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Happy SysAdmin Day 2021 - Let's Celebrate
This year, for SysAdmin Day, we’re trying to recreate that relaxing feeling with a little frivolity here on THWACK. [PLAY] SysAdmin Day Wordplay [READ] SysAdmin Day 2021: You Are Enough [LISTEN] TechPod: Celebrating SysAdmin Day 2021 [WATCH] SysAdmin Day 2021: A Fistful of Tickets [YouTube] [WATCH] SysAdmin Day 2021: Back…
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Calling All Super SysAdmins: When Have You Come to the Rescue?
They say love is a battlefield, but as any SysAdmin knows—so is the data center! With an endless supply of “evil villains,” like zombie VMs, data loss, performance bottlenecks, application downtime, service outages and more, that could be lurking in the dark corners of a data center, you SysAdmins are the first line of…
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Happy SysAdmin Day!
The response today is “Whoa-oh!” I’m walking on sunshine You all know how it goes: you do the tireless work for 364 days of the year, but today is your day and we’re celebrating it here on THWACK. If you’ve been living your best life on a sunny beach somewhere (or potentially avoiding the UV rays under a pile of tickets),…
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SysAdmins: Then, Now, Always — SolarWinds TechPod 066
When you started as a systems administrator, you might have connected servers, swapped out hard drives, run down spare components, and dragged around a crash cart. Those days might not be completely over, but the chances you physically interact with your systems grow smaller and smaller each day. In an era of…
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Celebrating SysAdmin Day 2021 — SolarWinds TechPod 046
While it may not be circled in red on many people’s calendars, SysAdmin Day holds a special place in the hearts of many IT professionals. Certainly, because everyone likes to be appreciated for what they do, but more so because SysAdmin day is a chance for tech practitioners not only to recognize and celebrate, but to also…
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THWACK MONTHLY MISSION - JULY 2017
SysAdmin Day is right around the corner and that means here at THWACK HQ, we’ve got system and application problems on the brain, not to mention all the tools you need to solve them. If only life in the systems admin world was contained to restarting servers, swapping hardware, and monitoring storage health—you know, the…
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SysAdmin Day Wordplay
Do you remember relaxing? I feel like at some point this past year and a half, I started relaxing by thinking about the way I used to relax. Can you relate? Sometimes I even think about what relaxing looks like in TV shows and movies to get inspiration. It’s rough all around. One persistent visualization is sitting in bed…
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Sysadmania! Is Upon Us!
SysAdmin Day is upon us, you SysAdmaniacs! It’s your day! We know how you may feel underappreciated at times throughout the year, so we went all out and created a board game in your honor. That’s right. Now, after another annoying day resetting passwords and resolving bottlenecks caused by I/O-heavy apps, you can unwind…
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SysAdmin Day 2020: Business as Usual During the "New Different"
I’m not going to even try to pretend SysAdmin Day arrives this year under conditions anyone would call “business as usual.” I’m going to avoid the cliched and empty platitudes of “the new normal,” “unprecedented times,” and “focusing on what matters.” I’m also going to avoid needlessly reminding you how much your company,…
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SysAdmin Day 2021: You Are Enough
A year ago, in July of 2020, I started my SysAdmin Day post with the words, “I’m not going to even try to pretend SysAdmin Day arrives this year under conditions anyone would call ‘business as usual.’” Here we are, 12 months later, and a lot has changed, but life (and tech) continue to be extraordinarily not-normal. The…