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Welcome to Geek Speak!

Do you spend your days managing Catalyst® switches, mastering the hidden secrets of Cisco IOS®, & counting routers in your branch offices? If so, Geek Speak is right up your alley.

Our Head Geek, Josh Stephens, has spent years in the network management trenches & has learned a thing or two about keeping a network up & running. Now he wants to share his experience, tips, & knowledge with you!

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Use the free SolarWinds VM Monitor to monitor the CPU, memory, disk usage, and traffic of your ESX Server and the associated virtual machines.

FROM THE GEEK BLOG

BYOD - Bring Your Own Device - more trouble than it's worth or just what the doctor ordered?

posted on 01/11/12 at 12:39 pm (1204 views)

In today's age of iPhones, Androids, iPads, and Kindles - it's not uncommon for employees to spend more time working on their personally owned co...

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Configuring SNMPv3 on a Cisco router

posted on 12/13/11 at 11:00 am (1499 views)

IT certifications - get 'em while they're hot...

posted on 11/30/11 at 10:30 am (1591 views)

Compliance - is it still a four letter word?

posted on 11/03/11 at 03:20 pm in HIPAAcomplianceFiSMApolicy managementDISA stigsNIST (1156 views)

Back to the basics of network management

posted on 10/26/11 at 09:27 am (1554 views)

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