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We've had outside analysts come in as white hats and do review of our network and tools. They've all recommended against open source tools due to reliability and support concerns. It seems their goal is to ensure that any tools we use come with fast and reliable support. It costs money, but so does having unreliable tools…

This would be worth it to the Thwack community to expand with more details and examples. You're going down a very useful path here.

It's not Luddite to say "no" to unnecessary network connectivity. I have no need for an Internet-aware thermostat or refrigerator at home. "No" can be a valid response, both at the consumer level AND at the corporate level.

Today we are buying storage 1.5 Petabytes at a time, a couple of times each year. It's part of being in Health Care, having to store everyone's medical and financial records for their entire life, plus twenty years. Ensuring access to those records one hundred years from now means continually migrating from technology to…

As usual, I enjoyed another educational Thwack Mission. Thanks for building it, thanks for the points!

I'm not certain it's ever in the company's best interest to "fire the customer." Yes, I've seen cases of customers abusing the company. But there are social solutions to pursue, and if they fail, then there are legal remedies that might be applied. But "firing a customer"? It leaves little room for recourse, and we want to…

Matthew Broderick did a fun movie with Ally Sheedy.

Truly, Solarwinds not being able to manage/monitor ISE is not a Solarwinds limitation; it's that Cisco wrote ISE to be quite different than a switch, router, or ASA firewall. There are no flat files to download/compare/adjust (as far as I know). That this request has been made is an indication of how much we appreciate…

Moving from a history of experience with stand alone servers to VM leaves admins and operators with an inaccurate expectation of hardware provisioning and performance. Where once we thought "Put in as much RAM as possible, get the fastest multi-core / multi-thread processors you can, and you've done the best you can to…

I also recommended adding in (and training for) DPA, NPM, LEM, SAM, WPM, Virtualization Manager, etc. These are (IMHO) the best tools for the job, particularly in regards to being able to present both the big picture and the granular picture, all from one application.

This method of creating crispy bacon sounds great to me! AND, it also has a solution for the leftover bacon fat, if you're not into tossing it out or freezing it and giving it to your yard birds in the winter. https://www.chowhound.com/food-news/230557/how-to-cook-the-best-bacon-crispy-easiest-way/

​Amazon Playing "Catch-Up" to Microsoft?​ Sometimes it's OK to let others blaze the path and take many of the risks. IF you can learn from their mistakes. Other times it's a career-limiting decision, particularly when the competition gains a significant advantage and you could be locked out in the future.

So much for "Trust but verify." It's one thing when a burglar shouts through your door or wall "Alexa, open the garage door." It's another when someone intentionally leverages voice-activated systems' vulnerabilities stealthily to send your computer to sites where it could be easily compromised, resulting in you losing…

Actually, I suspect those are all indoors. ;^)

Sigh. Dreaming of doing this, need more bodies to help out here. If there's someone out there who'd love to work in Health Care I.T., let me know--we're hiring for our Fargo, North Dakota office.

Auto detect of new network infrastructure, and auto configuration of NPM, NCM, NTA to manage/monitor those new pieces of network infrastructure, would also be nice. I was just playing with ISE this morning, thinking of how the automatically downloadable ACLs reconfigure Cisco switch ports to provide the appropriate access…

Nicely fixed (9/7/2018)! And the text/fonts render properly this time around, too. Thank you!

Orion mapping tools can fun to use, easy and intuitive--IF you're taking monitored/managed nodes from NTM and dropping them into a map and clicking Connect. Mapping tools that go out and discover all devices on the network and then present them in a map--not so fun & useful, despite multiple options for filtering. I'm…

There's certainly nothing like coming out to the living room in your bare feet at night and discovering you forgot to let the dog outside to do her "business" before you went to bed. That's one heck of a bot. 

An unexpected challenge in moving to O365 can be the firewall resources required to inspect the very-large amounts of e-mail files and historical Office documents that must pass through a firewalled DMZ on the way to the cloud. Although the firewall may be correctly sized for typical daily throughput it might not be sized…

This seems to work well. Do you have a recommendation for getting the the returned switch information to function as a hot link to the switch's NPM node page, or to display the switch's management IP address when one hovers the mouse cursor over it? Thank you for your kind sharing, ashleyh​ ! Rick Schroeder

Windows 7 deadline fast approaching. And I am still forced by medical equipment builders/vendors to purchase equipment with embedded Windows 95 and 98. It makes me firewall more and more things. Thanks goodness for NPM and NCM for managing them all.

As long as you stay away from Sir Mix-A-Lot parodies . . . "I like big bump and I cannot lie . . ."

Uber: Why can't people just get along, be ethical, act like they'd like to be treated . . .? Where are we going wrong with bringing up children who become active in business in ways that SHOULD show their good scruples and high morals, but don't?

It's nice having affordable equipment that's lightweight enough to manage, and good enough to fill one's personal quality standards for excellence. I'm glad those are good products for you. If I were still in that mode I'd definitely look into them (no pun intended). But since I've focused more on fishing & music…

Still seems to be the same philosophy today. Folks want what they want when they want it. Even when it cuts into business time and resources. Forcing business to spend more time training, building policies, tracking, blocking. Sort of a never ending spiral. Can folks put aside their desire for entertainment and spend the…

Ah, but have you seen the pricing structure per database for DPA? I could easily spend $1M on DPA licensing alone. Maybe Opra has some DPA license money for me . . .?

This is perfect timing for me!

Tech innovations anywhere can be good for private and public sector economies, businesses, and individuals. As long as they're designed and built with security and support in mind (first and foremost), they can help drive new products and solutions. Just look at all the offshoots from the space program that added private…

Bringing lawsuits against Intel for hardware vulnerabilities that, apparently, no one knew about or recognized until recently--that doesn't seem to make sense to me. It'll be the responsibility of the plaintiffs to prove Intel intentionally designed something brand new that was done carelessly or recklessly. I give Intel…