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You'll Absolutely Love These 5 Amazing Craft Beer Places in Berlin
It's that time of year again: Cisco Live is in Berlin next week for its annual Europe edition. If you're about to pack your bags for your trip to Berlin just like we are, you probably can't wait to join all the sessions and programs for some major technology inspiration. Obviously schedules can get quite packed during conferences like Cisco Live, so it's always nice if you've got a chance to unwind a little after such a long day. While there are plenty of social events on site, you'll want to explore Berlin a little while you're there and while you're at it, why not sample some fantastic beer? No problem at all! Especially if you've got somebody like Theresa to guide you to the most extraordinary craft beer places in town. She is the most avid craft beer geek you can possibly imagine, and I'm thrilled she shared her personal top 5 spots in Berlin.
The Invincible Admin: 5 Things to Consider That Will Make You A Super Admin in 2017
2017 is moving along quickly and there are a few things that should be on every Sysadmin's checklist this year. Things that should no longer be procrastinated or be on the list titled "sometimes later once the urgent tasks are done". Let's call those things the "five inevitables" or "the not to missed ones". So where should we get started?
Love Is In the Air ...and In Your Datacenter
What keeps you up at night? Ok, I'm not talking about tonight after an evening with your special someone... ;)
What are the things on your network, in your infrastructure or in your business processes that are mission critical but may not have 99.99% availability or 11 9's of durability? For most of us, we're not Amazon, not even close. Even as you move platforms and infrastructure into Amazon or somewhere else, you still have a network with end points, switches, firewalls, access points, printers and more than a few servers. You have users bringing their own devices into your facilities, including their own cloud services and applications running over your network on top of what you "officially" support and maintain. Meanwhile, you have Nick Burns running around trying to be the local unofficial IT guy supporting all of that.
How to Secure Backups and Improve Reporting for Your Veeam
Do you use Veeam for your VMware backups, and you’re looking for more accurate data for the reports, as well as for improved alerting options? The VMware expert Markus Kraus has published and described two scripts on his blog "My Cloud-(R)Evolution", which can be integrated as sensors in PRTG Network Monitor.
Know Your Enemy: What Happens Behind the Scenes in a DDoS Attack
This is part 1 of a new blog series about DDoS attacks. This article covers the different types of DDoS attacks and how they work. You'll learn the main categories of DDoS attacks and which vulnerabilities each one takes advantage of.
Additional articles will cover how to mitigate DDoS attacks and will give you insight into how Paessler recently defended ourselves against a DDoS.
These Free Scripts Save Money and Secure Your Network
Whether you want to keep track of your costs at Amazon Web Services, monitor the battery charge of your APC devices, or monitor your Veeam Backup servers, you'll find the appropriate script in our new Script World.
9 of the Stupidest Questions Sysadmins Have to Endure
After reading this you'll realize that the hardest part of a sysadmin's job is not his network—it's the people who need his help. Not all of them, but those who get particularly, um, creative, around IT.
Why Network Monitoring is Important in the Educational Sector
A switch is a switch is a switch. And whether it is in a computer center or in a hospital or in an office: it must be monitored. That was my first thought, when a sales colleague asked me to write an industry insight on IT monitoring at schools and universities.
The Easiest Way to Identify the Active Node in a Windows Cluster
If you run a Windows cluster and want to know which of your nodes is currently active, you must actively look for this. If one node goes down and another one takes over, you will only notice this the next time you manually check.
Mirror Mirror on the Wall Who Has the Ugliest Sweater of Them All?
At Paessler we get to wear casual clothes most of the time, and believe us, we are very grateful for this. However, one of our colleagues had the idea to dress up on a Friday a couple of weeks ago. Celebrating "Fancy Friday" was so much fun we thought we'd take it to the next level...
