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Sure, things may become designed to make them cloud-agnostic. After all, any cloud vendor wants your dollars. Making their computers friendly to your needs seems to be the only way they'd get your business. As long as you can convince yourself someone else's computer is more secure than yours, and that you have confidence…
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Mobile Ransomeware: My company is spending loads on security, disabling OWA, removing access to private devices, and more--all in the hopes of improving our security posture and preventing things like ransomware. But until we can educate the sheep and remove the predators that prey upon them, there'll always be a user or…
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Doomsday scrolling. I hadn't heard it called that, but I've practiced it. When generations of people grow up with media outlets following the practice of "If it bleeds, it leads!", we're accustomed to seeing mostly bad news. It skews our impression of reality. Life really isn't as bad as the web sites, radio stations, TV…
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We went with Splunk, and once it's sized correctly and you know what you're doing, and the network properly reports syslog info to it, it's hard to imagine anything more powerful. I'm pro-Solarwinds in most things, but my network generates more syslogs per second than LEM can handle. But not more than Splunk can handle.
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I always appreciate these courses--even for products I don't own. It's an opportunity to get a foot in the door and bring a new solution to other teams.
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Building that sounds like it can provide more granular information. But it's a very large task, and could be extended to an almost absurd solution of creating a monitor and synthetic testing client for every device on the network. Hopefully that won't ever become necessary, but I can see where folks might wish for it.…
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Nicely done, sqlrockstar! I like the info, I like your conclusions, and I like your actions. Leading by example is the way to prove you're serious.
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Well . . . If you manage ACI, there's a pretty good set of differences between APIC Tenant and an EPG (End-point Group) and an Application Profile. But they ARE tied together (or can be, depending on your environment). A Tenant is never a Spine or a Leaf, but it can be dependant on them. ACI has its own world of jargon and…
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100% with you on the data bill of rights. I want my data to be mine, not "mined". But a bill making such a rule into a law must have teeth and the ability to inspect and verify that the data remains private. And it must have consequences so dire as to make following the rule vastly more affordable than breaking the rule.
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Google Breaking Their Word: It's one thing to say your corporate motto is "Don't Be Evil." It's quite another to play fast & loose with the definition of "evil." I'd say breaking your word is dishonorable, and Google said they weren't tracking. But they WERE tracking. This also seems immoral, bad, and examples of…
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At a place where I used to work, a former I.T. Director regularly woke the on-call Network Analyst up at 2 a.m. any night of the week to complain about slowness to his home's remote connection to work. This was back in the days of T1's, and this Director discovered his recreational use of his dedicated T1 (provided by our…
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I really liked the article about GoogleMaps Street View cars capturing air quality samples, which can be used to reveal and combat climate change and pollution sources. It's wonderful that not every article one reads is doom and gloom!
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"Not me Von!" From A Clockwork Orange, where government officials are "conditioning" a serial criminal to become physically ill when he envisions acting on his antisocial impulses. He's being shown adult material and brainwashed to be repulsed by it instead of stimulated, and the music being playing in the background…
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Back in the late '80's and early '90's, when future-thinking groups tasked DARPA with creating a reliable firewall for government and business needs, the team created a firewall with automated strike back mechanisms that could be quickly and easily enabled--even automatically--to identify, report, and target network and…
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Unfortunately, pets haven't been part of my life for nearly twenty years--coinciding to when we had children. You may be entertained by the idea--I was against having children. I was the baby in my own family, and a late-bloomer in that my father was 47 when I was born. They didn't expect another child after my two sisters…
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Quantum Computing? Just what we need for streaming Netflix VR and capturing our lives in 3D for uploading to social media! SQL Dynamics? Another case for "Just say 'no'." Sacrificing Privacy For Security? Just for argument's sake, imagine regretting NOT doing this . . . Hiding Bad Links (or CODE!) In Long URL's--and…
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Re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-bump.
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I haven't made these, but I'd like to try a bite or two of one! At least they're small.
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I'll buy you a beer if you wear all of those to all of your next trade shows. But it didn't happen if there are no pictures! And we'll expect stories of how the trade show security (or you) handled going through all those lanyards & ID badges. ;^)
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It's challenging to answer questions about the speed of an unladen African Swallow . . . when no one's defined which African swallow is referenced. Wikipedia references twenty-three different species of Swallows native to Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_swallow Perhaps one may best be prepared to say "I don't…
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Fun sites at those links, impressive knowledge, good communications. And MENSA to boot!
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I'm for Amazon reducing labor as long as they retrain those laborers to be useful and more productive in other jobs. Simply letting people go because they've been obsoleted by automation is not the solution for awesome P.R. and happy people and customers. I worked for a company back in the 1980's that had a policy about…
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It seems that Tetration (from Cisco) will be part of what is prerequisite to implementing SDN correctly in a secure manner in a sensitive environment. Ka-CHING!
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Some of my personal IT stories that I enjoyed creating for Thwack members are linked below: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-187367 https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-188258 https://thwack.solarwinds.com/polls/2428#start=50 Scroll down through the comments on this poll for a humorous tease about Thwack being down…
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Done, but I knew I should have checked the page earlier in the day. I may be out of the running for the Amazon card by being too late to the page, but it's still good to have you at Solarwinds get the info you need.
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Using cell phone location information to identify likely suspects? Will we simply be teaching folks to leave their cell phones at home before they go perform activities that are contrary to societal goals?
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I like the activity going on. Once the big cities have their days in the sun I'm looking forward to the Midwest (Minneapolis) to be a player in this game.
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Imagine developing a computer or an operating system with too many cooks in the kitchen, each using their own favorite tools--none of which are standard, and most of which aren't interchangeable, nor are they compatible with each other. All with profit or recognition as their sole goals. What will you get? DOS. Windows For…
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Humpday bump. This is still a great idea.
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Thanks for working to improve the situation for us contracted Support users!
