systems in the next week, could you? It sounds like the simplest of things to have, but more often than not, most people have no idea what's really going on…
If you’re not prepared for the future of networking, you’re already behind. That may sound harsh, but it’s true. Given the speed at which technology evolves compared to the rate most of us typically evolve in terms of our skillsets, there’s no time to waste in preparing ourselves to manage and monitor the networks of…
Evolution is not just for science conversations; it is a critical aspect of effective IT management. As federal technology environments become more complex, the processes and practices used to monitor those environments must evolve to stay ahead of -- and mitigate -- potential risks and challenges. Network monitoring is…
Learn from the past, live in the present and prepare for the future. While this may sound like it belongs hanging on a high school guidance counselor’s wall, they are, nonetheless, words to live by, especially in federal IT. And they apply perhaps to no other infrastructure element better than the network. After all, the…
I have been tasked with the challenge of trying to identify the IP Address of every endpoint on each individual switchport across the enterprise. My initial idea is to run a sh ip arp command then a show mac address table command and correlate the two. Prior to starting that tedious process I wanted to check to see if…
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