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Day 20 - Inheritance
My parents – and my in-laws – like to tell us they’re cruising away our inheritance. Which is pretty much true. But truer than that is the gift of so many memories. Last year, I wrote about love and...
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The Actuator – December 20th
We are in the home stretch now, folks, with less than a week to go before The Big Day. I hope you and yours have a wonderful and peaceful holiday season. As always, here are some links from the...
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Orion Skalierung
Ich frage mich manchmal ob es einen Zusammenhang zwischen dem Wachstum einer Firma und dem Wachstum des IT Teams gibt. Vermutlich nicht so wirklich!Es ist leicht zu messen, wenn der Helpdesk...
View ArticleLanding on a Secure File Sharing Solution
Back in October, I wrote about Shadow IT and how some users are turning to popular file sharing applications like Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive to get their work done without the friction. One...
View ArticleCan I deliver value through responsiveness and efficiency?
I don’t know how many times in the past 15 years I have heard people say, “My computers running slow! I need an upgrade.” Everyone, even your colleagues in the IT department, is quick to blame...
View ArticleHappy Holidays! Get a $25 Giftcard & 1,000 THWACK Points for a Review Of DPA.
Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) is about to be featured on G2 Crowd, a site that gives your peers an inside look at “hot” business software. We want to make it easy for people to evaluate and...
View ArticleDay 21 - Noise
It’s a favorite topic here at SolarWinds, particularly in reference to noisy alerts. There’s a lab all about alerts because poorly defined alerts can have such an impact on the effectiveness of your...
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Monitoring Microsoft Office 365 with SAM
Companies are moving their email to cloud in droves.Let's face it, administering Microsoft Exchange is one of those jobs that when everything goes right, no one knows you exist. And when things go...
View ArticleIs collaboration something I should be thinking about?
Over the past few years, we have seen an ever-changing landscape when it comes to technology. When I first started in IT, my company decided on IBM for everything. Servers, storage, and even the backup...
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Can Your Database Run a Four-Minute Mile? Understanding Health vs. Performance
Jogging is my exercise. I use it to tune out noise, focus on a problem at hand, avoid interruptions, and stay healthy. Recently, I was cruising at a comfortable nine-minute pace when four elite runners...
View ArticleDay 22 - Object
I had received an object of complaint letters, stating that the object of the project had not been met and that as Project Manager, I had myself become the object of the failure. My immediate response...
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Word-a-Day Challenge 2017: Week 3 Wrap-Up
There's just a week left and each day is more impressive than the last in terms of the quality of writing, the level of openness, and the creativity of ideas being shared. For those who like metrics...
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IT is a Punderful Life!
Happy Holidays from SolarWinds! We hope you all enjoy an extra helping of cached potatoes & Raspberry Pi ala node this season. Hopefully you're all getting some well deserved vacation time in....
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Day 23 - Parity
(Image credit: Artist: Mayumi Tokuda)Parity. While the word means many different things, I think that in the world of infrastructure, we tend to lean towards the idea of parity within storage. (Insert...
View ArticleDay 24 - Peripheral
Full disclosure: I’m not an especially tech-y person, despite working for SolarWinds. So, when I chose peripheral for this challenge, the first thing that came to mind wasn’t a peripheral device, but...
View ArticleWhat Is Digital Experience Monitoring (and Why Should You Care)?
Digital experience monitoring (DEM) is a newly defined area within the world of application performance monitoring (APM). Gartner has broken up APM into three “functional dimensions” for coverage in...
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Day 25 - Platform
When I think of the word platform, my first thought may not be your first thought. I immediately think of a social media platform: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn. Knowing this, it probably...
View ArticleDay 26 - Utility
It’s Boxing Day, and If you’re reading this on the day itself, here’s to you and yours! I hope your Yuletide celebrations have been filled with family, friends, and above all, good times! Today, I’m...
View ArticleHow Government IT Pros Can Locate Problems and Understand Their Causes
By Joe Kim, SolarWinds EVP, Engineering and Global CTO Trying to find the root cause of IT problems can sometimes feel like trying to find your way out of a maze. Optimistically turning each corner,...
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Day 27: Initial
According to dictionary.com, initial is an adjective meaning “of, relating to, or occurring at the beginning; first.” (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/initial) The important part about this is to...
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