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I like seeing products I use/own receiving awards. However, I don't know the value of kudos from SC Magazine and GSN. I've gotten the impression that anyone who pays either, or who advertises through either, or is a partner of either, gets great reviews. Coincidence? Collusion? Nepotism? How truly isolated is SW from SC…

I'd like to think that entities are not only accustomed to policies and budgets changing, but that they may one day find ways to use automation to prevent them from being surprised by changes. That includes changes in actual security postures and vulnerabilities, or in funding, or in technology. Imagine deploying a system…

It occurs to me that, by not voting down, one tacitly agree to the up-voters. This resulted in approximately 15% of the eligible voting population of Minnesota choosing a professional wrestler as governor for the whole state. Those who didn't vote no to that candidate essentially created a tacit vote FOR him. Here in…

I want that as a title on my Business Card: "Hyperconverged Infrastructure Expert". In reality, all I might be able to claim is "Hyperconverged Fishing Equipment Expert".

I also thought everyone (and I do mean every single person and country in the world) understood that organized crime uses cryptocurrency to launder their illegal funds. Who didn't know this? And why not?

It's a great opening statement: " . . .bring your own device (BYOD), bring your own application (BYOA), software-defined networking (SDN), and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) have dramatically increased network vulnerabilities . . ." It brought to mind this year's reveals from Yahoo that three Billion accounts'…

I say this philosophy also applies to fishing, improving one's productive time, catching & releasing more. And education. And life. And business. And relationships. Saayyy--you're Ninja-ing us quite sneakily, molding our subconscious minds toward productive thought and action patterns. Are there Ninja points that we can…

VMWare? The cream rises to the top. The superior products will be invited to play & stay. The others . . . not so much.

We keep bumping this great idea, but we're apparently the I.T. equivalents of Sisyphus.

I've been in your same "information overload" / "death by syslog-trap" situation. A helpful option for me was installing Kiwi Syslog and pointing only certain key systems to it, which enables Kiwi to have high-impact information show up and not be buried. My systems that report both to Kiwi AND to NPM are Core and…

Wow! Food & beverages are strictly verboten from our data centers and network rooms. Was such a policy in place at your location--even though it was from a neighboring cage? If not, I hope that policy is deployed now. How about a bill for recovery services & downtime impact--was it sent to the company of the Big Gulp…

I suspect (or maybe I merely "want") that this might be accomplishable via SQL or SWQL. Did you open a ticket with Support and ask about that option? Did they say taking an outage was the only way to achieve your goal?

And the day after implementing O365 watching the Help Desk tickets go up and up and up, soaring far in the stratosphere. Their common complaint: "Everything Microsoft is slow!" "I used to be able to send an e-mail to someone near me and they'd get it right away; with O365 it sometimes takes minutes or even hours for them…

I'm reminded of the 1990's when I kept track of retiring old Novell servers and print "binderies" from our network on a daily basis. One day over a dozen new / previously undiscovered binderies showed up in my Novell window and it was time to start digging. Long story short, my WAN provider had overlapped my VPLS network…

This week's questions were a welcome respite from the standard set last month. Easy. But . .. OK, too easy. Let's get back to doing more work in the demo environment, and work that requires us to analyze and interpret, instead of moving to a specific frame in a video, or doing a text search. I like having to THINK and…

It's true, not everyone plays nicely together. We'll keep treating the symptoms. In the meantime, I hope someone's working to prevent their cause.

Three years and three months later, we're still bumping this great idea. It's not enough to just read our bumps.

Dare I suggest SW create a virtual lab environment, just like Cisco trainers access, to let someone evaluate a product in an environment SW can control and guarantee is up to date, patched properly, resourced correctly, etc.? Of course, tying it into virtual switches, databases, routers, F5's, etc. is so much to ask. But I…

That's a perfect time to show the folks with incorrect assumptions or inadequate experience or education the NPM stats showing internal temperatures of CPU's in servers and switches and routers, and of ambient air temp inputs and output. Here's some current stats from one of my Nexus 7009's in a climate-controlled data…

I always felt that Jonny Quest was the series that introduced that dramatic music--just before every commercial and cliff hanger! Jonny Quest: Music From The Original Television Series - YouTube

Surprising! What sort of SLA's go with the new services? Will your WAN be as resilient as the MPLS cloud was? What technologies did you go to when you left MPLS? What bandwidth improvements resulted? How much hardware was involved in supporting the new solutions?

Thank you, kind sir. In my ignorance, it seems as if the widget MUST live somewhere, and since no cloud server is referenced, no hardware server is referenced, it looks as if the widget only lives on your PC. Where does the widget live? You said to write the code that spins up a widget. So the widget is running on your PC,…

Thanks, John. I like your "T-Shirt size approach" description. ;^)

Agreeing on protocols and terminology by convention, the article mentioned (When is a trunk not a trunk), highlights the challenges and confusion created when companies attempt to create their own "better" solution for common needs. Nortel's vocabulary was different from HP's, and different from Cisco's. Eventually Nortel…

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Regarding a city announcing its law enforcement will not use facial recognition technologies, I applaud the concept. Particularly in light of the ability to use a disguise or otherwise render output of camera or scanner unuseable simply and affordably, but perhaps even more so in the case of genetic / family histories…

Identifying all users' equipment and forcing it to comply with 802.1x or MAB is not a task for the faint of heart.

What a luxury! Doing that in my environment could be interpreted as "a career limiting decision." We try to be accommodating and user-friendly; what goes around, comes right back at you.

Rodney! 

I'm interested to see research into this--thank you for sharing. My pessimistic side suspects the information learned from these tests will be used for "defensive" purposes in future conflicts, rather than solely seeing how we can survive a major solar flare event. But I've been wrong before, and I hope I'm wrong here, too.