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I always figured SW / Orion SAN Manager would great to have even with just one SAN . . .

Like others here, my organization shut down USB ports, and implemented an encryption policy on those not locked down. I see it as a very good thing for business security.

I'm a bit of two minds regarding mandating electric cars to increase their noise pollution. I'll go with the side that says "Leave 'em silent. In a few generations the gene pool will be weeded out of those who remain unaware of their environment."

Well, no one expected the Spanish Inquisition, either . . . ;^)

Ugh. That's painful. And I've done it too many times in the last twenty-five years to enjoy going through it again. SW could do us a huge plus by using an automated rediscovery feature that actually updates what's present and what's no longer there when we replace hardware.

It's an interesting challenge. I've never used Aruba. Our Cisco WLAN has about 12,000 AP's and clients on it, and I manage it via Cisco Prime. Prime has more than enough canned reports to make life busy, and we name our AP's intuitively so we know exactly where every individual unit is, simply by looking at its name in…

Not participating in online communities results in isolation and fosters ignorance and uninformed decisions. Get out there and start reading and sharing. Participating can only open your eyes to new solutions, new ideas.

My experience is that there is no recent spike in support times; SW support seems to have always been slow--particularly when opening cases online instead of calling. I've used them since 2004 and haven't noticed positive or negative changes in response times for new cases--they're always much slower than I expect. My rule…

Dude--SERIOUSLY? (I Googled "Skin a cat" and found a Youtube video about dissecting cats, with complete instructions. EEEWWWWWW!)

Solarwinds C.E.O. Kevin B. Thompson rang my bell in his latest open letter to the public when he referenced the many good things (including the Success Center) that are happening for customers. I'm not a celebrity, but I'm also not quite as isolated as I thought . . .

From the Encryption Cheat Sheet article, the one thing people need to understand is: We saw this when WEP was released for wireless encryption, touted to be "Wired Equivalent Protection", and it was broken in days. Vendors didn't move away from WEP from far too long. Worse, it's STILL available as an option to select when…

It occurs to me that if SW built a data warehouse that we could use to track long term trends, it could be used for tracking Thwack users' scores along with the Leader Board. Now THAT would be hitting two birds with one stone!

I agree 100% with the article: Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never, Ever, Ever Be Illegal. EVER.

Using insecure VPN's, old code, inappropriate passwords, poor password saves, drinking polluted water, eating rotten food, sharing needles, and tugging on Super Man's cape . . . They're all poor ideas. Just don't do it.

Say more about the newer Nexus polling, please? If I'm using NPM and NCM to manage non-Nexus interfaces that are port-channeled between switches, I want to find an easy way to discover and group them all, and to alert when one goes down. Similarly, I want the same thing for Nexus and ACI ports. I don't know how to do it…

Electric Scooters. It's easy to see why they seemed like a good idea and became pretty popular. It's even easier to see what happens when great forethought doesn't take place before releasing them to the public without proper management & rules & training. "What could go wrong?"

I'm still trying to get my Security team interested in this, but they just bought Splunk for beaucoup $$ and are enthralled with the amount of data they can mine. For my money, SW makes a much more intuitive GUI than Splunk. But those guys are deep into command line and database analysis, so maybe Splunk is OK for them to…

Cool. I look forward to the rest of your series. My personal expectation is that "real" Artificial Intelligence doesn't exist to match my person definition and expectations. If it DID exist I would expect it to behave according to its childhood environment, offering proof of the impact nurture has on a developing…

"WHOIS" going away? Or changing drastically? I can't say I'll miss all the spam I get through that resource. But the resource serves a valuable purpose--whose time has perhaps come. Doing something better is good--if it's truly "better" in all the ways that are important, without losing functionality on which we've come to…

If you have NPM, half the battle is won. The other half is ensuring the devices of concern can send traps and are configured correctly to do so. This part is often the bigger battle in my environment--hospitals (where I work) tend to hold on to products far longer than other businesses. The end result is incompatible…

Glaxo teaming up with 23andMe? Sends shivers down my spine! The potential for abuse is too high. I imagine PHI or PII being associated with genetic characteristics that have to do with increased health care costs, resulting in insurance companies denying coverage to people just because of their DNA. Thanks, but no thanks.

Bring 'em on! Our Security Team's all over this, I look forward to see the results of any audit.

Going back to Quint versus Morgan, it's plain that Morgan had the intelligence, charisma, and guile to attract buccaneers, soldiers, sailors, and kings to his side. Quint would have sailed a ship for Morgan; never the other way around. Morgan remains the clear outstanding successful leader, even while Quint has his own…

I've experienced the same thing--products could not be considered if they weren't in the upper right area of Garner's Magic Quadrant. It took years to prove that graphic was only a popularity contest that aggregated opinions of people who may have only used one of the many products listed. How anyone can accurately compare…

Yes! This! I agree with your opinion on using "hacker" as a positive name/title.

I discovered that if I show up for my annual health exam 45 minutes early, and then spend that time watching Youtube videos of puppies and kittens I can trim 30 points off my systolic blood pressure measurement (the first number, or the top number), and trim 25 points off my diastolic number (the second, or lower, blood…

I agree with the idea that bikes make a better solution in certain areas. Not so much for me, living 18 miles from work, and a 700' change in elevation the last half mile. I know a guy who used to make that commute on bicycle. He was in exemplary physical condition, and I envied his lack of body fat. Not enough to emulate…

Network configurations stressing us out? Impossible with NCM!