Protect the Critical Applications (Hacktivism #3)
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Problem to Solve: What can we do to protect our organization from Hacktivism, specifically in the area of protecting our Critical Application Services? Have your business critical application services ever become “unavailable”? We have all had this happen at one … Continue reading

Fundamental Methods for Identifying and Mitigating DoS Attacks
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Problem to Solve:  How can we best identify and mitigate Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks? Everyday, service providers and large enterprises are victims of denial of service (DoS) attacks. Over the last few years, Sony and Microsoft couldn’t deliver gaming … Continue reading

Protect the Highway – Critical Links (Hacktivism #2)
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Problem to Solve:  What can we do to protect our organization from Hacktivism, specifically in the area of Critical Links and Infrastructure? Have you ever seen any of your critical business links that look a “little congested“? I bet that some of … Continue reading

Protect The House .. from Hacktivism (Series)
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Problem to Solve:  What can we do to protect our organization from Hacktivism?  How can I use my Application and Network Performance Management tools to help assist? Nope, not starting this article out with 80’s movie reference, music video, silly … Continue reading

You Can’t Handle the DNS Truth
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Problem to Solve – My company is experiencing application response time and DNS issues in our IPV4 environment.    What could be the issue to troubleshoot and resolve this pain? This topic is so easy and well documented I paused before actually … Continue reading

Paradise by the Service Dashboard Light
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Problem to Solve – My company has many different IT and business solutions and it is difficult to a get a “single pane of glass” service dashboard to see how everything is performing.   What can we do? I will admit that … Continue reading

Fat, Drunk and Stupid No Way to Go thru Big Data
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Problem to Solve – My company is starting a Big Data / “Internet of Things” initiative as a Business Strategy.     How can I use my APM/NPM tools in this strategic effort? Yes, yes, we all remember the classic movie, Animal House … Continue reading

Office365 Ate My Cloud Homework ?? (Part 2)
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Problem to Solve – My company transitioned to a Cloud-based Office365 deployment. How can we assure the application service is working properly if it is not in our Data Center? In the past year, we have had many customers ask … Continue reading