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  • Cisco Live

    Take a peek into Cisco Live and the SW booth! See the pictures here!
    Posted to Weekly Update by Dawn_L on Wed, Jul 1 2009

  • Come see SolarWinds at Cisco Live! next week in San Francisco!!!

    Booth #931 Free swag (T-shirts, USB keys, geek pins) Free geek drawings (yeah, like my avatar but of you) Free Mountain Dew (hey, we all get thirsty) Technology presentations every half hour by yours truly (hence why I get so thirsty) Follow the event...
    Posted to Geek Speak by Josh Stephens on Thu, Jun 25 2009

  • Weekly Update 6/25/09

    Certification is here! I know we have been teasing you forever, well the wait is over! Congrats to the Beta participants that are now SolarWinds Certified Professionals! For info on what the test covers, links to study materials and info on taking the test visit the SCP pages . Going to Cisco Live? Are you going to Cisco Live next week? We are, and we would love to talk with you! Come by booth #931 and see us. Upcoming Technical Workshop! Josh is hosting a technical workshop at the Hyatt Dulles on July 15th. If you are in the D.C. area, come join us! Register here. Josh Says: If you missed the...
    Posted to Weekly Update by Dawn_L on Thu, Jun 25 2009

  • Raising the visibility of IT and Network Operations

    One of the things that I tend to talk alot about is how to raise the visibility of the IT and network engineering groups within your organization. If you get this right, not only will your job get easier but you'll find that getting budget approved...
    Posted to Geek Speak by Josh Stephens on Tue, Jun 23 2009

  • Understanding NetFlow and its role in traffic analysis and as a transport protocol

    Over the last few days I've been writing and talking a lot about NetFlow. This is a smokin' hot topic for network engineers nowadays and so we've created some new videos and webcasts to help explain the technology and how you can leverage it. One of the subjects that kept coming up is how to get NetFlow data from your Cisco ASAs. I had to do some research to verify my understanding of how this worked but now that I'm done I thought I should share it here. When most of us think about NetFlow, we think about traffic analysis. When you enable NetFlow on a router or switch and send...
    Posted to Geek Speak by Josh Stephens on Wed, Jun 17 2009

  • New SolarWinds Webcast on Thursday - Exposing the Hidden Secrets of Cisco IOS

    This Thursday we're hosting a new webcast on some of hidden secrets of Cisco IOS. Specfiically, we're going to dive into Cisco IP SLA, NetFlow, and EnergyWise. I'm pretty excited as my buddy Jimmy Ray Purser (co-host of Cisco TechWise TV ...
    Posted to Geek Speak by Josh Stephens on Tue, Jun 16 2009

  • Weekly Update 6/16/09

    New Webinar: Hidden Secrets of IOS Josh is excited to welcome Cisco Geek Jimmy Ray Purcer for a discussion about the benefits of using IP SLA, NetFlow, and EnergyWise as part of your daily network management tactics. Register Now! IPAM Changes In response to your feedback, we have released an update to Orion IPAM which will no longer count unused/available IPs as managed IPs. For more information see the release notes . Good things come in 3s. If you missed it, see the "Three New Orion Products" Newsletter . Toolset 10 Josh discusses Toolset 10 in his blog.
    Posted to Weekly Update by Dawn_L on Tue, Jun 16 2009

  • Killer dude, like, totally awesome...

    In case you haven’t seen it yet, the SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset version 10.1 is now available and includes some pretty cool new stuff. One of the coolest pieces of technology that 10.1 added is the new and improved traffic generator, WAN...
    Posted to Geek Speak by Josh Stephens on Thu, Jun 11 2009

  • Weekly Update 5/27/09

    Energywise is here! EnergyWise technology gives you a framework for discovering, monitoring, optimizing, and regulating energy needs for your business. Cisco has partnered with SolarWinds to have Orion products help you take advantage of these powerful capabilities with the management and configuration features built into Orion Network Performance Monitor and Orion Network Configuration Manager . Orion NPM 9.5 See what's new with Orion NPM v9.5. Orion NCM 5.5 See what's new with Orion NCM v 5.5 .
    Posted to Weekly Update by Dawn_L on Wed, May 27 2009

  • New versions of SolarWinds Orion NPM and NCM available now...

    The dev guys here have been working hard (as usual) and I'm pleased to announce that we now have new versions of Orion NPM (Network Performance Monitor) and NCM (Network Configuration Manager) available for download. For existing customers with active...
    Posted to Geek Speak by Josh Stephens on Tue, May 26 2009

  • Update 5/20/09

    Product Releases! Find out what is new with the releases for VoIP, and the Toolset family! VoIP Monitor v2.1 , Engineer’s Toolset v10.1 and Standard Toolset v10.1
    Posted to Weekly Update by Dawn_L on Wed, May 20 2009

  • Advanced IP Address Management

    This week I traveled to Washington DC to speak on the subject of Advanced IP Address Management. For those of you that attended - Thank you!!! It was a great seminar with lots of attendee participation and we shared some great stories and best practices...
    Posted to Geek Speak by Josh Stephens on Fri, May 15 2009

  • SolarWinds Orion wins Codie Award

    Sometimes you have to swagger a little and I reckon this is one of those times. Orion has just won a Codie Award!!! Go here to see the full list of winners. Flame on... Josh Follow me on Twitter
    Posted to Geek Speak by Josh Stephens on Wed, May 13 2009
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  • Weekly Update 5/7/09

    Vote for SolarWinds! Network Product Guide is looking for the Best Products and Services and you can vote! Josh gives you more information in his blog. Webcast: Advanced IP Address Management Josh is at it again with another upcoming Geek Speak Webcast...
    Posted to Weekly Update by Dawn_L on Thu, May 7 2009

  • Cast your vote...

    Today some of the SolarWinds products have been nominated for the "Best Products" awards from the Network Products Guide . I think this is pretty awesome as I get to spend a lot of time with our product management, engineering, and tech support teams and I know that they work hard to deliver great products to the people they love most - our customers. The winners will be decided by you - actual users of the applications out in the industry that care enough to go to the website and cast their votes . So, pause American Idol, the Celtics vs. Magic game, or that rerun of Family Guy and go...
    Posted to Geek Speak by Josh Stephens on Wed, May 6 2009
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