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Thanks @asheppard970. Yes, I am very lucky to work in one of the best companies to work for in America and worldwide. Our culture includes a strong "believe in the individual" and among other goals our company aspires to improve lives through advanced materials. Leaders are defined by having people who follow them and…

We need VPLEX support, otherwise we can't rollout SRM globally. I hope this will be added soon.

Actually, I would rather like to see more granularity with the disk based licensing. In a product based licensing model those who are at the entry level of a product always get screwed, while those with a fully stacked array would get rewarded. It would also be very difficult to coordinate pricing for all the constantly…

Thanks! I'm looking forward to your post. I hope Capacity Planning will be migrated over soon. We just spent quite some time on creating capacity dashboards, which is pretty "clunky", the dashboard reports look dated, and the whole capacity planning part could benefit from the more modern Orion interface.

Leon Adato , thank you very much for this thoughtful post. I agree wholeheartedly that the ability and willingness to ask good and also inconvenient questions is key to learning and understanding. Too many people are afraid to ask questions, because they are afraid it might make them look bad. To me it's quite the…

Wouldn't it be a good thing to make decisions like that based on clearly established rules supporting the "greater good" or "least damage" principles? Your examples assume that a human makes better decisions in such millisecond situations. I believe reality shows that to a large percentage the opposite is true. Human…

DanielleH I don't really understand why my May 27 response was incorrect? It specifically asks what installing File Integrity Monitoring Software allows the user to do. The hint leads to a page that lists also "Use File Integrity Monitoring tool to detect and alert on changes to key files, folders, and registry settings."…

Long ago in a galaxy far far away... we used to have a Network Management System station in our IT operations office. When a system went down it would both send an SMS as well as sound a loud audible alarm (mp3) until the alert was acknowledged. For our most critical systems we used a sound byte from a nuclear power plant,…

Starting in 2018 I also started familiarizing myself with AWS, but mostly working on the reporting and billing/forecast side. 2017 was mostly focused around building out and harmonizing our global Solarwinds environments.

Yes, it kind of feels like the questions and answers are always designed by Marketing people and not by technical people who actually understand the subject. After getting it wrong a few times because of "over-thinking" I now try to follow the KISS approach and regurgitate what's in the hint.

I think it very much depends on the depreciation of whatever we're buying. Much like the "I buy my car vs. I lease my car". Both have advantages and disadvantages. If I buy a car/SAN/software/etc with outright upfront payment I truly own it, meaning I will be able to use it beyond the depreciation term. On the downside I…

Also would need AIX agent. Would also like to see monitoring to distinguish between LPAR and physical machine data and VIOs.

Our websites are mostly Business to Business, so fortunately did not see much impact of Cyber Monday etc.

Come on SolarWinds, 440 votes and counting. Please listen to your customers and add maintenance calendars.

The first time right out of school when I thought about getting into IT someone told me that it was mostly math, so I decided that's not for me. Fast forward a decade or so the PC was invented and actually kind of affordable, so I looked into it again and was immediately hooked. I bought a 80286 with a full MB of RAM…

Back in the 90s I had already worked with Novell NetWare etc for many years and then traded lots of unused vacation and overtime that would have expired otherwise against going to Novell classes and taking certification tests. That way I completed my CNE 4 pretty quickly, because I knew 80% and only filled Theoretical…

We try to extend use, then re-use and recycle as much as possible. Once systems can no longer be used in house, we work with a company who securely wipes our hard drives, tests the systems and then tries to either sell or donate as much as possible. Equipment that is no longer usable will be de-gaussed (discs), dismantled…

First of all, no company can say that they do not use open source software at all. I would bet that some form of Apache, Tomcat, Linux, etc is in use somewhere. There can be a hidden danger in not recognizing this. Second, selecting open source software to safe money is the wrong approach. Money will be spent either way.…

The VMAN 8.0 Release Notes state that "Many VMAN features are now available through the Orion Platform". "Many" does not mean "All". Is there a comparison chart available somewhere that will tell me what I loose if I follow the recommendation "For existing VMAN customers, you can use the Synchronization Wizard to migrate…

I guess I'm lucky in that my company recognizes that there are technical leaders and people leaders. Someone may have great followership because of their technical prowess, but they simply don't have the desire or skills to provide other aspects of people leadership. I can also attest that it can take quite a long time to…

Someone should definitely check the grammar on that question. The way it is written it asks if ARM can report on files that have been shared externally only. I believe they meant to ask if ARM can only report on files shared externally (not on those shared internally). Pity for all those who expect correct English…

When I was awarded "Master Certified Novell Engineer of the Year 2002" at the Novell Brainshare Conference in Salt Lake City, UT. I was nominated by my colleagues and elected by fellow Novell engineers from around the world. A very proud moment in my career.

Nice article, I very much enjoyed reading it. I would like to defend your dad a little bit here. Times were different and he probably had good reasons to react like he did. First of all he probably did not want to brag about being able to travel when most people did not have that opportunity. Back then one did not openly…

Today's (April 12) question was (again) phrased so badly that the only correct answer should have been what @ryhlen.schoeberl above hinted at. It is beyond me why this response was incorrect. The article clearly states that NIST and ISO are limited to IT and the question asked for a broad framework. COBIT should have been…

My kids are now grown up and out of the house, but my daughter just recently told me that she never knew what to say when asked at school what exactly her dad was doing for a living. On a high level I always told them that I was making sure that the data center was running, so everyone in the company could do their…

DELL EMC VRTX is supported in SRM now. You need to point to the EMC SMI-S provider for data collection. Work quite well.

I agree that in the past couple of decades we have moved from "providing world class customer service" to "supporting business outcomes". In between we heard things like "IT always provides platinum service, even when it's not really necessary" and "IT has to learn to say NO". And yes, the end user is the consumer, while…

A very important topic, especially for us IT guys who very often are more on the introvert side of the spectrum and are more comfortable interacting with computers than with humans. We feel safe with predictable reactions that can be decoded and are logical. But the way to personal (and professional) growth leads through…

Hi Serena, yes, would be interested to talk. Please let me know. Thanks Andreas

OK, so I played around a bit with the new Capacity Planning reports in Orion VIM. The calculations and trends are so horribly off that it's not even funny: * CPU usage trend only uses the last 3 weeks, even if you tell it to use 90 days of history. * Regardless of modeling setting it always predicts a steep increase in CPU…