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Provide Application insight, and understanding.
Last week I wrote on the importance of Monitoring the underlying operating system, or OS. http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/51512 This week I wanted to go back and discuss how a product like...
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Reporting on Node and Application Performance with SAM
Last week I wrote onProviding Application insight, and understanding. This week I am talking about Application and Node reports within SAM. Everyone likes consistent results. No matter if it is a...
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Which Compute Architecture Will Reign Supreme?
I would imagine that most folks who have gone either all rack servers or blade servers for the data center will lean a bit towards their chosen solution, but I’m curious about other options that are...
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King for a Day - What would you change?
For the past few weeks I've had some really good discussions around patch management. The reasons why some people don't patch, the reasoning behind why people do patch, where it fits into an...
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Patching and Antivirus : Technology Doppelgangers?
As I am sitting here thinking about Windows Patching (I don't take my meds till 11am ), it strikes me that there are some real parallel threads among patching and Antivirus. They both seem to be a...
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Are you making the move to Windows Server 2012?
Interesting enough, most Windows administrators that I've talked to are immediately turned off by the user experience presented by Windows Server 2012. It’s a very different graphical interface on the...
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Why do you even bother patching?
So there are a bunch of reasons people patch their systems. In fact, there are probably more reasons people patch systems than why they wouldn't. (although there are some valid reasons NOT to patch...
View ArticlePatch Management? I don't care for it but YOU should!
Patch Management! How exciting? Eagerly waiting up till the wee hours of the night on Patch Tuesdays, waiting for Microsoft to release the latest round of security patches and application fixes. I’m...
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What Is The Future of Application Delivery?
Every year seems to be met with an optimistic glow of it being the “year of the desktop”. By that, I mean that a large shift will push virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) into the lime light....
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Virtual Application Servers (vApps) - A Blessing or a Curse?
One of the easiest ways for a vendor to provide an application to you or your organization is through a virtual application offering: think VMware Appliances or even Turnkey solutions. Often the...
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Is monitoring the underlying Operating System Important?
Last week I wrote on why Applications are important. This week I want to touch on the importance of Monitoring the underlying operating system, or OS. Is monitoring the Operating System Important? Yes,...
View ArticleApplication Monitoring, Are Applications Important?
Applications are important. Ultimately, they are the drivers for the technology we all love. Do you monitor your applications today? What about the OS underneath? In today’s world of IT, with smaller...
View ArticleWhat's In Your Monitoring Toolbelt?
As a form of continuation on a previous discussion I kicked off revolving around agent or agentless monitoring, there comes a point where the decision to pick a certain amount of monitoring tools comes...
View ArticlePatch Tuesday and those updates that never get installed
Microsoft implemented (unofficially) a while ago the “Patch Tuesday” strategy: The second Tuesday of each month (this is not written in stone either) they release security patches. But, have you ever...
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The Observer Effect – Agent vs Agentless Monitoring
If you were a Star Trek fan like myself growing up, you might remember a funny device called the Heisenberg Compensator. It was used when transporting people to account for the affects of a theory...
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Are you making the move to Windows Server 2012?
Interesting enough, most Windows administrators that I've talked to are immediately turned off by the user experience presented by Windows Server 2012. It’s a very different graphical interface on the...
View ArticleHow do you keep track of servers, applications, IP addresses?
Where I work we have a configuration management database, or CMDB. The term CMDB comes from the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, or ITIL. ITIL to some is a true four-letter word, but the...
View ArticlePrivate Clouds and Patch Management Strategies
The cloud model is present in a large amount of companies within these days, and if it’s not they are already thinking about it. Even though there are still a lot of organizations which are not ready...
View ArticleThe Application Monitoring Shift
As we continue to strike forward into a more virtualized world, the need for end-to-end visibility of our applications has elevated from a nice to have to a can't live without. Much like the movie...
View ArticleProactive Monitoring is the Future
With the vast amount of objects that must be monitored and tracked in a modern server environment, sometimes it can be harder to simply understand the data than it is to gather it. If you've ever been...
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