I look after our Data Protection Portfolio from a pre-sales technical side. Every day I talk to existing and potential customers about server and data backup and recovery. During my conversations, I often ask them if they’ve lost any data or if they’ve…
Performance Analysis for SQL Server, and Performance Analysis for Oracle, have been long-standing tools in the our portfolio (The following article only applies to SQL Server and Oracle. Performance Investigator for DB2 has not yet been developed). When…
In this blog, I want to share a scenario that happens when not all the local components are not present doing a specific type of install.
When selecting ‘Create a New Connection’ | ‘Salesforce’, there is nowhere to enter the connection data, such as…
Here is an annoying issue that hopefully will never happen to you.
For the most part, there is just one service account to run the Diagnostic Server; however, some users may decide, "Hey, I'm going to monitor one or two connections with my own…
Peer-to-Peer replication (P2P) allows users on multiple databases to make changes concurrently to the same data, while SharePlex replication keeps all of the databases synchronized. Peer-to-Peer…
Changes are not only inevitable but they are also more complex and have a greater impact each time. Even the simplest modification can have a considerable effect on the virtual environment.
Generally, we don't realize how we have been impacted until…
My grandmother was the greatest. She was the iconic example of old world class and style… I never knew she was also a prophet.
As I was growing up, she would always take me aside and raising a finger crooked from age, she would point to me and…
Finally, the moment you’ve been waiting for: the Foglight quarterly maintenance release! That’s right, Foglight 5.7.5.5 was released on July 14 with a focus on customer-raised bugs, general quality of work, Foglight Management Server performance…
Many administrators work with GPO’s every day to make user and PC management easier however, the very same feature that makes one aspect of managing Active Directory easier can become cumbersome itself. GPOADmin is the best platform for managing…
This release of Toad Intelligence Central includes the following new features and enhancements.
Stat has been running smoothly for many months, and then suddenly Katie’s e-mail approvals do not appear to be moving the workflow along as it should.
Katie receives e-mails from Stat asking for approval, and she responds by approving them.
She…
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
I was raised fifteen miles west of Concord, Massachusetts. More specifically, I was raised 14.9 miles west of Walden Pond and the…
In this blog post, I’ll approach some issues pertaining to Data Protection | Rapid Recovery virtual standby machines. It is a subject that requires some groundwork to be properly approached. So, without further ado, let’s begin!
Rapid Recovery…
Time is one of the scarcest resources in any kind of organization and we, as virtual systems administrators, are also affected by it. New tasks appear every day, our clients (internal and external) become more and more demanding, technology keeps on developing…
TWAIN, the standard protocol for communication between document scanning software, document scanners and other image capture devices has undergone steady change since the TWAIN initiative first launched in 1992. Not an acronym, the word TWAIN is said…
Auditing an application of its users’ activities can be useful and at times a mandatory task in tightly-secured environments. Spotlight has many robust capabilities such as deleting or disabling connections to changing alarm threshold values or stopping…
One of the pitfalls of creating custom rules for Foglight is failure to take into account assumptions being made when crafting a custom rule. As a result this can cause unexpected results when different assumptions are made, for example when the individual…
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How do you handle capacity management in your virtual environment?
If you find yourself frantically trying to keep an eye on VM density, disk space, service levels, resource utilization and – gulp – zombie VMs…
The Association of Support Professionals (ASP) has announced the winners of its “Ten Best Web Support Sites” competition that showcases excellence in online service and support
As you know, time is your…
If you've been noticing that you're not getting deadlock email alerts from Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise even though alarms are popping up in Spotlight itself, then this workaround might be for you.
Before you move on though, I am assuming…
A multi-functional tool to manage user settings and assist in troubleshooting.
How many times have you fixed your Toad for Oracle’s settings the way you want it and would like to: As Toad for Oracle users, we know that Toad for Oracle is all about…
Toad™ Data Modeler 6.0 is a major release with new features and functionality.
Toad™ Data Modeler has always enabled its users to reverse engineer database structures, update models, design and generate SQL, compare models along with other…
