Day 12 - Obfuscate
Obfuscate – to make less clear. Love the word! It’s fun to say. Now there may be some negative connotations with this word, especially in contemporary times. Alternative facts, cell phone bills, my...
View ArticleIs Hybrid IT Worth the Trouble?
By Joe Kim, SolarWinds EVP, Engineering and Global CTO Government IT professionals have a lot on their plates. Thanks to the increasingly sophisticated threat of cyberattacks, their jobs are not...
View ArticleDay 13 - Bootstrap
It’s a mindset. (And yes, it’s also the name of Twitter’s front-end web framework, amongst other things.) Bootstrapping is essentially the commitment to getting something done no matter what obstacles...
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Einfach mal Patchen - Teil 3
Tach, Bereit für die nächste und letzte Runde mit unserem Patch Manager? Wir hatten bisher über die Installation und die ersten Schritte gesprochen und sind einmal einen einfachen Patchprozess...
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The Actuator – December 13th
Christmas is two weeks away. Consider this your warning to get all of your holiday shopping done in time, unlike last year. I know I’ll be browsing Amazon a lot this week. As always, here are some...
View ArticleDay 14 - Cookies
I was taught to bake, not cook. As a child, my mother and grandmother showed me how to measure flour, crack eggs, and transform simple ingredients into one magical, delicious, comforting whole. I made...
View ArticleDay 15 - Argument
Being someone raised in a household with very stubborn parents, arguments were the core of my existence. As a parent myself, I have learned to not escalate arguments—although sometimes they are bound...
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Word-a-Day Challenge 2017: Week 2 Wrap-Up
We're two weeks into the 2017 Word-a-Day challenge and I cannot begin to describe the incredible depth and meaning of what people are sharing. And boy are you all sharing. So far you have responded...
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The Future is Always Bright
In my last couple of posts, I’ve tried to paint a picture of the past and present of database management and monitoring. We've seen that good database performance has everything to do with knowledge,...
View ArticleIs Compliance Something I Should Be Thinking About?
Over the past 12 months, I've heard the word “compliance” thrown around quite a bit. Only now does compliance depend on what department or industry you are in. From ISO to General Data Protection...
View ArticleObservability - Control Systems Theory
Observability is key to successful hybrid IT deployments because it goes hand-and-hand with controllability. If you can observe a system’s internals well, then you can control equally well that...
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Day 16 - Backbone
Jared Dunten is a loving husband and father, an extremely talented artist and copywriter, a fellow Aggie, and the quadriplegic survivor of an unfortunate diving accident. Jared was paralyzed after...
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Day 17 - Character
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” - John Wooden was an American...
View ArticleDay 18 - Fragment
Fragment. I didn’t grow up with connections in any industry. Neither one of my parents went to college or made an exorbitant amount of money. My mom was a superhero/childcare provider and my dad spent...
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Everything I Needed To Know About IT I Learned From Logan (Part Two)
(This is the second part of a series. You can find Part One here.) It behooves me to remind you that there are many spoilers beyond this point. If you haven't seen the movie yet, and don't want to know...
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VIRTUALIZATION MANAGER 8.1 IS NOW GENERALLY AVAILABLE!!
I am excited to announce the latest release of Virtualization Manager (VMAN) 8.1which is now available on the Customer Portal. Continuing the great work done in VMAN 8.0 to migrate VMAN functionality...
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Day 19 - Gateway
In the contexts of Information Technology and of humanity, I define “gateway” as a portal for change. We, and our data, may enter new environments by passing through that gateway. When you discover...
View ArticleHow Tech Trends Impact Military Networks
By Joe Kim, SolarWinds EVP, Engineering and Global CTO Bring your own application (BYOA), virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and software-defined networking (SDN) may promise great things, but they...
View Article4 Ways to Turn your app from an idea into Reality.
A saying I read somewhere ‘A Good Idea becomes a great idea when you let it out’ How true! Anything today in the market was initially an idea. An idea becomes a great idea when it is executed. Mobile...
View ArticleApache SOLR Certification Training Course
About SOLR: Solr is an open-source search platform which is used to build search applications. It was built on top of Lucene (full text search engine). Solr is enterprise-ready, fast and highly...
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