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30 Apr 2008
Hello from InterOp 2008!!!
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Careers & other Craziness
Well, the first day of InterOp 2008 is behind us and what a day it was. A few thousand of you came by the booth today for free software, t-shirts, and to learn more about our software. Heck, we even had free beer from 3:00 to 5:00 when the show closed!!! If you're in Vegas this week stop by and see us and I'll hook you up with some goodies. Hope to see you here... Flame on... Josh p.s. A new version of our NetFlow Traffic Analyzer released yesterday and includes several key features including support for sFlow, J-Flow, and NetFlow v9. Additionally, we made several enhancements...
25 Apr 2008
Who monitors what?
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Planning & Design, Network Monitoring
I've been involved in a lot of conversations recently both here internally at SolarWinds and within the community regarding whose responsible for monitoring what. Are the networking folks responsible for monitoring server hardware? Are the systems folks responsible for monitoring virtual switches? Does the NOC do application level monitoring? In most cases, the answer to all of the above questions is 'YES'. As a matter of fact, in most organizations there is a lot of monitoring overlap - even if there is a dedicated group for monitoring. Most networking shops want to...
24 Apr 2008
InterOP in Vegas Next Week
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Careers & other Craziness
I'll be in Vegas for InterOP next week. Stop by our booth and chat if you have some time... Josh
16 Apr 2008
The Geek Goes Deep - A Technical Look at Traffic Flow Technologies
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Planning & Design, Traffic and Performance
A couple of weeks ago we hosted a webcast on cost saving techniques for managing networks. It went great and we had several hundred people attend the live event and lots and lots more have viewed the recorded version at http://www.solarwinds.com/register/index.aspx?Program=811&c=70150000000DZAL All that said, it didn't quite reach the level of geekiness that I like to put into webcasts. So, I've decided to raise the geek factor for this next event and do a deep dive on flow based technologies including NetFlow, JFlow, SFlow, and IPFix and I've invited our Chief Architect...
7 Apr 2008
The Incredible Hulk and Angry NetFlow
by: Josh Stephens  |  Filed Under: Planning & Design, Traffic and Performance
For those of you that haven't seen it, the new Incredible Hulk movie looks freaking awesome. I guess maybe it comes with the territory when you're as geeky as I am but I absolutely love superhero movies. I've probably watched the trailers for this and the new Batman movie a hundred times each... Of course, in doing so I'm chewing up precious bandwidth and probably causing some of our executives to wonder why their VoIP calls to our other offices are so jittery, but hey, how often does a new Incredible Hulk movie trailer get released? And seriously, our QoS deployment...





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