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Lawrence Garvin

Lawrence Garvin

Lawrence Garvin is Head Geek and technical product marketing manager at SolarWinds, a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP), and an eight-time consecutive recipient of the Microsoft MVP award in recognition for his contributions to the Microsoft TechNet WSUS forum. He has been working with Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Software Update Services (SUS) since the release of SUS SP1 in 2003, and update management, generally, since the creation of Windows Update in 1998. Prior to joining EminentWare (now part of SolarWinds) in 2009, Lawrence offered Windows Server Update Services expertise, including deployment, implementation, and troubleshooting advice to companies worldwide as Principal/CTO of Onsite Technology Solutions.

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Strategies For Implementing Hybrid Cloud Solutions

Use a thorough, planned approach for success.
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January 26, 2015
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Transitioning portions of IT applications and services into the cloud is something that’s starting to emerge in the minds of IT professionals across organizations of all sizes.
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Lessons We Should All Learn From 2014

It’s all about security, security, security.
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Lawrence Garvin
December 31, 2014
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As the saying widely attributed (correctly or incorrectly, you be the judge) to the great Albert Einstein goes, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”
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Is it Time to Outsource Your Shopping Cart?

Evaluate the security risk when making the decision.
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Lawrence Garvin
December 11, 2014
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Considering the ongoing onslaught of payment system breaches, one of the things that operators of online shopping systems might want to evaluate is the security of their own shopping cart software.
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Converged Infrastructure: Good, Bad, Or Somewhere In Between?

And the promise of the software defined data center.
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November 24, 2014
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Perhaps one of the more notable evolutionary developments in technology is converged infrastructure.
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A (Somewhat) Belated VMworld Recap

Cloud and SDN were hot topics.
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Lawrence Garvin
September 29, 2014
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Following my return from TechEd and Cisco Live! in June, I promised a recap of my experiences and impressions from VMworld, which was held late last month in San Francisco.
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App-Centric IT: The Proof Is In The Pudding

Survey results shed light on the new IT landscape.
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August 28, 2014
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Last month, I outlined the need to move towards a more application-centric approach to IT monitoring, but what I didn’t specifically discuss is how the enduser fits into the equation.
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The Need For Application-Centric Monitoring

Break free of the us vs. them mentality.
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July 30, 2014
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As the world of technology continues to evolve around us and the boundaries between network and systems become less defined, systems administrators and network administrators need to evolve their monitoring practices to take on a more application-centered focus, rather than the traditional silos of systems monitoring or network monitoring.
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Software Won’t Make You Compliant, But It Can Help

It is but one step in the process.
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July 11, 2014
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Quite often, I encounter prospective software buyers who ask the question, “Is this product pick-your-regulation compliant?”
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TechEd and Cisco Live and VMworld! Oh my!

A brief recap of the topics discussed.
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June 16, 2014
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This past month saw the annual trade shows of two out of the three major vendors who affect almost every data center in existence.
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Help! I Just Inherited A System And It’s A Nightmare

First, don't panic.
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May 26, 2014
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Hardly a day goes by in my travels and discourses that I don’t encounter an IT pro new to an organization that discovers they’ve inherited some server, application, service, etc. that doesn’t make sense in its current implementation.
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