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Training for the Future — SolarWinds TechPod 008
Head in the Sand About Cloud: Part 3
In my first post in this series, I introduced an online discussion that sparked a few ideas for me about ways in which some IT professionals have developed poor responses…
Facebook Outage 2019: SysAdmins, Hug Your Servers and Tell Them You Love Them
This week’s Facebook outage is in the news right now, and it’s inevitable that some people are going to rush to post their hot-as-the-surface-of-the-sun takes. Thankfully, this blog is not…
Head in the Sand About Cloud: Part 2
Last month I started an analysis about an argument… I mean a “passionate discussion” on social media. My goal in this series is to use that conversation as a framework…
Head in the Sand About Cloud: Part 1
A recent argument on Twitter (“What?!” I can hear you exclaim, “People disagree on Twitter? This cannot be true!”) highlighted for me just how persistent people can be in holding…
The Cost of Monitoring – With the Wrong Tool
or “It’s not just the cost of buying the puppy, it’s the cost of feeding the puppy that adds up” This is a story I’ve told out loud many times, on conference…
The Cost of (Not) Monitoring
What does a wireless thermometer have in common with ping? Both can keep a business from losing cash. One of the ways businesses stay in business is by keeping a…
Directions
My wife called me for the third time, and I could hear that she was working hard to remain calm but was undeniably at the end of her rope. She…
Happy IT Pro Day!
As we all know, lists and their thinly-veiled derivatives, listicles, drive social media. Post the “top 5 kinds of belly button lint” and you’ll probably get at least a few…
The Complexity Conundrum
The person I mentioned in my last two blog posts was back, and I didn’t even bother asking them why. Honestly, I wasn’t sure whether they were here for the technical…