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I really appreciate you sharing all of these great resources; thanks!

I would imagine that this report closely mirrors the private sector. If lacking skills is a challenge for companies looking to make this move there are MSP's such as Atmosera (the company that I work for) that specialize in this type of thing.

My recommendation would be to not use another BMC product. We are currently migrating off one of their products as well for similiar reasons. They really only seem to care about working with very large clients that user their flagship products designed to support large enterprises.

Currently we restrict users to see only their nodes based on CustomerID (a custom node property) though I suppose this could be done though Groups. In a perfect world I would like to control how much administrative access they have including the option to allow them to create and manage users within their…

Right-sizing is absolutely important in a virtualized environment; however, as others have suggested you certainly can't rely only on a system to tell you the proper steps to take to make this work. Like anything else, when right-sizing and managing for performance you need to use the information your monitoring systems…

I would first like to say that I think you make some excellent points here! We manage a considerable number of storage systems ranging from SATA shelves all the way to up to Flash systems. I think another bit that is important to add to this is that due to that underlying storage system architecture not all flash systems…

The secret to my "power leveling" as been always being willing to point out and do the stuff that nobody else is. Umm, that sounded better in my head but I am rolling with it anyway. Essentially, there are no sacred cows (or goats); be willing to call attention and tackles issues that others are not. Be willing to think…

thanks for the information. What is not clear to me is if there are plans to reconcile the overlap/differences between Network Atlas and NTM? It feels like the Network Atlas Connect Now was supposed to do what NTM now does. I understand having NTM as a standalone tool for folks that just need network mapping but don't have…

The poller then communicates back to our primary Orion system.

I honestly don't think automation is anything new, it's only recently become more of a buzz word as we move to the Software Defined <insert variable here> world. If you look at the history of IT, we have always worked to automate things with the technology we had at the time. The only thing that has changed is that we now…

Should I be concerned that this hasn't been updated since 2013?

I love leveraging online communities. Why try and re-invent the wheel when somebody else has likely already invented it for you. We are much stronger as a group than we are as individuals.

The lines between networking and storage can also get pretty blurry because networking for storage is a bit of it's own animal and his it's own set of special requirements, for example setting up jumbo frames or making sure you are using the storage vendors networking software. Not following best practices on these things…

Personally IoT security scares the crap out of me. While I am a professional geek, I am relatively low tech in my personal life and I would prefer to keep it that way until I have a reason to believe that IoT has a level of security that I can be comfortable with.

stephen.black​ I am in the same boat as you on this!

What if any options are there at this point for monitoring the critical aspects of a container and supporting components? I ask because I am still struggling to come up with a good monitoring option for SaaS based SQL in Azure.

As a service provider the level of security that is put into place is mostly based on what our clients request. We offer just about every level and option a person could want but budget almost always ultimately decides what level is implemented.

That's funny ecklerwr1​, I have the exact opposite problem; I need to master something (or at least convince myself that I have) before I am comfortable and can move on to something else.

I think I would have to agree with the list that Jfrazier has put together. Of the things in that list I really need to stress "Support". Any product is only as good as the support behind it.

awelch‌ is there a way to tell if you already filled that out or not? I am pretty sure I did unless it's a project by project thing where we need to sign up separately each time?

Is running workloads in the cloud really less secure or is it just a perception thing due to the loss of control over the infrastructure and often miss-configured security controls for cloud workloads? I have worked with cloud (specifically Azure) a fair bit now and from what I have seen all the same level of security (if…

I just saw that ScienceLogic can now do this (as seen HERE), it doens't seem unreasonable to expect some of this from SolarWinds. At the very least to have SolarWinds write some custom SAM App monitors to do this for us. Not having Azure monitoring in general is killing me and causing people at my company to question…

networkcanuck​ had some great resources in his Geek Speak post HERE.

I have actually had both of these problems. I have folks that don't like the truth the data is telling them so they go seeking an alternate truth. I also have people that are "open source or death" folks that refuse to use any commercial application so they go spend 10x as much time building and supporting their own tools;…

Well, that is exactly the functionality I want so add my vote to that! Thanks Jeremy!

It looks like you could wear that car sqlrockstar​!

This provides a great case for how important it is to educate your users... and of course to make sure they have updated Anti-Virus software on their systems.

That was a great trip down memory lane remembering where we came from versus where we are now in the industry. It's unfortunate that hacking now only has the negative associations with it. We should want to encourage certain types of hacking to help feed and nourish the inquisitive minds and channel that energy toward…

More and more this is becoming important to us. Thus far we have been committed to LEM as our SIEM solution; however, more and more I am getting asked (by management) for logs that LEM doesn't seem to handle. While I love having the vendor (SolarWinds) maintain so many connectors, I still think it's important to be able to…

Jfrazier​ while I agree with your point and have been on both ends of the receiving those credits and giving those credits, it's not the same as having somebody show up by your side during the Sev 1 issue working their hardest to get it resolved because they actually care and have a sense of ownership.