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AS to the shortage of cyber security professionals, our company opened an office in Charlotte just to have a larger pool of applicants. At that we are still paying a premium. However, they have created a great program of locating internal candidates with technical ability and adaptability and have created an internal…

You can train them and risk them leaving or not train them and risk them staying.

Y2K revealed how technically illiterate the general public is. While there were issues to address, many profited off the hysteria and people's ignorance. WE sold PBX's at the time that were y2k compliant. We saw many of our competitors, sell y2k upgrades or new y2k compliant back planes and cards only to replce the…

We have a recycling vendor. When we remove outdated equipment, the vendor picks up the items. What they refurbish and sell we get a portion of, the rest the break down to component parts and recycle.

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Okay rhyming with "sensate" it a bit of a stretch...but I guess anything else would have been too obvious.

It took me a second to catch that. Funny

Our DBA's are very careful with adding load to the SQL servers. It is a precarious balance between insight and load.

Thank you, Solarwinds. I was blown away. 

Laws about communication in government are amusing at times. I was a City councilman for 8 years and during the rise of imessaging. One concern that has come up often is can councilors message each other at a meeting or is that a violation of the SunShine law and they should only be able to talk out loud to each other. We…

When do points get added. Each week or the end of the contest?

There's a shirt idea:

This is where, tools like Mobile Iron, and solid policy both written and network security save the day.

From a Dev Ops view, we have been able to use powershell and Release Management to automate a lot of our process in relation to binaries. From a SW view, adamlboyd​ has been able to do a lot with MS Orchestrator and SWOAP to automate true ups with our inventory system and even using orchestrator as trigger action.

Great Poitns Dez​ Our biggest problem is we are a large shop and so many of these responsibilities are silo'ed and and the silo's go all the way to the top before there is any crossover.

Looking Forward to Dragon v Kracken

I am just glad all the Hermione / Agent K nonsense has come to an end. My poor Pinky appears to be on his way to getting squashed.

A consultant came in a looked at our old CIO and said..."What's your money making app" Our old CIO told him. The consultant looked at him and said "How many users are currently using the app at this moment and what do you lose a minute while its down?" Our old CIO told him "I do not know" Our old CIO became our Old CIO.

Parents sue Apple, blame FaceTime for daughter's death As much as I would like for Apple to have installed this feature, I'm not sure I can hold them responsible for the actions of the driver in this case. If it wasn't FaceTime, let's say the driver was on the phone, could you sue Verizon for allowing the call, considering…

I also call foul on todays question based on hint and question.

Move to CA APM and TFS automated Build and Deployments as well a Jira.

Me: My internet is not working intermittently. I am having no issues on the intranet. Its on both Chrome and IE. And yes, I have rebooted my pc. Help Desk: Can I bomgar onto your computer? Me: Sure Help Desk: I am going to clear your IE cache and cookies. Me: Okay, but my problem is on both Chrome and IE Help Desk: Yes,…

A great tool for the accidental DBA or Accidental Developer is Stack overflow. We were having issues with Block, Locking and Deadlocks, and as an example, I found this resoucre on what are Locks, Deadlocks, and Blocks. voteaccepted Analogies Sometimes it helps to use analogies away from computers. Let's say you have a ball…

Useful InfoGraphic. Tools are allowing us to do better Fault Domain Isolation and moving away from "It's not working"

We have actually changed the thought process to Reliability, since availability by definition is binary. Reliability focuses the monitoring on degradation.

I used to work in security. One of the remote sales managers who thought he was more important than everyone else constantly called and complained about everything. We always assumed he was made because they would not let him use his personal laptop and he had to use one of the corporate ones (which to be fair was not as…

We went the private Cloud method. Like rschroeder​, we found the public cloud to bring inefficiencies and reliability concerns and for us that did not justify the savings.

That is hilarious and at the same time accurate.

nevermind, I must have been trying to submit as you were fixing it.

Wow, Just had my question 7 epiphany