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You're right in every respect. But requesting / hoping-for standards may be no different than hoping people stop writing & distributing hacks & malware. While that would be nice, no one will hold their breath waiting for it to happen. That's actually the problem--no preventative actions to keep folks from writing /…

That's definitely my experience, too. It's almost cliche for IT experts to have powerful minds that can intuit process flows and logic, while simultaneously not having equivalent inter-personal skills that would enable them to easily make friends, communicate in non-threatening ways, and be fun people to hang out with.…

Are you familiar with Steve Harvey's stand-up comedy about a wedding that includes an ankle bracelet? Yikes!

"Hygge". Nice! The last time I was in Copenhagen was in 1978 during a college choir concert tour. It made a pretty friendly impression on me. I stayed with a family who went out of their way to accommodate me and make me feel welcome. The standard of living seemed much higher there than in Minneapolis, where I come from.…

When it takes my organization eighteen months (on average) to find a new Network Analyst (we're away from the "big cities", out here on the Norwegian Riviera of Duluth, Minnesota), you can imagine how hard it is for us to find good CISSP's. We have two, and feel blessed. Three other Security Team members are working on…

Now THIS is combining Solarwinds monitoring technology with BACON!

Regarding Star Trek personal Phasers: Kid Builds Insanely Powerful Laser Device

I don't think one can earn the title of "MVP" and not want software to be easily: * Installed * Used * Upgraded * Secured * Made resilient * Uniformly deployed everywhere (at no additional charge for CALs) * Optimized for use across a WAN or slow links

Wouldn't it also be useful for an area to display support contract ID's for any node, and allow it to become a direct link to a new window that opens the node's support page.

I did the intermittent fasting thing in college a small number of times, after doing some casual reading about indigenous peoples using it to cleanse/purify their bodies, or to prepare for some vision quest. It didn't seem to hurt me (of course I was young & physically fit), and it DID seem to improve my attitude, wake me…

K.I.S.S.: The data center was the cloud, in pre-cloud days. It was more absolutely secured, both physically and logically. Access and data was simpler to control there.

And it all goes better with bacon. I loved your wrap-up, Leon. Keep on providing the answers while inspiring others and learning more. Swift packets to you & ALL the team at SW / Thwack! Rick Schroeder In the Little Red House In the Saginaw Wood

Wow. Stunned surprise. Thanks, Everyone! Fortunately I'm a professional musician on the side, playing electric bass, saxophones, keyboards, flute, clarinet, etc. for theatrical performances, church, weddings, dances, benefits . . . I know just what to do with a prize like this one. It'll fit right in with my Band-In-A-Box…

Maybe another step to add, before all others: Have people from Networks, Apps, Security, SysAdmin, and DBA in the conversation between the customer and application or hardware vendors, to ensure the customer gets the right idea about what you can support. I'd carry this so far as to try to keep incompatible vendors away…

We are responsible for not holding cloud providers' feet to the fire when we make poor decisions by choosing any provider that doesn't meet our needs or assumptions. The Cloud service providers are responsible if they are unethical and provide poor security and availability. No one forces us to choose a service without…

This is the SW activity I anticipate most in the year--right next to the Bracket series events, which are so creative! I look forward to so many of these entries--thanks for making this happen @"adatole"! Rick Schroeder

Non-harassing, distant, politically safe, professional bump.

2018 saw me implementing: * UDT * VNQM * IPAM It's also been a year for many other changes. I've started a forklift upgrade of 300+ 48-port POE switches (still ongoing), but must be complete by end of year. Changes to FDS. Adding 50,000 more ports to ISE. Redesign of ISE away from "network-centric." SD-WAN is coming. More…

I felt the same way when Security / Cisco came through and said we needed to do "segmentation" of networks. "Yep, already on top of that" I thought to myself. "That's old news, history we already took care of" I kept thinking. Then I realized they meant "You need to identify every necessary packet flow and have an ACL…

In the old days, it WAS the network. Now that I've fixed that (replaced faulty Nortel hardware and OS with Cisco and new IOS to the tune of about $8M), 9 times out of 10 it's the App or one of the resources it relies on (spinning disk/SAN/databases, etc.). But silos prevent SAM from being adopted. Silly!

Speaking as one who is forced to support poor designs, I agree that Requirements is #1. But it's something that must be looked at from multiple perspectives. Fill the customers' needs, but do so by following the requirements for the best practice support models. Don't build for YOUR test environment, build something that…

Based on the Greek tragedies and on recent movies, the clear winner from the start should have been Medusa. Popular sentiment has proven to be cable of overpowering logic and reason, which explains many things in our world. Dragon simply is more powerful than Nessie in every realm. I believe only the breakdown of common…

For 9/19's question, it's a common sense answer; no watching the video or hint required.

I like that there may be hope for a useful, secure solution to this need. But . . .

Welcome, yumdarling​! Count on us to make your life interesting. And to pester you with typos and questions and whining . . . AND to provide fun things to read, answers to questions from you and from others, and suggestions and white papers and no end of good-natured snarkiness. If/when you need a break with a laugh or…

You fear Visio Stencils? Perhaps I'm a Visiolibriphile. I'd love to see them incorporated into SW mapping tools.

If I may make so bold, I feel the MIB is a good way of measuring and displaying temperature. It's useful in identifying blocked inputs or outputs, finding problems with cold aisle and hot aisle designs, and useful for displaying the complexity and granularity of network devices. The key lies in interpreting the data and…

Seriously, EVERYONE should be reading these bits of wisdom. Not just SW product enthusiasts and users.

Bump de la bump-de-dump!

It's a challenge I can sympathize with, when top level executives seek to reduce costs by outsourcing to less-expensive overseas service providers. But we've been watching this kind of action for over a hundred years--remember high school history class discussing when California businesses sent laundry to China because it…