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We went through the ITIL phase some years ago. It was the do-all, be-all, end-all for Management. My group was severely under-staffed, but we tried to play the game. I actually had enough stability that I got out of Reactive and was starting to be able to take a few steps into the Proactive realm, and the Predictive and…
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Remember to define your expectations. If your users have been accustomed to the performance of running Office on their own computers, and now you'll be moving them to the cloud, definitely do a proof of concept that includes your biggest critics. If you can get them on board, if they're satisfied with the speed and…
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Re-envisionment-of-bump.
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It's a good idea. Wireless devices roaming across an organization can easily show up in areas where a new IP address is required. Particularly if they're also roaming across SSID's (which really isn't "roaming" so much as "changing networks based on criteria", like security-capabilities or needs). However, that DOES create…
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wabbott You were looking for new bracket themes for the coming year. I think everyone missed that topic. Here are a few--I hope other Thwack members contribute their creative ideas, too. * Car brands and models * Countries? * Leading Men and Ladies in movies (what would they compete in? Manliest? Most attractive? Most…
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LOTS of stuff can be seen laying on the bottom. Especially near busy water ways, or in flooded reservoirs. Boats, MANY cars, bridges, foundations of flooded homes, roads, crashed (or intentionally sunken) airplanes, etc. Not to mention schools of fish. And if you're in the right part of the world, large reptiles! Can you…
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Strong feedback loops. I think Solarwinds has one of the better ones around, and we benefit from it as much or more than they do. On the other hand, my first impression to seeing "feedback loop" in print was "microphone feedback", which is a powerful tool for pain. My second impression was a Spanning-tree loop, which…
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Hacked Yahoo Account? I've certainly had a few Yahoo accounts over the years, and have seen a big rise in the amounts and types of spam sent to them in the last six months, which is likely explained by the story. This is a great article--anyone with an e-mail account should read it, no matter if their account is with Yahoo…
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I'll go out on a limb and disagree with just a few of this item's philosophical assumptions: Assess the Network OK, this is common sense. Acknowledge that Wireless is the Way * I don't think we must blindly accept "Wireless is The Way." Doing so sets you up for failure, if for no other reasons than:* It's not as reliable…
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An interesting topic, hit in numerous locations. One Company's Journey Out of Darkness: Part I - What tools do we have?
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Carina's story of automation failure is too familiar. At the outset it sounds like it's a good strategy. After the project eventually failed and was abandoned, hindsight reveals many of the challenges. Working with reliable tools & web browsers certainly is a prerequisite. Training the QA person, AND the staff they'd be…
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I heard about this on NPR this morning: This Baker Makes Internet Trolls Eat Their Words — Literally : The Salt : NPR Talk about "taking the cake!"
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I'll take the electric jet when it's affordable, quiet, and is self-driven. Taking the human error (or maliciousness) out of the equation should be required before putting a single one of these together. Trying to take that away in the future will go the way of gun control, with big corporations fighting against it, and…
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Is anyone surprised that Open Source products/code is insecure, buggy, vulnerable, and possibly even hiding malicious things? It IS "open source". Meaning anyone can get their hands on it, modify it, maybe weaponize it, introduce vulnerabilities to it . . . All that bad stuff simply goes against the positive and…
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Our corporate food service presented us today with a big "Christmas Tea" this morning, including veggies, hot dip, salsa, chips, barbecued meatballs, many kinds of Christmas cookies, hot chocolate & hot cider, and BACON-SPRINKLED CHEESECAKE!
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The correct answers will be posted in January.
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What's not to like? As long as it's secure, and your staff are trained, and you've got Change Management and notifications in place, and you do have them do maintenance solely within maintenance windows . . . Sort of like saying "What could go wrong?" Not so much, if you train and test and trust and have great monitoring…
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It appears the only consistency that programmers can rely on for "time" is that the rules will change. They'll change many times. They'll change without adequate notice. And that accommodating "all" time zone requirements won't be possible until Sky-Net controls everything.
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I'm feeling the entire end-user issue of training (or the lack thereof) is missed. End users are a huge source of security implementations or security risks. Keeping training in the mix of solutions for prevention of insecure practices is important!
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Wow! That's a lot of power, all at one time. Congratulations, all! I'm happy to see the United Kingdom represented, too. I look forward to the day when many more countries will have SW MVP's and we can expand our knowledge and diversity, and grow from new perspectives and cultures.
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Perhaps my #1 I.T. Distraction is Thwack. (sigh) I admit it; I'm a Thwack junkie. But NPM and its modules are equally "distracting", if that word is fair. Non-actionable Alerts is another thing I focus on, and they are good things to reduce. (If only I could get the Security Team to stop scanning my UPS's and ATS's ports…
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I admired / envied those with deeper pockets than mine for their audiophile equipment. I sprung for a programmable Marantz SD 9000 tape deck and loved it! At the same time I picked up an ADC paragraphic equalizer sound-shaper to tweak the Yamaha NS 690-II speakers that I later augmented with a pair of Bose 901 Series IV's.…
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One of this month's prizes interests me: The handheld Garmin GPS is a $228.00 prize. I've used a Garmin very much like it for around ten years, and while the screen is tiny, it's reliable. I've been happy with it when driving on frozen lakes, to find underwater structure to drill over and ice fish. It's also been fun to…
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I'd be OK with some super nerds and security geeks creating a convention for The Cloud and also for a hybrid Cloud solution. And after great analysis & RFC's, everyone signs off on in and implements it in ways that leverage synergy and cool intuitive efficiencies. Instead of the tail wagging the dog, and the users wanting…
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I love it when a complex idea is boiled down to its essential concepts. This is useful. Thank you.
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Tongue firmly in cheek:
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That's good news, serena--thank you very much.
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My mind (apparently) works the Oxford way. I get hung up without it in a sentence with unseparated options. That's my limitation, but I appreciate Oxford has an explanation for aberrant minds like mine.
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Just like Meraki equipment, we're using more Cradle Point solutions that leverage the cloud (whether we like it or not). Getting performance and management capabilities and insight here would be sweet with SolarWinds.
