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Headed to Cybit!
Greetings All! I'm in the Big Apple, New York City, this week ... doing a presentation Wednesday morning at the Cybit Expo. Cybit is a "computer forensics" show, which focuses on Cyber Security and IT Security. My presentation is titled "Sharing Without Sacrifice: Managing Systems and Mitigating Risk in Today's Virtual…
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The Geeks are Back in Town
As you all know, part of what we value here at SolarWinds is the connection with IT users – all of you – who have a job to do every day and use our products to get that job done. Now normally we don’t announce new roles publicly but since these individuals will be very visible on thwack and other forums, I wanted to take…
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SysAdmin Day 2019: The Secret to Getting Ahead
Looking back across the months since SysAdmin Day 2018, it’s obvious we’re all dealing with a remarkably different (in some ways exciting, in others, horrifying) IT landscape than the one we had a year ago. Sure, all the familiar landmarks are there: routers still route, switches still switch, and servers still serve (even…
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Hands-On With SolarWinds Sandwich Monitor 1.0
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DEL-ASGOh3Y?rel=0 Finally out of Beta, today we’re releasing our newest Inventory Management product, SolarWinds Sandwich Monitor. This addition to the SolarWinds product line will allow you to monitor and manage IT Consumables Inventory across your enterprise. Administrators finally get…
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Orion MVP Maintenance Procedures
Hey THWACK! A few of the MVPs and myself have collaborated on our tips and tricks for what "we" do on our environments to keep them running smooth and we are really excited to share them with you in the hopes they might help you in your quest for Monitoring Glory. This is of course not all encompassing so if you've got…
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Alexa programming example from SolarWinds Lab Episode #51
I had a bunch of questions from today's SolarWidns Lab episode, "BREAKING UP WITH BAD HABITS: Monitoring, Security, and Orion -- DON'TS". I wrapped up with a 10 minute SolarWinds SDK programming class, integrating the Orion Platform with an Amazon Alexa custom skill. It's Nodejs, AWS Lambda, Alexa and of course SolarWinds…
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On the road again: Microsoft Convergence Barcelona
2015 is the year of the road trip for me. On the downside I know the insides of DFW, ORD, SFO, LHR, LGA and PHX airports way more than I’d like to. But on the plus side is the reason I still like getting out on the road after many years in technology: getting to speak with other die-hard IT professionals. I’m headed to…
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What does it mean to be a “Head Geek”?
I talk (“brag”) a lot about being a SolarWinds Head Geek. Everyone on the Head Geek team (Patrick Hubbard, Thomas LaRock, Kong Yang, Don Jacob, and Praveen Manohar) often gushes about how we feel this is the best job in the world. But what does being a Head Geek really mean? Is it all tweets about bacon, sci-fi references…
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Lawrence Garvin- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
There’s no way to write a good opening sentence for this post. Yesterday we lost Head Geek Lawrence Garvin, who passed away of natural causes at home. He’ll be missed by more than all the admins he interacted with on thwack, the huge TechNet community he touched in a decade as a devoted Microsoft MVP, the Houston Rodeo and…
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Live! Office Hours in March.. and a Question
If you haven’t heard already, SolarWinds’ Head Geeks are available for daily live chat, Monday-Thursday for the month of March at 1:00PM CT. kong.yang, adatole, sqlrockstar and yes me too, will be online to help answer any questions you may have about products, best practices, or general IT. Though unlikely, some chump…