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I'm waiting for my invite to Austin!!!
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I work for one of the largest wine & spirits distributors in the US. We contracted with a SAP vendor to develop a Mobility app for our sales reps. We just moved from on-prem to the Cloud in January. Over 3,000 sales reps frozen on the 2nd last day of the month. Brutal!
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The simple response to the NFL "Blackout" dilemma was that the franchises did not want TV to discourage fans from attending the games. Having fans in seats, preferably with season ticket plans, was a primary revenue source. The NFL recognized the impact of TV on the consumption of its product. As for the…
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Which beach? You reading the reports that they are finding more and more sharks up and down the east coast? Exciting! As my scottish father used to say... "Have a wee dip in the briney for me!"
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GOAT can be an interesting title. There's nowhere to go but down when you are the GOAT... Are you to be the GOAT in a technology? Or are you to be the GOAT in being reliable and "getting things done?" Each come with their fair share of drawbacks. Heavy is the head that wears the crown!
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Specific to your statement, "The other is a willing abdication of responsibility to know." To me that is a dangerous statement. I'm sure that didn't intend for it to convey the, "Darn kids today don't know how easy they have it today", message but it can be misconstrued as such. Today's IT workforce aren't faced with the…
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I love this information, extremely useful for a self-admitted non-DBA. But could I trouble you for a future blog on some DON'T's? Because I gotta tell ya.. I worry sometimes I'm doing stupid stuff but I don't know.
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Before I voted I put my ballcap on backwards, grabbed my fingerless gloves, and started typing away furiously at my keyboard as random CLI's started appearing nonsensically on my screen without ever touching a mouse or ever appearing to touching a cmd-ctrl key. 3.86 seconds later I exclaimed, "DONE!"
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sqlrockstar in regards to the flavored e-cigs, which I do not partake, and their choice in flavors. It is not without precedent? Have you taken a look at flavored vodkas these days? Birthday Cake Vodka (The joys of working in a wine & spirits industry. You get to see all the fun stuff being pushed out...)
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Great question. My IT techy heyday was during these languages. What happened?
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Another mountain we are trying to climb... yet we can't convince the owners of the wireless networks in my company to segment networks. "Too much overhead." "Higher priorities."
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I think a key point to this article, and this really isn't new, is that there are multiple parties involved. Usually in the form of vendors. So when things go bump in the night and you as the customer aren't sure where the problem lies then it is on you to pin the right one down and hold them responsible for fixing.
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When I took over monitoring I was in the unique position of defining our SLO's. Prior to me it did not exist. The user community defined our current levels, application availability, and overall UX. I had a hard time selling my proposed SLO's because my execs didn't want to commit without fully understanding the level of…
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Nah! At this point I usually go outside and yell at traffic. It seems to have the same effect. ;-)
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Huzzah! Huzzah! An impressive list!
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Life is fleeting. We all live, love, and, sadly, lost. I did not know Lawrence Garvin personally but I watched him many times. He seemed like a very pleasant man and someone I would have like to have known. I feel for his family and his friends. The world could use more Garvin's. My condolences to the Solarwinds family.
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For Northrop Gruman, it's not a situation of "can't", it's a decision to not prioritize. Their employee's privacy pays the price. Ten lbs. of nutmetg? Exactly how much egg nog do you need to buy to use that much nutmeg? Mmmm.... Fascinating article on the cyber-spying of each other. This is where Cold War II is being…
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I remember discussing this topic on Thwack a few years ago. My goal in my approach to managing personnel is to maximize efficiency. One of the drawbacks to this approach is that sometimes I get too involved. Other approaches have it that the associate is obligated to improve efficiencies. My belief is that sometimes you…
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Good point. So putting the term, "Ethical" in front of hacker is a... double positive redundancy?!? Is it not?
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The single pane of glass approach is the wave of the future. Many IT processes can be condensed and streamlined following this approach. I am championing it at my company with SolarWinds as the pane of choice. But there are still umpteen windows to condense into it..
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I have a standing rule that every device have syslog messages, and SNMP Traps, sent to our NPM (I haven't been funded for a SIEM yet). Don't worry, very few of our techs follow it. Just about everything, from the hardware to the application, has the capability to generate messages. And just about each device generates…
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Good gugamuga that's a lot of TV watching there! I didn't see the Best/Worst Reality mini-series on your list: the 2020 election (NOT making a political statement!) We all burned hours watching that one. lol My only recommendation for that event was how fascinated I was with John King's "Magic Wall" and his use of data and…
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jgherbert where do you stand on Service accounts? I monitor failed logins on the domain and weekly I have accounts tied to Services that fail 100k times. And then some poor tech has to spend upwards to an hour to pinpoint the exact service on a server to reset a password or something. We are really chasing ourselves with…
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Thursday bump!
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I am currently wrestling with a EUE project for monitoring the multiple steps in our DSS reports that includes Citrix, Spreadsheet Server and MDX. I have learned that NPM/SAM is not there yet with monitoring the Citrix experience. We are implementing A LOT of PS tog et us over the hump. In our situation we know absolutely…
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It was a great session and it was very well done... something I've come to expect from Solarwinds. But what I now want is the entire 6-hour session, from-end-to-end, available online. All that is available now are the three sessions, and not live discussions in between.
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One of our struggles is that how the business changes its expectations from what was captured in the Recovery Plan, and coming up with different requirements for different datasets (Most notably, customized retention periods). Testing... for not-so-proud reasons, we are good to go there.
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Is this a repost? This reads oddly familiar from a few months ago. Anyway... Mobility and "Cloud" have marked the end of a generation of It, traditional Client/Server. Big data is what decision-makers want so that they can anticipate "trends" and try to be ahead of the curve. The physical limitations of traditional…
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"Love what you do and you never work a day in your life!" Looking at these pictures and rarely do these words ever ring more true. Or, to be more accurate, all of those hours grueling away is worth it for events like these. The smiles are real when they are there before the camera is even raised. As said a 1,000 times…
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I double what rschroeder and superfly99 say. Not the easiest read. Regardless... I am dealing with the 1-off's now: UPS, generators, time clocks, warehouse printers, conveyor belts, and others.
