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Another tool to help break down the silos, share the info, and build teams that work with each other instead of in isolated environments. Thanks, SolarWinds!

When I worked in the Public School systems in the 1990's I had to become "platform agnostic" and be able to support/troubleshoot/configure/replace any computer the schools owned, be it Windows 3.1 or Apple OS6. We had to work with and troubleshoot AppleTalk, EtherTalk, and IP. And not make recommendations for or against…

Show us the tool, then teach us how to break down the silos so it can be deployed.

I've been on both of those lines. And seen amazing examples of both. It's fun to imagine.

I'm for anything that will better ensure standardization--where it's appropriate. Although this article's topic covers one approach, SysAdmins "should have" been on top of server sprawl and configuration drift in the VM world from the first day a VM product was tested or put on line. Even as they needed to be on top of…

Bump. Click the "thumbs up/Kudos" button at the top left to tell Solarwinds you think this would be a time-saver for you and your team.

FUN! Someone has too much time--and I appreciate it!

Thanks for sharing, and keep up the good work. Accessing a phone booth from a classic 1980's Mathew Broderick movie: Payphone - Wargames - YouTube

I'm intrigued the the drive & listen. How "real time" is it? Does the feed play back accidents or crimes inadvertently observed? I, too, am transported back to places I've driven when I see some of the feeds. Oslo, Stockholm, San Francisco . . . Interesting! Thank you for sharing this.

Very enjoyable content linked here! Thanks

Regarding the bottled water ridiculousness, Nestle is one of many that told its board "We want people to start believing that tap water is poison. That way they'll all turn to us for bottled water and we'll all become millionaires!" And it happened. PEOPLE BUY BOTTLED TAP WATER AND THINK IT'S BETTER THAN THEIR OWN TAP…

I'm glad to know the experience is a positive one for some companies. When we started migrating 17,000 employee's Outlook mail boxes to the cloud, the load overwhelmed our firewalls' ability to process packets through DMZ interfaces. We had to reduce throughput, and then turn off inspection on that outbound traffic, since…

Imagine a firewall or IDS/IPS system that intelligently detected new flows and configured monitors for them in Orion, while at the same time building rules to pass those flows, but first sending the rules to Change Management for approval before deploying them.

My Top Ten Tech Picks for this Black Friday: In no particular order: * A UDT that works as advertised. (Sorry, SW. I'm upgrading my NAM to the latest RC in a few days, fingers are crossed!) * Waterproof computer backpack (my daughter's heading to Ireland after Christmas, she thinks she's going to get soaked!) * Abu Garcia…

So MANY things would be interesting to put into fictional, fun battle brackets. But the ones that come to mind at the moment are too fact-based. For example, I'd enjoy seeing brackets filled with: * Network Monitoring Suites--different brands, different modules, different contracted Support solutions for them. * Countries,…

It was a consideration to wait until next Monday to share this info. I felt it was OK to provide the method to discover the information, as long as I didn't provide the answer. After all, it's all for education, fun, a little swag, and some points. I like when more people can understand how to get the answer correct the…

Please compare and contrast Logwatch + LEM to Splunk. Or is this apples and orangutans?

Whoops! Sorry 'bout that--I didn't dig deeply enough in. But the concept remains the same--if you can find a port that's used without authentication, NetPath should be able to use it. And might having SW modify NetPath to use SIP Authentication be an interesting Feature Request?

It might be that AI will introduce more complexity to federal computing. Certainly it will narrow the field of people who are able to build and understand jobs and successfully modify/correct them. Perhaps it will introduce more vulnerabilities. In this day of increasingly complex and frequent and subtle attempts to access…

This highlights one of the special features about growing "older" in the network field--keeping up with technologies and acronyms. Maybe I'm not the only one who immediately thought of hard drives that are Integrated Drive Electronics? There I am, dated.

Timely. Trust but verify. But why no mention of Solarwinds' cloud monitoring solutions?

Awww--I LOVE Leeloo! She's a sweetie, with awesome martial arts skills. She also happens to be the universe's secret weapon to the Ultimate Evil.

I loved that original article about facial recognition saying multiple legislators were wanted criminals when it came out. And that's with equipment that's sensitive enough to discover subtle nuances between faces. Imagine how challenging facial recognition is for our poor old organic brains. Frequently people of one race…

Moore's Law rocks!

Libra losing support is unfortunate for those who dreamed big, but maybe allowing Facebook to have even more views into our personal data & finances was a bad idea from the start.

Regarding undead accounts in general, I had to build a spreadsheet that lists all the places where our Network Analysts' accounts reside so they can be completely disabled or removed when that person changes responsibilities or employers. There's a LOT of external places, including changing access to Cisco TAC support…

It's almost as if every organization needs monitors and metal detectors at every door checking that people have NOT brought verboten items in, and that they HAVE brought their brains into work.

It all boils down to competence, right? And part of competence includes good communications. And another part of competence includes being able to take on a task and deal with it effectively and complete the job. Good communication between people, about improving communication between network devices. That's part of being…

Bitcoin "anything" is good? Cloud "anything" is good? Storing Bitcoin in the cloud is "a thing" for anyone with intelligence? I say let those who refuse to learn from history repeat it. Unless they're doing it with my investments or tax money.