Recently I wrote a post for Solarwinds Thwack. Its interesting, because I wrote a small series that covered why in a way ignorance is bliss. Sometimes what we don’t know can be our saving grace, that being said I also share some insights into what I wish I had know when I started out in […]
The Future – Monitoring Your Virtual Server Environment
So if I could image what monitoring would look like in the future I would want the solution to be “unicorns and rainbows” out-of-box. So what do I mean by this? I would want a solution that analyzes my environment for me and tells me exactly where my issues are based upon my environment. I […]
The Present – Monitoring Your Virtual Server Environment
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 the ability to sleep at night. No longer being woken up by untimely […]
The Past – Monitoring Your Virtual Server Environment
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 crossing our fingers hoping that our design could meet the […]
Keep Your Web Apps Running Lean & Mean
Web apps – from websites to SharePoint® – are getting more complex, which means troubleshooting can get complicated when there’s a slowdown. But, keeping things in high gear is easier than you think. Join Phoummala Schmitt, Theresa Miller and Steven Hunt in this webinar to learn how to deliver high performance of web applications powered […]
Monitoring your Exchange Servers to Prevent and Troubleshoot Common Issues
It’s just email… Almost every Exchange administrator has heard those words said before. But what happens when email is down or running slow? It would appear to be as the world has completely ended. In today’s world email is the main form of communication for the majority of businesses. Without email there is loss of […]
How to use Monitoring to Optimize Resources in a Virtualized Environment
It’s a virtual world in our enterprise workplaces. Organizations that have server virtualization often choose to deploy virtual servers before considering server hardware purchases. With a virtualization first and hardware second strategy; businesses are able to maximize how they use their compute and disk resources. So How Is Monitoring a Factor? If I can maximize […]
#CurrentStatus Podcast: Rethink your Approach to System Monitoring
During this Episode of Current Status co-hosts Theresa Miller, Phoummala Schmitt, and Melissa Palmer talk with guest Leon Adato @leonadato, Head Geek at Solarwinds. We talk about the fact that if monitoring isn’t setup correctly it can become white noise. So what strategies can we use to make sure that the right alerting and automation […]