tinmann0715 · Disaster Recovery Manager · ✭✭✭✭✭

Something is afoot.

I wonder how Solo would have fared before the release of Episode VII?

Apparently there is an RCA Facilitator role. I guess that is what I do. Interesting article from that perspective. https://www.cothink.nl/actueel/publicaties/7-habits-to-ruin-your-root-cause-analysis-and-how-to-avoid-them/

"The Network will be hacked..." UPDATE! Your network is probably being hacked right now and you don't even know it. Some lowly server out on the periphery with an open port is being used as a bot unbeknownst to anyone. We've found that out twice here at my company..

To make it official...

Eating pigeon? Wrap it in bacon and we'll never care! As for the additional $3 to pay Starbucks to make it correctly? That will be on top of the additional $18.99 for them to make it quickly per the Net Neutrality rates? Else we have to wait 18 minutes longer (think Burger King commercial). And the US Senate going after…

My company was one of the first 7 SAP customers to implement HANA. And it damn near killed all of us. I equated it to the Oregon Trail. We blazed a trail, lost many good people on the way, to forge that path. And now people travel coast to coast in 5 hours and complain about the trip. I am done with anything"Innovation"…

I've been saying something similar all month. I started off by first referencing the Butterfly Effect. And then after that I challenged the notion of giving our younger selves spoilers of what to expect. Life is about the journey, the experiences of the up's & down's and how they can sometimes be the same (re: my Jake…

I was rooting for Nessie. So far she is in 2nd place. :-( Looks like dragon will run, or fly, away with it.

March bump!

I see PerfStack as a gamechanger, much like AppStack. These two move the Orion platform away from individual node monitoring to full service UX and APM-type monitoring. WTG. Putting all the components into one screen is what is needed.

The medical world is wrought with "additional details". The wine & spirits business is not. So I am free of those constraints. But I think we can all appreciate the necessity of those "additional details" as they can save lives. Audits are an absolute necessity in the medical world as it is in the financial world.

I look forward to this new SNPM feature! :-)

Padlock sites. I could be having a conversation with someone? Could it be? Could it...

Our Achilles Heel right now is that we kept on building upon, and adding to, a single CIsco 6509 switch as our main datacenter switch. So now when we are ready to re-architect our LAN we are faced with all sorts of issues, including the physical cabling issue of the mistake of racking the switch in the same rack as the…

EOW BUMP!

I studied and researched this question hard. In the end I went against my better judgement and I got it right. While investigating I found this link: https://www.solarwinds.com/topics/active-directory-reporting The information in this link, in the end, was not pertinent. Good luck to everyone. I wish I could give everyone…

Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too? (Sorry! Couldn't resist...)

Is that today?? I forgot to run down in my jammies to see what presents the IT Fairy left under my 486DX2 66 MHz for me!!! I am so excited!!! :-)

Agreed. The idealist realm of automation is filled with stories like this because automation is not a "Set It! And Forget It!" technology. It still requires eyes upon it and consideration when technology, the business, or process changes. Far too often automation is not considered when one of these three are changed and it…

I predicted a lot of these right so I am feeling good going into rd 2.

Read! Read! Read! Stay abreast of the latest trends. It helps to read the Thwack blogs because these guys, through necessity, are staying on top of the latest trends too.

Question #1: Whenever I see the joke answers for some of these questions sometimes I really, really, really get my hopes up that it can be true. :-(

I just found this post because others posted to it. I used to be a contractor to the Feds in the late 1990's on a project to help prepare for Y2K. The amount of $$$ I saw them piss way... it was soul crushing. I learned later on is that all of the departments work with a budget. If they don't spend their budget they lose…

Over all my years I have won twice and I have given the gifts back. It's just an honor to be considered. Free yourself of material possessions and seek the wisdom of knowledge.

Nice article. A nice cookbook when planning for a monitoring solution for large-scale networks.

21 billion nodes by 2020? By Gawrsh that's a lot. I sure hope we can all agree to a secure standard before then or IOT will be the wild, wild, west. The bad guys have to be salivating over these possibilities.

Now that the FCC has done what's its done I have decided to switch to the "wait and see" mode. Granted, I wasn't a fan of the decision. But I was never a fan of the current home consumer model either. If the oversized Reeses coffe cup is right then I should have more choice. I hope so... The issues in the Atlanta airport…

Ya know... it's not so much a conspiracy if they are all true... think about it.

Once again, these yearly brackets end up being an exercise in reminding myself as to how old I am.