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How to Strategically Plan an IT Budget

How to Build a Strategic IT Budget and Get the C-Suite to Recognize Your Value

IT budgets require a lot of thought, but the process of planning, organizing, and presenting your budget doesn’t have to be painful. In fact,...

what is machine learning

What is Machine Learning: The Hype, the Promise, and the Reality

Although the concepts of artificial intelligence and machine learning are not new, they have recently garnered mainstream attention. As is normal in the technology...

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How to Prevent NetFlow Export Storms

When measuring NetFlow volume, we typically speak in thousands of flows per second. That data is exported over UDP from the network infrastructure to...

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Endpoint protection isn’t enough: you need network traffic analytics

The recent SANs 2018 Survey on Endpoint Protection and Response makes clear that point-security solutions are not enough to quell the ever-growing barrage of...

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What is a Data Silo and Why is It Bad for Your Organization?

Data silos, while common, are huge sources of inefficiency in any department or organization. This problem is exacerbated in IT, where any loss of...

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Clearing the Mine Field: Scrutinizer & Lansweeper for Network Monitoring

Greetings fellow sysadmins. Either you’re reading this because you’ve just installed Lansweeper too, or else you’re wondering “What is Lansweeper? Is it the Linux...

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Network Security Concerns: They’re Attacking My Printers Now?

In today’s digital world, nothing is safe. Just today I came across this post that talks about hackers attacking network printers. It’s not far-fetched...

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Scrutinizer SaaS Deployment

Let’s talk about the cloud for a minute. A majority of IT infrastructure has been moving to the cloud over the last few years,...

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Extreme Networks: Enabling and Disabling SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3

Why am I seeing SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 attempts when I’ve only got SNMPv3 enabled? It appears some of Extreme’s switches handle their SNMP configurations...