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11 Jan 2012

BYOD - Bring Your Own Device - more trouble than it's worth or just what the doctor ordered?

by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Planning & Design, Troubleshooting, LAN & Wireless, Network Monitoring, Application monitoring, Systems Manangement, Security
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In today's age of iPhones, Androids, iPads, and Kindles - it's not uncommon for employees to spend more time working on their personally owned computing devices than the ones issued to them by their companies. For example, while SolarWinds has issued me a laptop and a server (I use it as a wicked fast desktop), I do about 70 percent of my work from my personally owned iPhone and iPad. This trend creates some interesting dilemmas for both IT managers and IT users, some of which are covered in this blog post by my fellow Computer World blogger Barbara Krasnoff.

We'd like to learn more about how your company deals with the "Bring Your Own Device" or BYOD trend and we're willing to pay you for what you know. Fill out our survey on Personal Mobile Devices and Enterprise Networks for a chance to score a $50 Amazon gift card. You can visit the survey here and I'll also share the results here on the Geek Speak blog.


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13 Dec 2011

Configuring SNMPv3 on a Cisco router

by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Planning & Design, Troubleshooting, LAN & Wireless, WAN, Network Monitoring, Traffic and Performance, SLA Management, Configuration Management, Security
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As most of you probably know, SNMPv3 has several advantages over previous versions of SNMP. Most importantly, SNMPv3 adds security to the protocol. Historically, using SNMPv3 was pretty tricky because not many network monitoring tools supported it and many of the network devices (routers, switches, firewalls) had varying levels of SNMPv3 support. However, things have changed quite a bit in the last few years and SNMPv3 is widely supported today and thus, it's been widely adopted by many companies around the world. Here at SolarWinds our network monitoring and systems management...
30 Nov 2011

IT certifications - get 'em while they're hot...

by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Planning & Design, Troubleshooting, LAN & Wireless, WAN, Careers & other Craziness, Network Monitoring, Application monitoring, Systems Manangement, Configuration Management
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We recently partnered with Network World to conduct a survey on IT certifications and I must say that the results surprised me, even though I was already a fan of IT certifications. You can click here to see the full results, but to summarize: 60% of the respondents said that having an IT certification helped them land a new job 50% said that they earn more money thanks to their certifications 30% said that their certifications helped them get a promotion Wow! If there's ever been a time to think about getting a certification, especially with the economies and job markets being...
3 Nov 2011

Compliance - is it still a four letter word?

by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Events & Appearances, Systems Manangement, Configuration Management, Security
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Last week we hosted a webcast entitled "Achieving and Maintaining Federal Compliance". For those of you that are new to this subject, compliance management or policy management is the process of ensuring that your IT department is complying to the rules and standards that have either been mandated to them by a governing authority or by the management team within your own organization. It can be as simple as verifying that all of your outside interfaces have specific access control lists (ACLs) applied to them or that all of your users' passwords are of a certain strength...
26 Oct 2011

Back to the basics of network management

by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Planning & Design, Troubleshooting, LAN & Wireless, Network Monitoring, Traffic and Performance, Events & Appearances, Systems Manangement
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A couple of weeks ago we hosted a webcast called "Back to the Basics of Network Management". Our "back to the basics" webcasts are always a big hit but maybe not for the reasons that you'd think... Yes, many folks that attend these webcasts are new to IT management and may be implementing the first network management system within their company. However, more and more we talk with people that are instead starting over from a network management perspective and want to be sure that they get the fundamentals down correctly before moving on to more advanced topics...
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