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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…
Do you want your applications to perform at their best 24 x 7? Would you like to boost your organization’s productivity? Of course, everyone wants this, and here’s how: continuous monitoring of the application stack. Application stack?!! What’s that? Keep reading this article and I’ll walk you through the application…
Sitting back at the office getting work done, keeping the ship afloat, living the Ops life of the perception of DevOps, only to have your IT Director, VP or CxO come and demand, “Why aren’t we using Containers! It’s all the rage at FillInTheBlankCon!” And they start spouting off the Container of the week, Kubernetes,…
THWACKcamp – the annual virtual learning event brought to you by SolarWinds – was amazing this year, in large part because so many live attendees were talking about new challenges IT admins they hadn’t imagined even five years ago. As usual, in our closing thoughts we mentioned that rate of change doesn’t seem to worry the…
What do you do when your employer says no more training? What do you do when you know that your organization should move to the cloud or at least some discrete components? How do you stay current and not stagnate? Can you do this within the organization, or must you go outside to gain the skills you seek? This is a huge…
How should somebody new to coding get started learning a language and maybe even automating something? Where should they begin? It's probably obvious that there are a huge number of factors that go into choosing a particular language to learn. I'll look at that particular issue in the next post, but before worrying about…
To paraphrase a lyric from Hamilton, Deciding to code is easy; choosing a language is harder. There are many programming languages that are good candidates for any would-be programmer, but selecting the one that will be most beneficial to each individual need is a very challenging decision. In this post, I will attempt to…
First off, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Damon, and I am the Managing Editor of Geek Speak. I’m not sure why it has taken me so long to post a blog. But that said, I’d like to thank you all for your continued support of thwack, Geek Speak, and for our amazing contributors. While I’m not exactly versed in IT, I…
Hello Geek Speakers, As 2015 comes to an end and 2016 begins, SolarWinds once again tapped its band of experts - the Head Geeks - to take a look inside their crystal balls and provide a glimpse into IT trends to watch for in the coming year. Will their predictions come to fruition in 2016? Let us know what you think and…
This is a common scenario in most organizations: end-users complaining of slow email performance. Sometimes all users experience it, or just a few people (maybe in a specific location, or just randomly). It could also be a home user connecting via VPN complaining that email Web access is slow. IT teams face different types…
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