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"BCP: Just a bunch of little DR plans!" Not sure how I agree with this. BCP is more than IT. It's a company-wide preparedness strategy that covers more than just technical. Staffing, communication, public relations, operations & facilities, and so much more. While IT plays a major role in DR/BCP, your non-IT business units…
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Yea... well that just puts things into perspective, now don't it? I believe we all have similar stories of people from earlier generations who have inspired us. At least I know I have. My hope is that years from now my kids look upon me lwith admiration like I look upon my parents.
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TRANSLATION: "Tell them what they need to know. Not what they want to know." I'm a manager. And sometimes I am okay with that...
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You mean that you don't have a Kanban board in your kitchen? *gasp*
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DONE! DONE!
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I can't find the meme of the pigs in the barn loving that the room & board are free with the saying, "If you aren't being charged then you are the product not the customer." The same applies to "free" DNS.
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Thursday Bump!
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I remember way back in the day when Visio was its own program and not part of any Office suite. And network diagrams were treated as any other types of documentation. As soon as it was put to paper it was obsolete. And as ecklerwr1 so eloquently stated... mapping is more of an artform than a science.
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Huzzah! Huzzah! The lucky ones. Take plenty of pictures and copious notes. We want to hear all about it.
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I've been involved in monitoring websites, transaction monitoring, end-user experience for over 16 years now. I am fully convinced that the easiest, best, cheapest way to do it at this point is to hire someone to sit in Antarctica all day long and browse the websites and then let us know if something "seems slow". I have…
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And to pile on to this great Idea...
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Too many great sessions! Not. Enough. Time!!! ARGHHHHH!!!!!!
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MIT is doing what??? Have we as a race not learn our lesson from Twitter & FB? We started expressing our inner thoughts on these two mediums and at times it has been catastrophic. To vocalise our most inner thoughts will lead to an apocalypse. Let alone the invasion of privacy.
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The weekly reports. We do a similar report here in my office. It's due every Friday before noon, "The Top 3." I tell my team that if it takes you more than 15 minutes to compile it is taking you too long. The 1993 server reminds me of the old adage: "Don't upgrade just for the sake of upgrading." If there is a legitimate…
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An argument I've heard, and that I am beginning to understand, against automating infrastructure tasks is the "automatic windows" case. For those of you who are old enough to remember when cars had hand crank windows then you remember how you had total control of how fast, how slow, and exactly where you wanted your window…
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Someone else wrote something similar earlier, but this is becoming the modern-day equivalent of being able to easily download unauthorized software from the internet and install it. It was a while before controls and security caught up to that. Controls and security need to hurry up and catch up to the accessibility of the…
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Any chance I can get a freebie for today's question. I fat-fingered my answer. :-(
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Folks! I am excited to pitch in anyway that I can. :-) I have always been known as a team player.
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Excellent stuff. I knew very little about deadlocks. This blog post carried me far along. I'm no DBA but I monitor DB's. Often times I have to convince the DBA's to check for deadlocks when troubleshooting app problems. Now I am empowered to check myself.
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mikesky Notice the status?
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Hey! I'm back everyone. Sorry for the absence. Still learning my way around the new place. Lots have changed... Weird times...
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Preaching to the choir!!! Kudos all around and congratulations on a great product!
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"The moment you write it down it becomes obsolete!" This is why I rely on Solarwinds Network Atlas for my documentation now. I gave up trying to keep my documentation up-to-date.
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FIRST!!
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The best part is always the journey, not the destination. ;-) But it's still cool to be the best.
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I am a frim believer that the Feds should adopt a traditional IT model and appoint a CIO/CTO to lead the way instead of each branch, and subsequent departments, have their own budgets and ideas. Too much redundancy. Too much waste. Collectively the Feds have enough to power their own needs with a Private Cloud, or…
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4 years? Wow! Time flies when you're having fun! I can't imagine you as not a Head Geek. Reading this reminds me that I've been on Thwack for 7... wowza! Where does the time go?
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Same for me. 50 pts for comments though.
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I use 4 "What if's..." during my audit interviews as a BCP and monitoring professional. Rarely do I ever make it to the 4th time asking. The questioning usually stops after the 2nd. And on some occurrences my questions would hit a nerve making for some uncomfortable sessions. I will ask my 7 and 11 year old tonight what…
