July 2011 Blog Posts

Drumroll Please: Announcing The 2011 OpenDNS SysAdmin Awards Winners!

It’s SysAdmin Appreciation Day and we’re celebrating by crowning our 2011 SysAdmin of the Year and worthy winners in six other categories. The nominations poured in and we challenged a talented panel of OpenDNS engineers and…

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22 Trillion DNS Requests Later, OpenDNS Turns Five

Five years of OpenDNS. We’ve come so far and have much to be thankful for.

In 2005, before launching OpenDNS, I went to talk with some of the leading DNS experts to get feedback — and the feedback I received was consistent…

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Five Questions with Deepak Kumar Vasudevan

Editorial note: Deepak is a tremendous enthusiast, advocate, and ambassador for OpenDNS, most notably on our Facebook page where we (w00t!) recently hit 25,000 fans! After a ten year stint in India as a programmer and engineer for…

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OpenDNS plays nicely with Mac OS X Lion

I received two emails this week asking me if OpenDNS would work with Mac OS X 10.7 (aka Lion). Whenever a new version of a major operating system comes out, I get a couple questions like this. Of course, the answer is yes…

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SysAdmins: Let us remind your boss that you rock!

At OpenDNS, we think the SysAdmins and IT pros are the real unsung heroes. Even though you spend every day quietly averting disaster and keeping the network up and running, it’s not often you get the recognition you deserve. As…

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iPhones, iPads and Androids; an IT coming of age story

I talk to our customers often, and lately I’ve been hearing that they are seeing more and more diversity in the types of devices connecting to their network. More importantly, these devices are not being provisioned by the IT…

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Sign up now: webinar Thursday about rock-solid OpenDNS malware protection

Join our free webinar, focused exclusively on our rock-solid, best-in-class malware protection this Thursday, July 14th, at 11am PT, and learn how OpenDNS can secure your network from malware and botnets once and for all.

Two…

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SysAdmin Awards: Just a few days left to nominate!

Nominations for the 2011 SysAdmin Awards will soon close and we want to make sure you get your nominations in. Deadline for entries is midnight PST July 12 so there’s still plenty of time. Take a few minutes NOW and honor…

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