by Theresa Miller | Oct 13, 2016 | Monitoring Tools, Solarwinds, Sponsored, Theresa Miller, Virtualization
Today server virtualization is advanced compared to its early days of inception over a decade ago, but the best part is that are our monitoring capabilities. When setup correctly we can have a proactive monitoring design that actually allows your Virtualization Team...
by Theresa Miller | Oct 6, 2016 | Monitoring Tools, Solarwinds, Sponsored, Theresa Miller, Virtualization
When I step back and think about how we did monitoring in the past it amazes me how we survived in our infrastructure roles in IT. More specifically when server virtualization was introduced was there really any monitoring available? We were closing our eyes, and...
by Theresa Miller | Jul 19, 2016 | Monitoring Tools, Sonia Cuff
The Small and Medium Business (SMB) market has been such a big part of my life for the past 12 years that sometimes I forget the stark contrast between it and the enterprise world. Desktop monitoring is one of those topics where opinions differ. Desktop Monitoring? I...
by Theresa Miller | Jun 21, 2016 | Monitoring Tools, Sonia Cuff
If you’re an Enterprise systems administrator, you’ll have some structured tools in place to support your servers and desktops. In a Microsoft-centric world, you’re likely to have a Standard Operating Environment, locked-down control via Group Policy, and SCCM and...
by Theresa Miller | May 18, 2016 | Monitoring Tools, Sonia Cuff, Virtualization, Windows
More and more organizations are weighing up the numbers – is it still cost-effective to run your own data center or even rent rack space in someone else’s data center? Is Infrastructure as a Service the way to go, to smooth out periods of large capex and reduce the...
by Theresa Miller | Mar 31, 2016 | Exchange, Monitoring Tools, Phoummala Schmitt, Solarwinds, Sponsored
It’s just email… Almost every Exchange administrator has heard those words said before. But what happens when email is down or running slow? What do you do to keep running? When a system goes down, it would appear to be as the world has completely ended. In today’s...
