Latest Episodes for this Channel
Thu October 02 2008
The job of the network administrator appears never-ending. Constantly searching through monitoring data to isolate and solve the problem of the day me...
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The job of the network administrator appears never-ending. Constantly searching through monitoring data to isolate and solve the problem of the day means long hours and few nights home with family.
The problem often isn't that there's not enough data to identify network problems and performance issues, but usually that there's too much. This week I sat down with Matt Bolton of PacketTrap, a
brand ...
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The job of the network administrator appears never-ending. Constantly searching through monitoring data to isolate and solve the problem of the day means long hours and few nights home with family.
The problem often isn't that there's not enough data to identify network problems and performance issues, but usually that there's too much. This week I sat down with Matt Bolton of PacketTrap, a
brand new network monitoring solutions provider in the market. This company sells a network monitoring product called Perspective that is designed to assist the network administrator with just these
sorts of problems. A product not unlike Orion from Solarwinds or Openview from HP, Perspective gives a new...perspective...on the network by dialing down the amount of data shown to the
administrator. Matt tells me that his main priority is in "getting network administrators back home for dinner." If you're an overworked network administrator, you'll want to pull up a chair and
check out this great podcast with PacketTrap where we talk about what you need to do just that.
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Tue August 26 2008
There's a real product-centrism problem in today's IT. An environment that buys VMware has an entirely different set of tools to manage and orchestrat...
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There's a real product-centrism problem in today's IT. An environment that buys VMware has an entirely different set of tools to manage and orchestrate user access than one that buys blades. Oracle
versus SQL connections and Citrix versus Terminal Services are all other examples of the access complexities seen in today's environments as they grow. Ultimately, the real goal for IT is in getting
use...
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There's a real product-centrism problem in today's IT. An environment that buys VMware has an entirely different set of tools to manage and orchestrate user access than one that buys blades. Oracle
versus SQL connections and Citrix versus Terminal Services are all other examples of the access complexities seen in today's environments as they grow. Ultimately, the real goal for IT is in getting
users access to their necessary data. That access needs to occur with the data being rendered through its many applications. Today's IT gets even more complex with those applications being hosted
atop multiple platforms, both virtual and physical. All this spaghetti of management utilities and user interfaces is a burden to administrators and a real issue for the non-technical user who just
wants to do their job. In this podcast with Eran Heyman of Ericom software, we talk about the issues surrounding user access and common application management. We talk about Eran's 25 year history in
computing and how he's seen the world change from the mainframe model to client/server and back again. You'll learn in this podcast how important it can be to centralize the management and
provisioning of all your hosted resources -- whether presentation virtualization, VDI, or others -- under unified user interfaces.
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Sun July 27 2008
Whether your IT organization is under the heavy hand of regulatory compliance or not, the perils of unencrypted data can be a big risk for your most s...
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Whether your IT organization is under the heavy hand of regulatory compliance or not, the perils of unencrypted data can be a big risk for your most sensitive data. That data, whether its sitting
within your data stores or being transferred around the network needs some level of encryption to protect it against prying eyes. Even worse, if you are under the microscope of compliance, you can be
liab...
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Whether your IT organization is under the heavy hand of regulatory compliance or not, the perils of unencrypted data can be a big risk for your most sensitive data. That data, whether its sitting
within your data stores or being transferred around the network needs some level of encryption to protect it against prying eyes. Even worse, if you are under the microscope of compliance, you can be
liable for a disclosure of that information. In this podcast, I talk with Kevin Gillis of Ipswitch about some of the more recent data breaches seen by IT organizations that didn't properly plan for
hacking. We talk about the types of compliance laws that require encryption, and the tools and techniques you need to incorporate to protect yourself. Whether its HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, or even just
the desire to stay safe, this podcast will enlighten you to some of the tools available today that keep that data secure no matter where it is.
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Thu July 17 2008
If you're a small business (or even a "medium" one) you might suffer from the "accidental IT person" syndrome. That is, the person with a knack for co...
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If you're a small business (or even a "medium" one) you might suffer from the "accidental IT person" syndrome. That is, the person with a knack for computers somehow accidentally becomes the IT
person for the business. That's perfectly fine when it comes to keeping people's desktops running or setting up the file server. But email is growing to become a mission critical need for all
businesses. Wh...
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If you're a small business (or even a "medium" one) you might suffer from the "accidental IT person" syndrome. That is, the person with a knack for computers somehow accidentally becomes the IT
person for the business. That's perfectly fine when it comes to keeping people's desktops running or setting up the file server. But email is growing to become a mission critical need for all
businesses. When email goes down, the business goes down. Adding to the problem is that the skills required to do email correctly are hard to find and require a lot of experience to develop. Unlike a
lot of Microsoft servers, you can't just drop an Exchange server in your network and expect it to work perfectly for long -- unless you build its enviornment correctly. Alternatively, you can
outsource this critical service to an outside vendor with layers upon layers of redundancy. In this podcast, I talk with Apptix, one of those very vendors that prides themselves on being a perfect
fit for the SMB. In fact, they're the largest email outsourcer in the world. Learn from Apptix Director of Engineering James Bond about what's cool and exciting in the world of Exchange outsourcing,
and what you need to know to do outsourcing correctly. Oh, and yes, that is his name, and we even talk about a few funny stories about his time at the Pentagon...seriously... James is also an
entertaining speaker, which makes this interview a whole lot of fun. Its worth a few minutes of your time...
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Wed July 02 2008
Unstructured data is everywhere. Its on your file shares, your NAS devices, your UNIX shared directories. Office documents, images, CAD drawings, and ...
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Unstructured data is everywhere. Its on your file shares, your NAS devices, your UNIX shared directories. Office documents, images, CAD drawings, and virtually everything that isn't wrapped up into
some type of database fills up these spaces with "unstructured" information. The problem with this kind of data on these types of mediums is in keeping their permissions correctly assigned over time.
Wi...
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Unstructured data is everywhere. Its on your file shares, your NAS devices, your UNIX shared directories. Office documents, images, CAD drawings, and virtually everything that isn't wrapped up into
some type of database fills up these spaces with "unstructured" information. The problem with this kind of data on these types of mediums is in keeping their permissions correctly assigned over time.
With a dynamic workforce and a never-ending pattern of growth, managing permissions is a challenge. Making the job even harder are the native tools made available for visualizing and modifying
permissions on this data. They're great for a few changes here and there, but intolerable when data storage gets beyond even just a few folders. In this podcast, I talk with Raphael Reich of Varonis
about the problems of managing unstructured data with and how third party products are necessary to ensure it is protected. With the right products in place, you can visualize permissions all across
a data share, you can see where data is being used and where its being left untouched. And, using tools from Varonis, you can even wipe your hands from the daily tasks of managing data permissions,
leaving it to the data owners themselves -- a transfer of responsibility that many consider one of the holy grails of IT administration. Raphael's got a great story to tell, and one that you should
consider listening to if you tire of the constant battle of resetting permissions.
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