jwilson2013

Storage is cheap enough now that the how much question is almost irrelevant. Access speed or even access at all is the real focus, especially with all the cloud solutions available. With a cloud solution, there are a lot more links in the chain that have a possiblility of breaking the connection or dragging the access…

Browsed over this one this morning....looked like the start of a rough day.

I watched an interesting TED talk recently. Firefox has an add-on that tracks the tracker (Collusion/Lightbeam). It gives insight to how far the tracking goes, and it's not just you, it's your kids as well when they are on their devices. Lightbeam for Firefox — Mozilla

So how would the poller work on this new product? is it agentless?

I believe there is another component. We're also talking about pro-active versus re-active. If you only have one or two admins carrying the weight of a midsized network, they can get stuck in reactive mode because there is not a chance to catch up to the miriad of issues. They have to have the time to set up the automation…

I'll be following this thread pretty closely. We are about to start opening our external site to statement and invoice browsing so it's going to start getting a lot more use than it had in the past. I do like the idea of monitoring from both sides. Monitoring just the internal could be deceptive since you're using…

This discussion got me thinking about interfaces. Ten years ago Windows Servers were being converted from NT to 2000. We were hunting down drivers over slow internet (gig internet to the house these days). Now, 2008 is being converted to 2012. Who would have guessed that a sysadmin would have to deal with a Metro…

Looks like the questions and answers for 19 and 20 got swapped. (things that make you go Hmmmm....) DanielleH Question 20 has Administration Console answers.

How do you fit the cookies through the dark helmet and breathing apparatus?

Give her a little time. She has to roll out the challenge for the new month AND post points. It usually takes a week or two for everyone to get their points cuaght up.

Remote support has been greatly reduced at our company through the use of locked down thin clients. Great for managing the infrastructure, not so great for the end user. We're starting to see pushback and so some of the end users are getting PCs. Honestly, malware is the greatest time sink in a full PC environment. We have…

Ditto on the haphazard. The server team has a full plate and we are the ones who would have to set it up. We have no full time DBA.

I read the article and there are issues of magnitude regarding those (correct answers). I deduced the correct answer from that.

Maybe Mortal Kombat "Finishes Off" the "Finish Him" bracket with a decisive victory in the 64 bit round.

Here's the stuff we're getting rid of....

Got a grin out of that one. Loved the reference....it's a war out there.

We missed 5 9s this year in part because our service provider sent out a router update that put 16 sites into ROMMON and then couldn't get techs to those locations. Keeping it simple is great in theory but there was no failover plan for something like that and we paid the price. As previously stated, price is often the…

Our most recent horror story involved the managed network service to our (17) remote locations. I had come in to work in the morning and ALL of the routers at our remote locations and the router a corporate were in ROMMON. We contacted provider support and they said it was something WE had done. I reminded them that we did…

The CFO likes the idea of ownership. He sees cloud as rental. We will host the DB and most of our servers for the foreseeable future. P.S. Control fits into the picture as well.

* 1. SQL * 2. What's a SQL team? (infrastructure/SA) * 3. Visual Studio mostly, the SQL databases aren't high usage or high maintenance * 4. Proactivity? Hmmmm....

I just about burst a seam when I read that!

Good point about the WAN links. I believe that was part of the issue I was talking about above. I think it was partially a saturation issue when you got more than a few people working and phoning from that site.

That's what search is for, right?

Hard to prepare for the things you don't know that you don't know.

As an added point to Christopher Good. You have to have the whole IT department on the same page as well. One person not following procedure blows just about everything out of the water. The IT misconfiguration mistakes can often have a much bigger impact than a general user compromise.

Who would do that?

Scotch tape?

Inconceivable!

I would have to agree with ">matt.matheus regarding the type of company that you work for going a long way toward swaying the storage decision. We would be considered SMB and cost is a driving factor, with solid support playing a part in the decision as well. Nimble has crossed the radar and we are leaning that direction…

I entirely understand the gears engaging and realizing how it could work well. I also entirely get/agree that boneheads would use it for their own nefarious purposes