Rick Gines

Rick Gines has written 3 posts for WhatsUp Gold: Daily Network Monitor Blog

The need for IP Address Management is Now!

TweetMy – how research has changed in the 20 years I have been working in IT and high-tech! Normally, you would have to scour reams and reams of articles in trade rags delivered via snail mail to find information relevant to your work. Now we have the ability to set alerts, custom feeds and create [...]

IT Management: A flower box in the spring

TweetAs I sit in my office, I periodically look over at a fake plastic tree nearby. As I look at it, about the only maintenance that it would ever need is a periodic dusting. It doesn’t require any sunlight, water or fertilizer to keep its color or shape.                                                                                      Contrast this to the flower boxes around [...]

Network Management from a Systems Management Point of View – It ALL Starts with Discovery!

TweetAs a product manager of an integrated solution suite, it’s interesting to compare and contrast the similarities and differences between traditional systems management (OS deployment, inventory, software delivery, patching, monitoring) and its major trends (security, virtualization, cloud, efficient data centers) with network management (deployment and configuration, backup/restore, monitoring, traffic analysis, Quality of Service) and networking [...]

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