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I took the easy way out: backhoe fade is 100% down. It gets nebulous and gray when saying "application X is essentially unusable when latency exceeds some number of milliseconds, or when bandwidth drops below a specified rate." Having SD-WAN or IWAN available can still result in that application being down if it needs a…

IoT is truly about trash, keeping up with the Jones (based on advertising that encourages us to get rid of our current phones and ALWAYS have a phone payment), without a plan to deal with the current/legacy equipment. All one has to do is look at the Blackberries, Nokias, Motorolas filling the waste dumps. This is nothing…

I like the idea. It would be fun AND intuitive to have a drop-down window showing all alerts possible--including UnDP-based alerts. To be able to select one or several or all. To see the outputs in a test. It's a potentially large list when NPM alerts on traps and syslog content. Just the trap options alone on a Layer 2…

Staying up to date remains mission-critical, and training of staff must be funded if they are to provide the best advice to Management and the best configuration choices for high availability. However, the fact that less than two-thirds of government departments use the cloud is not a red flag, to me. Rather, let us draw…

I submit that much of this (ALL of it?) can be done with the proper NMS. WPM and SAM and DPA, combined with NPM, can provide the in-depth and automated analysis and alerting that an organization needs to discover Application performance problems and their causes. It takes the right IT Management to understand this, and to…

I really appreciate having folks in Australia running the gauntlet of Mission questions before we in the States can even see them. xandurr​, your efforts are outstanding!

Happy days. The mission is gone. Long live the new mission!

"Direct peer with the Six up in Seattle?"

No blog post to write, but I haven't particularly kept my impressions about the cloud and its risks private on Thwack. Nor have I ever said it's fast, reliable, or secure--quite the opposite, in fact. Frankly, I was much more productive prior to our Outlook and Office being moved to the cloud. Things crawl now, where they…

I've always been a fan of the private cloud over the public one. Thanks for this.

The challenges of getting 100% compliance for confidential compliance seem daunting. We can't get 100% of people to agree on anti-malware or anti-virus tools & regularly updating them. Nor can we get 100% of people to stop writing malware, or stop using the Internet for nefarious purposes. And if we don't achieve 100%…

Nope. Space Camp was a great investment, with excellent return in experiences, knowledge, awareness, travel, and new friends and acquaintances made. If you can do Space Camp, do Space Camp. You won't regret it. Sure, you might not go to space, might not have a flying car. You might even end up as something that lets your…

Otis was the soul man on the scene, and without him, that band was flat. The Starlighters didn't have the peppy song, but they made the better music. It's g'Knight to Otis, and let the Starlighters shine!

I'll go out on a limb and hypothesize that if the next major release of NPM were to happen this fall, I'd bet I'd have the option to implement a "darker" theme option than we have today. I'd HOPE to implement a really COOL dark-side-of-the-force / high-tech / Strategic Air Command lightning & thunder clouds at night…

Sigh . . . if only.

I somewhat distrust religious groups (even though I belong to one) because they too often don't seem to practice what they preach--or practice & preach things that don't bring people together to solve problems. Because they too often abuse their positions of trust. Because their written guides were written by people, and…

Your comment about bit currency mining through a nuclear energy plant's network was spot on. Nicely called!

And this is why I peruse the old blogs--I didn't know the Toolset & NTM integrated. Gotta try this out.

Apple products killed our 200 Mb Guest Internet pipe when the latest version of iOS was released. Folks chose to have their iPhones and iPads do the iOS upgrade while they were at work instead of at home, impacting work resources and paying guests. Not impressed.

And the recipe:

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Your comment reminds me of the opening night of Desert Storm, where we eliminated enemy radar with cruise missiles and took away their ability to remotely see our airplanes coming in. Low-visibility Stealth aircraft then had a lower risk for their sorties. Hopefully we're not advertising ALL we have or can do. I suspect…

Absolutely--having a plan for response and actions is critical for reducing exposure. Building your response plan is an opportunity to discuss hypotheticals and assign responsibilities for actions. "If you discover a bogus admin account has been created and recently accessed, Teams X, Y, and Z are to begin actions defined…

It occurs to me that, living in Minnesota as I do, I don't need a summer reading list. Summer is brief too spend reading, the warm weather too precious and fleeting, to spend my all-too-brief summer planning time with a book. I'll spend all the good weather out fishing or camping or water skiing or canoeing or exploring.…

Ooo . . . Burn down the data center and the staff to fix the problem . . . Yikes!

The same here--we don't allow ICMP across firewall boundaries. I've read that being a good "Netizen" (Internet Citizen) means stopping your unnecessary personal and corporate traffic from hitting the Internet. "Unnecessary" in this context includes outbound ICMP, because so many pieces of malware (like Zombies, Trojans,…

I voted yes. But is administratively disabling the down ports an acceptable option? Then you ​know​ they're down, and someone has to contact you to use them.

Hopefully everyone is leveraging this information. AND they all receive training to make sense of it, and can act on the information intelligently once they're collecting it.

Facebook launching crypto-currency? Uff-da! Can everyone say "That's a really bad idea!" or "Why didn't you learn from previous block chain currencies that failed?" Maybe the answer is "We learned from watching organized crime successfully leveraging block-chain currencies to anonymize criminal activity and make a lot of…