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What if a person is already ahead and trying to go further? Or perhaps trying to go sideways? Meaning... take their IT career path in a different direction. A title that has gained traction on LinkedIn over the past 5+ years or so to where it has become something official is, "Technology Evangelist." I have to imagine…

Seeing pictures like this breaks my heart. :-(

At my company I would definitely tighten the Security belt, specifically around my IT administrators. Today they have free reign across the enterprise with very little in regards to audit trails. Also, application owners are able to RDP directly to the servers for administration purposes. GASP! That concept is so foreign…

And think that practices like this occur in our government all of the time. The human side of security is wrought with peril. It's sticky, messy, nobody's favorite to deal with. My auditing background has a field day with scenarios like this. My blood pressure gets dialed up when I make recommendations and they are not…

1. "@#%&$%*!!!" "We'll do it live! WE'LL DO IT LIVE" - debugging in PRD (inspired by the classic Bill O'Reilly spaz out) 2. "If your only tool is a hammer then all your problems look like nails." (IT folks who try to solve all IT problems the same way) 3. "Houston! We have a problem!" (a classic, can be used in many…

Change is hard but Change can often lead to positive outcomes and so many new opportunities. Making a change after 28 years had to be scary. Kudos to you!!!

I am with you on this one.

Yes... we should care. Should we believe what Cisco is selling? That remains to be seen.

So this is Thanksgiving week. Is there an expectation that we complete all 5 days by Sunday night? That could be a tall order for some of us. Anyway you could release Thursday's and Friday's questions early.

Frankly, I am amazed that Yahoo! is still around... let alone be able to afford to pay another $30 million in fines. I swear, Yahoo! is indestructible.

Azure Network Watcher? Ahem! Where's SolarWinds? I don't trust the fox to watch the henhouse. The NSA is in my backyard down here in MD. Their antics are a ticking time-bomb against our liberty. Yet no one really cares...

Not really. Not without serious network overhead or significant capital investments. The technology that the "interweb" rides on is basically unchanged since the 60's and was never designed for security.

An Exultation of Geeks! (Yes, I'm sucking up)

Smart moves. But the message I wanted to convey in my article is that the Customer Revolution is more than just delivering exemplary customer service. Know the customer (to the point where you explain their pain in detail in times of failure), be empathetic, work and collaborate to solve their problems, and appreciate the…

Read the Fine Print - Parents, Deadpool is an R-rated movie with lots of graphic violence, seex, and profanity. It is not intended to be viewed by your kids! Ugh!!!

I would like to thank virtualization for allowing ourselves to be freed from the chains of hardware bondage. RAM chips (and the subsequent limitation of RAM slots), CPU's, drive bays, server fans! Let my IT admins go! Go... and give me excuses why they never patch their infrastructure! :-)

We could spend a full day breaking down APM and still not get halfway. I tweak my monitors to cover all the possibilities and I the durn app still finds a new way to surprise me. In all honesty I really need to delve into AppStack a bunch more and mold that into a productive deliverable for my Service Owners. I keep…

I am not sure if this was covered in another thread... but when I look at my Mission badges I see 10+ of these. Is this going to be cleaned up to be just 1?

Awesome! I am already playing with it!

I am trying to hone our process for major incidents to focus on the post mortem stage, especially the AAR. I am stressing the question, "Could monitoring have prevented this outage from occurring?" I don't think my service owners are liking my approach too much. From an Infrastructure perspective we are pretty set...

95 years... The man had a good run. God bless him, his family, and his legacy. 

The link to the "Directions" article is broken. Well, at least for me. I will keep trying later because I am very interested in that article. Interviewing is not my strongsuit and I recognize that I need improvement.

Not too soon after we setup on our VMware environment I created custom entries to document the: Business Function of the server. what Service/DR Tier, who the Server Owner is (aka, who gives permission to reboot it), whether it is non-PRD or PRD. Each week I have reports run on these fields and I look for omissions or any…

The same decisions we ask of a self-driving car we have to ask of ourselves. "It depends..." There are so much more to those questions that we pose that it is virtually impossible to program into. The heavy lifting is done ahead of that decision point to avoid it all costs.

LEM has been a wonderful tool for rooting out issues and underlying problems that always find their way to the surface. We have millions of failed logins a week sue to service accounts, old credentials on mobile devices sitting in desk drawers, etc. These superfluous failed accounts flood our logs and delay troubleshooting…

My SAM AppStack dashboards are FULL of red alerts, and I mean FULL. 90% are inconsequential, 8% are just outright 'false' alerts. For example: IIS is running slow on a mid-tier server. IIS shouldn't even be turned on let alone installed!!! I don't have the resources to chase all of these down and rectify. And my SNMP Traps…

Capability #3 is critical. What event(s) do you monitor and alert on? And what is the response level? Wireless AP's can generate a lot of logs throughout the day. So you want to be sure that you are looking for the right type of events.

I believe WABBOTT has left the building if Twitter is accurate.

I am in the process of implementing a Patch Mgmt strategy Ugh! I have now resorted to using a sledgehammer to implement it because the "Collaborative approach" will only lead to violent acts. My response to every excuse to why we shouldn't patch is, "Tough Toenails!" because everyone has an excuse. I do applaud Microsoft…