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I enjoyed your story, and am aware of parallels in my past work environments. Truly, if you build a network and its security so it impedes workers' abilities to accomplish tasks, they'll spend time trying to circumvent your roadblocks. Be afraid they'll succeed.

Autonomous mail delivery is coming, and other deliveries, too. Just imagine a hacker or malevolent group / nation-state finding a way to control them. Or just imagine simple human error. loganTrim - YouTube Autonomous vehicles might need to be postponed until ALL vehicles are autonomous, lest human error intervene on the…

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When I started 2020 I'd no idea my living room would become WFH Command Central, but it turned out working from home--supporting a hospital network and remotely managing 65,000 IP addresses across three states and over a hundred hospitals, clinics, office buildings, and warehouses--was efficient. Solarwinds truly lends…

If you find a new link to the original content, my organization could benefit from virtual teams to help break through the silos and advocate new solutions based on each team's expertise.

Cloud-based "Availability Zones?" Oh dear, me--no. I just experienced an APC management tool go out of control five days ago, and it DDOS'd my cloud-based Outlook with half-a-million alerts. And I've been unsuccessful and cleaning them out and getting Outlook going again. That's the beauty of the cloud, right? If my…

This just in: Network Managers may be advised to restructure their data flows to prefer UDP to TCP for all communications. This might be in concordance with the World Health Organization's recommendation to avoid hand-shakes that could spread disease.

I wouldn't sweat it being blocked. There are no Thwack points offered for completing it. It appears a method solely used to gather contact information about you and your company, presumably to better target you for advertising. Here's the graphs from the pages for Banking entities: The initial variables included your job…

I hear you, and agree with the philosophy. But I've no idea if any company can make decisions that are not based on cost. Instead, I'd turn it over 180 degrees and require them to consider decisions based on results created by insufficient training, insufficient monitoring, etc. You'd probably find every MBA and successful…

After the cloud, true wet-ware computing is supposedly on the horizon. Many futurists are saying that within twenty years there will be implants within our bodies that leverage brain-to-network transmissions of data, either wired or wireless. If anyone wants to talk about electronic versus real viruses, that'll be the…

I've seen this exact scenario several times; it's astute of you to point it out and get people thinking about what's right for their environment versus what's possible to monitor and alert on. Your observations about too much information, then too little, then missing important info, and finally tweaking monitors and…

Wouldn't you love to be in the Solarwinds back room watching & listening to the ideas flow, the design team talking about what the customers want/need, whether it can be built and added or not, and then how to actually implement it? I would!

Some versions of SW products offered PDF's that only showed what fit on the screen, not the hundreds of nodes in the report/list/view that scrolled off the screen. Let's make sure THAT never happens again!

Depending on who you talk to, traditional L1 - L7 skills are obsolete and will be phased out to be replaced by programming skills, or some hybrid of skills will be required, or programming skills that make network connectivity a dumb commodity item, easily replaced by low-skilled worker bees will never reach practicality.…

Would you imagine any limits to this? For example, I monitor about 60,000 ports, IP addresses, and Access-layer devices, including 800 switches & routers & firewalls, plus another 3,000 wireless access-points. That many radial gauges doesn't scale well to a page, not to mention I can't imagine waiting for it to load or…

I like your idea, but I can see cases where reverting wouldn't be possible--particularly regarding security like TACACS. If you change the IP addresses of TACACS servers, or their PSK's, or other AAA settings in a Cisco device, from that point onward NCM (and YOU) will be unable to make corrections to role back mistakes.…

I think the reviewer missed Episode 1's protagonist. It wasn't Obi Wan, and not Qui Gon. It was always R2. Lucas even said so--his series should have been named something like "The Trials Of A Droid". When C-3PO's continuous complaining takes place, and his observations of discrimination and unfairness, it really drives…

But how many red shirts remain? Or were they all lost on away missions? Would you just need "More me"? Or is it time to go to Star Fleet Academy for more ensigns?

OK, you DID say "show us your greatest IT FEARS", not actual personal first-hand data center events I had to clean up after . . . 1. Water in the data center: 2. Data center fires: I'm also not particularly looking forward to: * My name or my company's name showing up in the headlines for anything negative * Compliance…

What? An I.T. Geek/Expert/Uber-Master has CLI skills but has difficulty relating to others, and difficulty communicating with people? He lackings the ability to empathize? HOW COULD THIS BE POSSIBLE? IT'S SHOCKING! (Please forgive my sarcasm. I work with loads of IT Geeks who are experts in their field, and nice people on…

I worked briefly with a fellow who'd been with the Center for Disease Control for years. He told me they didn't allow any wireless connectivity at all, and no BYOD in specific. I'd like to work in that kind of environment, even if only from a security and sleep-at-night point of view.

Not only is government behind, but every vendor who makes items that are reviewed and approved by the FDA is WAY behind the curve. Health care organizations are stuck with 802.11b devices cluttering up their SSIDs, with little end in sight. Some of those medical scanning & monitoring devices are expected to last just like…

I've wished many times for this functionality. It's present in some areas of Solarwinds, but not all. When I'm in this area, I usually want to discover the same thing, and NOT discover the same things. For example, I'm going through a forklift upgrade of switches right now, and the new switches will receive the same names…

Long ago I worked as a Network Admin in a public school system where teachers understood the value of getting kids to be interested in computers--this was pre-Internet days. The teachers would go out and spend their own money to buy a copy of a math or spelling program because the school district had no budget for the…

It sounds completely reasonable, to me. How long has patching & security been "a thing"? How long will it take for others to accept reality and start accommodating it? You're spot on.

I think part of what Management finds attractive about moving away from tape includes: * Recovered floor space & weight in the data center. Our big robot tape systems are roughly 6' deep, 6' high, and maybe 24' long. We have several, and they occupy rented data center floor space. * Moving parts in tape robots break. *…

What can I say? It's a hospital system. You wouldn't want your life-saving medical treatment postponed for a week or a month just because the medical device was unpatched and compromised, or patched and adversely affected. I realize we ALL want great up time for our networks and devices, but medical systems are…

Gene Roddenberry had that scenario down, pat. Unfortunately it required: * Free access to unlimited power (via Dilithium Crystals which powered cheap transportation, communication, and replicators) * Replicators * A movement away from owning and collecting "things", and a movement toward personal experience and growth and…