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Thanks for this! No, seriously! You pointed out all the things we are not doing today at my company. I see a loooot of sleepless nights in my future.

Yea... us too. About 100 or so. Apparently we are terrible at what we do. :-)

I am curious to hear what manual tasks people, who are not in the Managed Services space, have taken the time and effort to automate in their virtual datacenters. More so, I am really interested in automation that is not focused on Incident response.

Soooo.... I am sitting here with LEM, NCM & NTA all halfway, or less, rolled out because of lack of resources and commitment. I read stuff like this and chills race up and down my spine. Thanks for that... <sigh!>

No mention of your Patriots? You must be getting bored of this too. I keep changing and updating my passwords to keep up with the latest "major hack" its just not any fun anymore. Wish someone would do something about it.

Interesting article. My company hasn't seen the light on Configuration Mgmt yet. I am leading them with Solarwinds, at least at the infrastructure level. Recently I have been giving the VP of Technology headaches with reports on AD/DNS setup inconsistencies. Also, reports on the lack of anti-virus installations in newer…

Being such a fan of Mad Men years ago I found it fascinating as to how advertising manipulates emotions. So the Netflix bit was especially interesting.

I was very disappointed to hear about the British Airways network outages. In my younger days I was blessed with the opportunity to travel the world. My favorite airlines were: British Airways, Singapore airlines, and QANTAS (something about seeing the giant 'roo on the tailfin scream led "Adventure Awaits!" to me. British…

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We are in a similar boat. For that I have stressed standardization, consistency, and consideration for DR beginning at the early stages. I often ask the challenge question: "How will that work in DR?" during project kick-off's and such. I am not claiming this to be 100% ironclad... but it keeps the DR conversation going…

My simple recommendation: Never allow yourself to be identified as the "Legacy IT Pro." That will be your death knell. On your LinkedIn profile and your CV never list any job or any technology prior to Y2K either. Keep yourself fresh and fool prospects in thinking you are younger than what you are. Keep reading, keep…

Oh adatole ! "Fortune favors the bold!" :-) Many of these examples have taken on a different meaning over their existence and they have lost their teeth, for lack of better words, through overuse and misuse. For example, "Perception is reality" is intended to be used in a specific context, not broadly, from a position of…

I just wanted to pass along my kudos to the Solarwinds team who was responsible for pick the prizes this month. They are awesome, Awesome, AWESOME!!!

Many IT shops are learning to swim in the fast-paced currents of IoT. IoT and traditional network IT co-mingling is in its infancy. Management and control of all the nodes is nothing short of an administrative nightmare right now. How to protect them? How to manage their lifecycle? Is IoT a service? So many questions…

Interesting article about "Make America Great..." It teeters on the precipice of being political. However, I will add some notes: DOJ and DHHS reports state that this is the safest time in human history to be alive in regards to crime and disease. Another polarizing point: We live in the Information Age. The internet has…

File sharing in general is a giant PITA. We block access to file sharing sites but our users still email files to personal accounts, copy files all over the place, Copy & Paste, and even copy it to USB drives. The reality is that if a user wants to copy data the user will copy data. We mitigate the best that we can.

I missed the part about writing responses that day to collect the 150 Thwack pts. I will need to be more timely with my responses. That being said... So far I have been extremely impressed with the submissions. We have some talented folks here. This begs the question: Why aren't more Thwacksters writing blog articles?…

Bump it! It's your civic duty!

Where is the greatest reluctance change to automation in my organization is the false sense of security that develops on top of this automated process, the poor, or lack thereof, documentation, and when some upstream/downstream dependency changes (and my company is constantly making changes in IT) without the Service owner…

I was in a vendor presentation last week and the presenter pulled up a dashboard for the appliance. It was quite vivid with all the contrasting colors representing different services, performance, and alerts. And then a co-worker at the end of the table chimed in. It all looks gray to me. I'm color blind. That is one way…

Interesting. A couple of years ago I sent my really talented technical architect to public speaking classes. He too was struggling with communicating to execs and non-IT the technical matters in a concise manner. Fortunately for me he was open to it so he dove into it. He now does presentations at conferences and SUG…

Today's question is TOUGH! It will be reflected in my EOM survey.

Absolutely brilliant!

The keylogger article really makes me want to throw my laptop into a lake. I am so fed up with hackers being ahead of the good guys. Also, it appears that you and Tom Hanks have something in common. A fondness for ridiculously small cars.

I am in year 5 of a 3-year project to consolidate dashboards into SolarWinds. Take all the KPI's that we care about from the firewall, load balancers, tape backups, UPS'es, generators, etc. and create custom views in SolarWinds and then create our own custom dashboards. That way our IT teams and executives are all looking…

IS it the biggest? Well, that's debatable. Is it one of the scariest/nastiest? Yea, I think so. Ransomware violates not just the PC, but also the person.

Already booked on my calendar and have scheduled time to be locked up in the Man Cave for it.

It depends. I have a lengthy IT background and I am in the IT department with IT responsibilities. SO I am very much in tune with the goings on's and so forth. I can be involved with the day-to-day and still be an auditor. I believe this helps me be effective. I can see if the BCP was on the outside trying to implement a…

Wednesday Bump!

Oh... and the Thwack admins!!! :-)