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IF DNA is a valid and reliable technology for identifying criminals, then I've no problems with it being used as evidence. It must be secure, safe from tampering and corruption, reliable and trustworthy. This is one area where I'm in favor of everyone in the planet contributing their DNA to an identification…

Netflix Titus Open-Source and Containerless? Show me how it's secured against bad guys using it against us. AWS and Azure proved to be unripe for prime time when hackers found they could spin up a VM quickly, hack from it, and spin down and get out of town. What prevents Netflis OSS from being as vulnerable, and as…

You hit the nail on the head with your last sentence: " . . . if it's less prickly or requires less watering, sometimes a lateral move can be a win." I've had peers leave to work for other companies for the same salary, but no on-call schedule and no after-hours & weekend needs. That's a win, even though they couldn't…

Somehow I've missed that one over my trips into the UnDP's. Thanks!

I've seen both results--a new MBA sometimes doesn't make any more salary, or the additional degree may bring a pay bump. Know for certain what your company will offer in pay increases before you invest in the time & classes. You may find you'll be out the time & tuition and get no raise. Or you may discover your business…

The comments are as good as the original linked content. Bounties. Businesses have successfully gotten support from employees (for decades) by sharing cost savings with those who find & report problems. In some cases it might be a significant bonus to the employee. A friend works for a multi-national corporation, and she…

I have duplicated the problem in my environment and agree--your idea has merit.

I think ecklerwr1​ expresses some of my misgivings well. When it comes to frustration for IT professionals and home users, CHANGE can be a four-letter-word if it's not done in a manner that's obviously beneficial (fixes problems) and if using the changed interface or process is not immediately intuitive. Imagine if NPM's…

OK, so what is Solarwinds' answer to the backup dilemma? NCM can't do the job, but can that be stated with a qualified "Yet!"?

So much is included in the right name, the right spin. I just like knowing I can access the "Success Center!"

If you don't have NCM, get it. Use it, analyze its recorded configuration changes every time.

Be careful--I've heard Murphy monitors this page. He'll be working to see you end up with a job where you start work at 2 p.m. and get to go home at 11 a.m.

That's a LONG way to go for Jack Links. Comparatively speaking, they are made not that far from my back yard. Jack Link's Beef Jerky - Wikipedia

Meraki has some easy web links to access that give access to an hour-long info-share. Once complete, you can sign up to get a free Meraki device--Z3, MX, etc.

I keep a legacy version of Kiwi running on a different server, and I configure my most critical infrastructure to send syslog/trap information to that server. Then I leave an RDP session open to that resource and I dedicate a monitor 100% to it, 7x24. From there I see every critical change that occurs to the network in…

Cool. Now to get SW to tie it into their product line natively, and tweak it so GUI users can select options and test them without having to key in phrases (to save time with typos & syntax errors).

Our VAR, and Cisco, tell us LOTS of customers are using FirePower/FireSight now for firewalling/IPS/IDS and more. Even my sites have migrated to it, and getting it fully monitored & managed via NPM and NCM is critical. What's the current support status for this security solution with Solarwinds Orion products?

There's another way of putting it: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

Absolutely--you're very correct. "Different" doesn't mean "Incompatible" or "incompetent." I look forward to new team members, learning about what makes their lives full and interesting, while working with them to achieve new high marks for network and system and application performance. On the other hand, sometimes folks…

My DBA saw the issue and has been analyzing logs, troubleshooting it. It turns out the system hosting my Orion database is also hosting several other databases, one of which was out of control. So FAR out of control that it impacted the other databases on that system. Yes, my system was disconnected from the Orion database…

The challenges: * Trying to provide access while keeping it secure and compliant * Fulfilling everyone's "needs" while keeping things standardized and easy to manage and troubleshoot * Finding ways to manage every different access type going to every different destination and every application, efficiently and affordably…

Blue Light and its blockers and their apps. My kids are all about this. They're skeptical Millenials in college or grad school, trusting many things about which they (perhaps) should remain skeptical.

More on this, please? I think this topic is worthy of a weekly page on its own, that grows and digs and provides depth and best practices.

Brute Force and the LHC? My son's worked to support the LHC at Cern the last two summers in Switzerland. Anything about that scientific tool and endeavor is interesting to me. Thanks for posting this!

It's challenging to imagine what would happen to the world if IT Pros suddenly were unavailable. Better still, imagine societies that didn't evolve to use Information Technology at all. I can't. Even making charcoal marks on a rock (to count, to mark a direction or a path, etc.) is implementing a (primitive) technology for…

Monday-morning-POWER-BUMP!

We trade it in towards new gear. If it's obsolete and has no value, I wipe the configs and send it off to a local recycler who tears it down to component level to recover gold, silver, and copper, which they resell. The rest is broken down for the metal value and recycled that way. The circuit boards are considered…

You've got some great observations, Simeon. Like you, I live in the Health Care industry. But so far none of my customers rely on our Solarwinds products so aggressively that auto updates and troubleshooting new problems they cause would be a hardship. All I'm interested in is having a well-working NMS, and since upgrading…

Apps as Onions: As much as I love innovation and new products, somehow I was sucked into imagining parallels between this story and any other complex product. And then I thought of Solarwinds. Wouldn't you love to have an overview and a back-room transcript of how the entire set of products came to be? Would it be the…

I don't know the taste difference between feral and farm, but I've had chops from a neighbor's "free range" pigs and found them to be vastly more delicious than the chops I can get at the grocery store. If you've had chops or roast or loin or bacon from a feral pig, is there a taste difference between it and…