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Cloud-based availability and security issues have not been resolved to my satisfaction. The Cloud provider must: * Prove your resources within their facility remain highly available. Six 9's is not unreasonable to demand--it's your business, and can your business survive without domain controllers? * Be secure to the point…

Agreed, I thank you for the Delorean and Fun Mug. I can't drink that much coffee or hot chocolate, but it might be good for soup or holding melted cheese!

I see this same mentality almost daily. "If we can't do what we want on-campus, let's use the Guest Internet (either on-site or at a business next door) to do it." Running around corporate rules and firewalls is a major policy breach. Training staff about how to get their job done, and how NOT to try to do it, comes first.…

Just wow. I continually am amazed at the growing functionality--and complexity--of SW products. I don't know how you can keep it all integrated, make it all work the way it must, and track the changes and update all the links and keep the documentation up to date and train the users and . . . . I'm happy you have such…

When Comcast or other ISP's object to Net Neutrality on the basis of it restricting their ability to generate large profits, I am unsympathetic. That profit comes from users' pockets, not from some magical source of funds paid for by advertisers. I'd prefer to let the market determine Comcast's ability to charge exorbitant…

Bloom County was a favorite of mine. Although Bill The Cat never held my interest.

It's nice to see Thwack facilitating SW deployments for the bigger customers, or those who are growing, or who clearly see an organization's future is more efficient with better and more-complete monitoring.

I confess, I appreciate being able to read the transcript of the video session. Somehow that helps it sink into my memory better.

There you have it, folks. A set of real world examples in which the loss of Net Neutrality can bite us all. Thanks so much for sharing this!

My money's on The Chosen One (with P.O.G.), if next year's bracket deals with video characters. Animator vs. Animation IV (original) - YouTube

I've been supporting networking in Health Care for over fourteen years. You've touched on the basics. 1. Follow your great architecture and your I.T. vendors' guidelines. We have A. Core B. Distribution Blocks (multiple, based on geography and security needs) I. Internet II. Data Centers III. Multiple Campuses IV. WAN C.…

The basketball playoff was pretty fun, but it's hard to imagine something generating as much interest and as many comments as Captain, O My Captain. I got a lot of mileage from that one, with plenty of exasperation and research and expectations and anticipation.

On-site at a new facility's construction trailer, preparing to review the Network Room's layout, the WAN stub-ins through the concrete, physical security, fiber pulls, and rack installation. Treating the folks who benefit from a rock solid network to a night out. Remembering what life was like before the network sucked it…

Microsoft open sources 60,000 patents to benefit Linux? WHAT? OK, what do they want? What will MS get out of it? Call me jaded, suspicious, skeptical, or whatever. I'd LIKE to believe Microsoft has gotten some altruism into their blood, but I'm not likely to believe that, either.

If you don't find a way to do this that specifically meets your needs, think about whether there are ways to work around it. For example, If your main NPM poller is already set up for one NetPath to a specific destination, is there a way you can leverage NetPath on an Additional Polling Engine to follow a different path,…

I love #5: Choose Wisely. If you remember one of the Indiana Jones movies:

I enjoy the graphics on this month's challenge, Sam Spade and Lamont Cranston, look out! Perhaps only The Whistler can answer four weeks of AppStack Mystery questions! https://archive.org/details/The_Whistler_508_Episodes

@"yumdarling" , when I click on the graphic provided, a new popup window opens, but it's only white. It doesn't show the magnified image. Is this something being corrected? Or perhaps it's just in my environment? Rick Schroeder

All it takes is money and the right hardware.

I was speaking with a Cloud vendor about this topic yesterday. He mentioned he'd been involved in recovering a business with multiple sites that had been hit with ransomware. He promoted how the information in the Cloud wasn't compromised, and all that had to be done was reimage the computers and servers and point them…

I had this same problem--snmp queries were being dropped by my 6509's, resulting in an inability to use Switch Port Mapper from the Engineer's Toolset. Too many devices were incorrectly trying to learn data via snmp from the 6509's. I called TAC, they told me to identify the sources via a report that can be generated on…

It's been apparent that the States have been in love with G.B.'s constitutional monarchy for a long time. The fascination with royal weddings and heirs and gracious proper behavior (versus scandalous behavior) and the Queen's dedication to her role--all these are attractive to many of us here in the colonies. I look…

I've relied on a primitive/manual way of implementing this for my own use with an old version of Kiwi. I like the new solution's looks, and will give it a shot on a larger basis.

Certainly it appears the event was missing a DeathBot 2016 Challenge. Monitored, naturally, with Solarwinds' products. Seriously, if those engineers and designers had a team of Orion Experts monitoring internal robot warriors' vital signs and performing fast corrections and modifications on the fly, who knows which 'bot…

Alerting/Monitoring--getting the access to the right devices/flows/apps and then delivering the monitoring and alerts to the right teams--which may require breaking through those silos--is the task. And it's quite a challenge. It may be that all silo'd teams need to sit in an auditorium that has a 60-foot-wide projection…

That would have been fair! To which one might imagine the same thing being said about a SAN running spinning disc instead of SSD. Or it might be said about just about any SATA drive, depending on the momentum applied to its housing.

I remember a Safety Poster in the College metal shop. It showed a guy with a full Plexiglas face shield on a helmet, and the shield was down covering his face. He had on safety goggles over his eyes beneath the shield. And heavy duty safety glasses behind the goggles. While grinding a metal part, the part shattered and a…

I attended a Cisco Tech Day in Minneapolis last fall; one of the sessions was about this specific topic. Two of the other sessions I attended were based on the benefits of FirePOWER working with ISE and ACI. Cisco made a great presentation, and I came away fired up. I'm implementing FirePOWER now; the learning curve is…

RichardLetts​, your original request (above) said you have three things you're looking for, but only lists two of them. What's the third, please?