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RCA's are an important part of life in the tech world and unfortunately they are not done often enough with leads to recurrence of the same issues.

As far as Pure is concerned, we use their products and they have been a great company to work with. I like how they have stepped up to the plate and not been afraid to challenge the more traditional way of thinking when it came to storage. I certainly look forward to seeing them grow and I certainly hope they continue to…

Wow, just wow! This is amazing work and I can't wait to see it in action!

mavturner; I am using Orion in a multi-tenant environment and it allows clients to easily get to objects that I don't want them accessing.

I always love reading the Gartner Magic Quadrants. I am always curious how it's decided what products make it on to the MQ as there are often products missing that I would expect to appear there. I also see that it says one of the "cautions" for SolarWinds is the ability to handle large environments when then makes me…

* Get our InfoSec team up and running* This includes a security platform built from solid security tools * Find a good alert aggregation system to help with our alert/event management * Overhaul and streamline our Orion platform* The system has grown organically for several years and is in need of some TLC

It seems we have hit an age old divide between convenience and security and you generally don't get both as they are on the opposite ends of a spectrum. With that being said, if you were to use some type of authentication combined with DHCP you might have the beginnings of a solution. 

I agree, this is needed. When I opened the feature request HERE that was one of the things I was hoping to be able to accomplish. As I have pointed out before; when somebody asks me if I can support a specific log file/source the answer can't ever be "NO"; however, it can be "yes, but...".

While it's certainly an Ad for NPM 12 and NetPath, it's certainly worth of an Ad as it's technology in an NMS unlike anything I have seen before. I am really excited to see that SolarWinds is back to innovating as it feels like it had been a while since I had seen them produce any new tech that I had been excited about.

I have personally come to hate the term DevOps because it's so often mis-used that or it just isn't well defined, I am not sure which. In my personal experience people seem to use it as more of a buzz word versus something with any actual meaning. I have talked to several friends that also work in this industry and they…

ecklerwr1​ we host environments for several clients that have BC/DR plans and part of our agreement with them is to actually test them on a regular basis. What I have seen from these tests is that they rarely go smoothly which speaks to and extends the point you make. Often they are not tested but even when they are it's…

During times of rapid increase in technology, it is better to be a generalist than a specialist. That was very well stated. Our company is always evolving quickly, I have been here for 16 years and watched us evolve from an ISP, to a classic MSP and now to a Hybrid Cloud Solutions Provider. Over this time I have watched…

I guess this is good news for people that are becoming security experts, plenty of opportunity. While I deal with InfoSec stuff on a daily basis and have been trying to work myself into the security field and to becoming an expert, I have found it a very challenging thing to move into. I would love to hear from others how…

I like to think of us (geeks) as wizards of the technical age, but then again I may have played a bit too much D&D back in the day. 

Always build in an "oh $h!t" button to recover from the blast if/when it happens.

The skill set thing is an interesting balance. You need to have different people specialized in your different areas (windows, linux, network, storage, etc.) because having everybody specialize in everything just isn't possible; there isn't enough time in a day to keep your skills up on each of those things enough to be…

The article about the Amazon Echo makes me think of an Amazon Echo as the SIEM of home security, you can look back and see what happened at a given time and date. Maybe a new use case for it?

Oh, and I would love for Orion to have the manually executable corrective action option in addition to the automatic one. 

Some great links here, thanks for sharing!

Wow, that 1st announcement you noted is pretty limited. I think they should be concerned about the capabilities Microsoft is going to have with Azure Stack.

With everything in IT connected at such a fundamental level so as to be inseparable on any practical level, the era of point solutions really should be relegated to the IT trash bin, an anachronistic relic of our past. While I totally agree with this statement I work with people that feel exactly the opposite; they feel…

I would love to see some studies that show the difference in both tool cost and MTTR for places that use multiple tools versus places that use one consolidated tool-set like Orion. I would love to see this charted on a graph to see how the cost and MTTR change as the number of tools used increases.

I really love that you point out that "Data protection must begin at requirements time" and "Data protection cannot be an after-production add-on" because all too often I think this is where things fail. I have watched way too many environments be built without security in mind only to try and bolt it on after the fact and…

Yup, cnorborg​ that has been my experience with Fortinet as well. It seems to me the have been intentionally designed to not play well with others so they can try and push you to use only their ecosystem of products.

Training and a continuous improvement process are critical here as well.

Holy crap that AI thing is scary, I have watched enough Black Mirror to know that isn't going to end well. It's the ultimate deniability! They are going to need to new AI to be able to tell the difference when voices and videos are being spoofed by the other AI. AI VS. AI

I love the way your story starts out, it reminds me of how I was when I first started working with a SIEM. I had these lofty ideas of how things were going to be and the next thing I knew I was drinking from a fire hose of data and couldn't tell up from down because I was drowning in data. I have now been working with SIEM…

Our infrastructures require the same if not more resources to maintain following virtualization. Virtualization has not only made the infrastructures more complicated but they have also allowed for the number of virtual systems to grow significantly and somebody needs to manage and maintain those, even though they are…

My suggestion would be to add a custom node property called something like "Cust Email" and put in the email address for the customer associated with that node. Then in your advanced alert email address field add the variable for the custom node property that you created. By doing this it will automatically send the alert…

It's funny how even in IT organizations Security still continues to be one of the understaffed and underfunded disciplines, it's still seen as overhead and something that can be spread out over the already existing technical disciplines versus being it's own technical discipline.