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Master of Your Virtual IT Universe: Trust but Verify at Any Scale - Reporting
A Never Ending IT Journey around Optimizing, Automating and Reporting on Your Virtual Data CenterReportingIT reporting at its best is pure art backed by pure science and logic. It is storytelling with...
View ArticleProduct Upgrade Resources
We've spent a lot of time understanding challenges with the upgrade process. While we are working to improve the upgrade process in our products, we are also providing better guidance with our Upgrade...
View ArticleIT Trends for 2016 Part2 – Serverless Computing/MicroServices
Today’s posting steps out of my core skills a bit. I’ve always been an infrastructure guy. I build systems. I help my customers with storage, infrastructure, networking, and all sorts of solutions to...
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Mission Accomplished October 2016: Destination Automation
Aloha THWACKsters! Welcome back from Destination Automation! We hope the past month's mission helped you get to a better place with your server & application monitoring. Learn more about...
View ArticleLet Us All Give Thanks…To Our IT Infrastructure!
Family and friend togetherness, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and gorging on a usually socially unacceptable amount of food. Ah, yes, Thanksgiving Day is almost here. But of all the Thanksgiving...
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Test Your Compliance IQ – Answers Revealed
Compliance, as it applies to IT departments, involves following rules and regulations that are meant to protect sensitive data of all types. It can govern everything from IT decision-making and...
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SRM 6.4 Beta 1 Is Available!
We have been working hard to bring another bulk of enhancements to the Storage Resource Monitor (SRM).SRM 6.4 Beta 1 is available and it contains some of the enhancements listed in the following post:...
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SRM 6.4 Beta 1 Is Available!
We have been working hard to bring another bulk of enhancements to the Storage Resource Monitor (SRM).SRM 6.4 Beta 1 is available and it contains some of the enhancements listed in the following post:...
View ArticleGearing up for a security audit
It is a good time to remember that improving agency IT security should be yearlong endeavor. Before gearing up to move forward with implementing new fiscal year 2017 IT initiatives, it is a best...
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The Actuator - November 2nd
Home for a week after the PASS Summit before heading back out to Seattle on Sunday for the Microsoft MVP Summit. It's the one week a year where I get to attend an event as an attendee and not working a...
View ArticleBack to basics to have a successful upgrade
As the 2016 year is coming to the end, I've looked back and wow it has been the year of the upgrades for me at my day job. While they have all been successful (some took longer than expected ) , there...
View ArticleThe Industries that Bots will Wipe Out
Don’t you love an intriguing headline? I’m not going to talk about our beloved IT jobs just yet, but some other industries are in for a wake-up call. Microsoft Research made an interesting announcement...
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Normalcy is boring, or is it?
Normalcy is boring, or is it? Something that I have been working on is helping to come up with a baseline security plan for an IT team and their infrastructure. What I have ran into is that...
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Cloud in practice. Practical cloud experiences from IT pros to IT pros
The Cloud! The Cloud! Take us to the Cloud it’s cheaper than on-premises, why? Because someone in marketing told me so! No, but seriously. Cloud is a great fit for a lot of organizations, a lot of...
View ArticleNetwork Automation: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Infrastructure automation is nothing new. We’ve been automating our server environments for years, for example. Automating network devices isn’t necessarily brand new either, but it’s never been nearly...
View ArticleUsing Managed File Transfer w/ PCI cardholder data
The PCI Data Security Standards define the security practices and procedures that govern the systems, services, and networks that interact with cardholder or sensitive payment authentication data. The...
View ArticleSurviving the Flood: Getting Started with Network Monitoring
Getting StartedThe network monitoring piece of network management can be a frightening proposition. Ensuring that we have the information we need is an important step, but it's only the first of many....
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THWACK Monthly Mission- November 2016
This is one corner… of one IT environment, in one company, on one planet that’s a corner of a galaxy that’s a corner of a virtual universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and...
View ArticleHIPAA Phase 2 Audits are coming!!
It has been more than 20 years since HIPAA was enacted on August 21, 1996, and in those two decades it has seen quite a bit of change – especially with regards to its impact on IT professionals. First,...
View ArticleIT Trends for 2016 Part3 – Network Virtualization
Amongst the key trending technologies moving forward in the enterprise and data center space is that of the virtualization of the network layer. Seems a little ephemeral in concept, right? So, I’ll...
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