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One can also draw the comparison between kobolds and IT staff. Cannon fodder... :-) Overconfidence was sunk by an iceberg 100 years ago.

Congrats! Congrats!

Learn coding? Bah! Viva la Infrastructure!! Seriously though. I can't code. I mean it. I.Cannot.Code! I've tried. My brain just isn't wired that way. I'll end up sweeping floors before I'll be a successful coder.

I still see control, or lack thereof, as a strong driving factor for not relinquishing to The Cloud. I worked for a top tier Managed Services provider for 10 years. We were good! And we did "it" better, when you consider from a facility on up, than just about all of our clients. Yet when things went bump in the night it…

I saw a headline (but wasn't able to read the article) where road scientists were exploring automating traffic direction during traffic jams. How cool would that be!?!? No longer will my wife *AHEM!* ... drivers go 15 mph when traffic is moving at 35. WooHoo! So about this picture... I've watch enough Solarwinds Labs.…

I used to work with a bunch of Brilliant Jerks. But there were only a few who were truly toxic. The survival skill I learned (quickly) was to feed their ego, but not too much or they'll know that you are patronizing them and then they'll turn on you. Also, food! They love food. :-)

Leon, I am kicking myself that I was not able to attend. I talked to others who went and they said it was a good event. I tried to convince them to walk up and say hi for me but none would abide. Hopefully I'll squeeze in the next time.

I get jonses'd for outsourcing when I have specific tasks required of my support teams and I have a precise vision of how I want it done. In these situations with my internal teams I usually have to deal with a wide array of excuses of why, "...it can't be done that way." (usually those excuses are bunk) I have a trusted…

A key component of many enterprise services support model is an online community. Take Thwack for example. I am also a member of another huge community, ASUG (Americas' SAP Users' Group). Vendors endorse these communities and leverage them for feedback, R&D, product development, etc. Try to maintain your services in a…

We are in the process of tiering our storage and organizing it. Over 50% of our data is considered non-PRD and it is everywhere. Much of this non-PRD data is non-essential and can be stored on cheaper slower disks. Furthermore, much of our data is stagnant. So we don't need write-intensive storage as bad as we do for…

Silos are naturally forming and are usually inevitable when the Roles & Responsibilities are dished out. Every so often these silos are destroyed and then reformed after the inevitable reorg. You know... the reorg to. "...take advantage of obvious efficiencies." I say, "Embrace the silos!" Monitoring should have its own…

NetPath to the rescue!!!

Oracle ruined... <fill_in_blank>

As a manager I have made delegating easy for myself. I have no admin rights (except for Solarwinds). I can't do "it" so I have to get someone else to do it. My value as a manager belongs elsewhere anyway.

I remember the old days when HAM radio was the only way to reliably keep in touch with my family over the pond and down under. :-)

Great Mission! Great Year! Thanks everyone! Looking forward to more zaniness in 2018!

We have continued to improve technology so that the nextgen can continue to push the envelope. Technology is never to stand still. I remember setting dip switches on serial cards and internal modems. You know who doesn't care about hearing about that? Millennials! And they are right to do so! Here is another analogy... My…

"It really is God!"

"The more things change the more they stay the same!" I gave the same critique regarding the discussion topics for the "State of IT" session during this year's ThwackCamp. When you break it down the concerns are all fundamental and have been consistent since I've been in IT from the early 90's: Capacity, Computing Power,…

Prince Phillip, The Duke of Edinburgh was a Doctor? Wow! ;-)

Thanks! I "knew" the answer but the wording of the question was twisting my simple little brain. I eventually got it right. Woo Hoo!

Tuesday sliiiiiiiiiiiide & BUMP!!!

I have my favorite brands too. SolarWinds is one of them as a matter of fact. But I am GenX. Later generations are showing less brand loyalty and less patience with brands. Customers want they want and the logo isn't as important anymore.

I have surprised myself that I have been able to stay with this for so long. I thought I would have run out of gas by now. This month has flown by.

First and foremost, what I wouldn't give to take a selfie with Rob Boss. Great pic!!! <boop> As for the "DevOps and the Infrastructure Dumpster Fire" article. OMG! what a thing of beauty! The more things change the more they stay the same. Capacity, monitoring, resources, training, availability remain the constants. Gussy…

Reporting! Reporting! Reporting! The production of the evidence on your current level of security compliance maturity. Not enough do it. Many groups are paranoid to the fact that revealing such data is detrimental to their mission and/or their job security.

Honestly, you have to grind it out. Pinch the points wherever you can. Volunteer wherever you can. Participate in as many Release Candidate campaigns (3,000 pts). Vote in all of the polls and vote on ideas every so often. Always, and I mean, always comment on blog posts (that's an easy 50 pts a post!). Peruse your Missions…

Before we can move certain workloads to the cloud we need a to know our environment from top to bottom. There is no environment where nothing goes wrong, but environments where monitoring, alerting, remediation and troubleshooting is done at every level of the infrastructure and where money is invested to keep a healthy…

That slimy move by the Intel CEO didn't even raise an eyebrow by me. It has become par for the course. What I did find humorous was that a few days before I heard about his stock dump this showed up in my mailbox. Forbes 100 Top Corporate Citizens And guess who was on its cover???

Hi... when should we expect to see our 250 pts. for our survey submission?