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Perhaps the best backup support experience I've ever had was back in the 1990's when I was first exposed to a small HP DAT cartridge array. I purchased it to back up a firewall on a daily basis, and it would automatically rotate through a small number (6? 8?) of DAT tapes, and it worked well. Until the day it didn't.…
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I appreciate the flexibility and speed of server building and restoration that VM has provided, and I've grown accustomed to it working well. But early impressions were poor compared to the old-style stand-alone dedicated server hardware for a given app. Perhaps it was that our VM admins didn't fully understand the…
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Nope. They're not in the Thwack Store. But it IS an interesting idea. If only the airlines would submit products to be sold there . . .
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Very cool! I wasn't aware of the MS MVP program. I expect it represents a MUCH greater value and recognition than all the "paper" MCSEs that showed up fifteen years ago. I'm glad!
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It's true that Change Control--on all parties' sides--can seriously improve up time. And Six 9's might be achievable if everyone agrees that it can't be an absolute measurement of all down time. Instead, everyone must agree that service lost due to planned / scheduled maintenance isn't counted against the Six 9's. I'll…
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Obsolete robots? Happens all the time in industry. If you haven't read "The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov (don't watch the movie--it's not even a remote reflection of the quality of story in the book, IMHO), you've missed some serious thinking about robots and ethics. And you've missed a story that can bring a tear to…
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We've moved to ACI, where every data center port is its own firewall, and all flows & policies are defined and tracked. It's a BIG job, and I respect those experts who can design and implement it correctly. That's one aspect, and ISE on all wired & wireless devices is another project we've nearly completed. It may be that…
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Insider threats have always been present in any venture; they're nothing new. They're why things like NAC and network taps (e.g.: Gigamon) and firewalls and TACACS were developed. To have protection from anyone doing anything without permission inside your network. They don't have to be out on the internet. Preventing…
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I didn't see anyone reference Roomba's news over the last two weeks. The headline seems sensational. Roomba's CEO denies any evil intent. Which apparently isn't the same thing as seeking to make profit selling the floor plans of the inside of your home. Roomba plans to sell maps of users' homes
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A few more to strike from 2019: * Unfunded mandates * Ignorance. Mine, yours, our governments, other countries, religions, etc. * Intolerance. (Oops--I'm pretty intolerant of many things, including the item above "Ignorance". Oh well.) * Addictive materials / behaviors that negatively impact health. Sure, even the ones I'm…
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I'm optimistic about IBM's Quantum Computing, but realistic, too. Show us practical ways it'll improve our lives, save us money, prevent mistakes, etc. That's all we ask.
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I'd love understand the risk / likelihood of someone defeating lower securities than SHA 512. In my environment, where we don't allow Write permissions to Solarwinds, it seems all someone could do is request statistics from any snmp-device. I'd still support SHA512 as a feature request, though!
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Nicely done! Thank you.
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That Lucador mask is a short-cut to Security being dispatched to your location, if you showed up with it in many places I've worked and/or visited.
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When Apple replaces 11 million batteries, one wonders what happens to the old ones. Fully recycled? Partially recycled? Buried in some landfill to leak toxic chemicals that will each into water & soil & air? This isn't just on Apple, though. For all the many millions of cell phones, PC's, printers, Access Points, switches,…
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Yep, GTM was the obvious answer to me--even more so as I was a Head Geek tester/reviewer for the new F5 GTM interfaces. Naturally I used those experiences to recognize the solution, and provide that incorrect answer. Upon later review I eventually determined what I think may have been the desired answer. But it wasn't…
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I've seen that, too--increasing risk to save money. Sometimes there just isn't money to do the job right. In which case one must get more money, or change the cost, or accept the risk and be prepared for the fall-out when the event actually occurs. I sympathize with those folks. It's a gamble, and rolling the dice to say…
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If you ever visit Duluth, Minnesota, looking for barbecued wonderfulness, consider this venue: OMC Smokehouse "Oink, Moo, Cluck" is what "OMC" stands for, and the food there has pleased us every time we've visited. The pictures might say it all, even though this link seems to say it goes to another kind of web page…
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I see a Solarwinds solution for all but one of the listed "Must-do's". Does Solarwinds have a way to develop, record, and track optimization plans?
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The UX process is much different than a place to post ideas and feature requests. When SolarWinds reaches out to people for a User Experience, it takes about an hour for them to give you access to a new demo environment for which they want feedback from experienced users. They step a person through the views, the person is…
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The electric scooter impounding controversies. It sounds like the problem is folks wanting profit without hassle or paperwork or licensing--until they discover that getting all those bits of offication on their side may help them in the long run. It's not ideal when people don't put away their things. It's not that…
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Wow. Who knew?
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Hopefully you'll find that, until Solarwinds provides a "Save as PDF" option, using Chrome's Print to PDF format actually does save the view in relevant form--IF you select the necessary options to make it work well for you. Give this a try: 1. Open NetPath in Chrome, open a view, and choose Print. 2. Select Destination >…
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I'm happy to my abacus with anyone. As long as I'm not using it, you can use it!
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When you wrote about O365: "how do you measure your organization's health?" My immediate recollection was "If you want to know how well O365 is working in the cloud, just listen to the users grumbling about slowness, and watch the Help Desk ticket counts climb". (For what it's worth, don't be afraid to use a larger font…
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NPM recently did a lovely story about My Space's lost files. I recommend it. MySpace Says It Lost Years Of User-Uploaded Music : NPR
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Back in the day, DARPA designed firewalls that had true "strike-back" capabilities. They eventually spun them off into Secure Computing, which called the firewalls "Sidewinders". When the military used them, their version could respond to probes with a wide variety of passive or active rules, including sending a very rapid…
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This post made me think--and react to its content. A top IT leader once advised me "Don't add new technologies or systems until what you have in place is fixed and running without errors. Once you have your current systems running smoothly, only then can you afford to add more tasks, hardware, technologies, etc. to your…
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Hopefully NOT a Carrington Event. One of those will (not may) take out the cloud entirely. Expect "a certain amount of delay or discomfort" to arise from such an event.
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You learned about the Placebo Effect. http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=31481 Showing her you were adjusting the screw, and explaining it would impact keyboard functionality positively, gave her the mental expectation of a positive change. Your boss's instructions were a little more intuitive to the…
