407: Old School Outages

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407: Old School Outages

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Jul 10, 2019

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Jim shares his Nagios tips and Wes chimes in with some modern tools as we chat monitoring in the wake of some high-profile outages.
Plus we turn our eye to hardware and get excited about the latest Ryzen line from AMD.

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Jul 10, 2019

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Systems, Network, and Administration Podcast. Every two weeks TechSNAP covers the stories that impact those of us in the tech industry, and all of us that follow it. Every episode we dedicate a portion of the show to answer audience questions, discuss best practices, and solving your problems.

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Episode 208: Any Cert Will Do | TechSNAP 208: Why boring technology might be the better choice, Google revokes & China chokes, why you want to create an account at irs.gov before crooks do it for you. Plus your great IT questions, a rocking round up & much, much more! by TechSNAP
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