SolarWinds x Cloud Field Day 7
05/01/20 Cloud Field Day, hosted by Gestalt IT, is an invite-only, live-streamed technical meeting focused on the impact of cloud on enterprise IT. Held over 2-3 days, the event br…
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Surviving Through Chaos
05/01/20 We fell asleep in one world and woke up in another. I read somewhere that suddenly, Disney is out of magic, Paris is no longer romantic, New York doesn’t stand up anymore,…
Monitor Confluent Platform with Datadog
This Datadog article details how to effectively monitor your Apache Kafka clusters using Datadog's integration. It covers collecting key metrics like message latency, consumer lag,…
8 Questions to Ask Non-IT Departments About Their Services
04/30/20 IT has goals around restoring service and powering internal operations for employees. As an IT pro, this is well-known to you, but you aren’t the only one who has customer…
Onboarding SteelConnect EX Branches with a Staging Script
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zGajxUImvM[/embedyt] After you’ve deployed a SteelConnect EX SD-WAN headend, common next steps are to onboard branches to the headend, pl…
Becoming Hybrid: Selecting a Cloud Platform
04/29/20 All right, this is where things start to get more fun. To this point we’ve done a lot of talking about things NOT cloud platform related, including requirements gathering …
Use a Federal Framework to Improve Cybersecurity at Your Organization
04/28/20 According to the SolarWinds 2019 Federal Cybersecurity survey report, threats posed by careless and malicious insiders and foreign governments are at an all-time high. The…
8 Ways Smart Tech Is Making the World a Better Place
04/27/20 It seems everywhere we turn, we’re bombarded with bad news from all around the world: coronavirus, environmental changes, government scandals, and regional conflicts. It’s…
Enterprise-Grade SD-WAN: SteelConnect EX Advanced Routing Capabilities
Advanced network routing is one of the most powerful features of Riverbed’s enterprise-grade SD-WAN solution SteelConnect EX – definitely one of my favorites. While other vendors t…
Riverbed Introduces LTE/Wi-Fi Enabled Enterprise SD-WAN
The Application Acceleration portfolio has expanded its power and flexibility with the addition of three new enterprise SD-WAN appliances: EX-385, EX-485, and EX-685. Ideal for Int…
Geeking Out With Your Kids—Taking Advantage of Opportunity
04/24/20 In my last post, I talked about what I implemented at home to deal with WFH full-time while my son is also distance learning full-time. By being trapped together by social…
15 Surprising Stats on the Shift to Remote Work due to COVID-19
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, “work from home” has rapidly escalated from one of many remote work options to “the remote work option.” For IT professionals, this means enab…