[SURVEY] SolarWinds Customer Census 2019
IT professionals come from all walks of life, work in all manner of industries, and have experiences that make each of them unique. To better understand your personal and professional growth, we’re...
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The Actuator – February 27th
Back from Darmstadt and another wonderful SQL Konferenz. A few weeks at home before I'm away again when I head to Redmond and the Microsoft MVP Summit. As always, here are some links from the Intertubz...
View ArticleAfter the Great Cloud Debate, What’s Next?
This month, we’ve spent time discussing how cloud will affect traditional on-premises IT operations staff. Many of you provided great feedback on how your organizations view cloud computing, whether...
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Advanced Reporting part 5: What Have We Learned?
At the start of this week, I began posting a series of how-to blogs over in the NPM product forum on building a custom report in Orion®. If you want to go back and catch up, you can find them here:Part...
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THWACK Monthly Mission - March 2019
You find yourself with a multitude of clues. Use your instincts and your plethora of tools to understand the means behind this atrocious crime. This is the worst crime of all. The epitome of...
View ArticleReal World Experiences of Hybrid IT – Part 4
Welcome back to this series of blogs on my real world experiences of Hybrid IT. If you’re just joining us, you can find previous posts here, here and here. So far I have covered a brief introduction to...
View ArticleBreaking Down Silos and Combatting the IoT Threat
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article on the internet of things (IoT) and security threats. We’ve all been expecting IoT devices to be...
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Gisec in Dubai
Hi there! SolarWinds is attending GISEC in Dubai between April 1 – 3 this year.GISEC is the number-one security-focused tech conference in the Middle East, and we’ll be there with our regional...
View ArticleHow to Choose a Cloud Platform - What to Consider in 2019
One is spoiled for choice when it comes to choosing a cloud provider. Cloud platforms have come a long way since their humble beginnings and now offer a myriad of services to suit most use cases...
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The Actuator – March 6th
March is here, and I can only hope that means the worst of winter snow is behind us. I’m looking forward to getting the fire circle operational again. It’s amazing what a little bit of yard work can do...
View Article21st Century Application Development
There’s a revolution underway with application deployment, and you may or may not be aware of it. We’re seeing a move by businesses to adopt technology the large public cloud providers have been using...
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Good Ol Sweet Sweet SWAG
Oh, happy days! After much posting, answering questions and stuff, the day has come, I have finally gotten the coveted THWACK backpack! This thing is SUPER nice! It is going to be my everyday carry...
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How to Monitor NGINX Web Server Performance
When development started on NGINX in 2002, the goal was to develop a web server which would be more performant than Apache had been up to that point. While NGINX may not offer all of the features...
View ArticleNot All Monitoring Tools Are "One Size Fits All"
Monitoring tools are vital to any infrastructure. They analyze and give feedback on what’s going on in your data center. If there are anomalies in traffic, a network monitoring tool will catch it and...
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SolarWinds for Microsoft and VMware
In early January we traveled back in time to see how SolarWinds works with Cisco gear, in preparation for Cisco Live EMEA. Now we’re talking about Microsoft and VMware, but we won’t travel back in...
View ArticleManaging the Second Act of BYOD
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article on BYOD, including data on DHS employees. I feel that, in some cases, a better balance needs to be...
View ArticleIT Operations - How to Slide Into Cloud
The most difficult step in any organization’s journey to the cloud is the first one: where do you start? You’ve watched the industry slowly adopt cloud computing over the last decade, but when you look...
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The Actuator – March 13th
Saw Captain Marvel this past weekend. It's a good movie. You should see it, too. Make sure you stick around for the second end credit scene! As always, here are some links from the Intertubz that I...
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SAM 6.8 What's New Part 1 - AppInsight for Active Directory
SAM 6.8 is now available - Following up to our previously released AppInsight for SQL, Exchange and IIS... The latest installment of AppInsight is here and it wants to make your life easier when it...
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SAM 6.8 WHAT'S NEW PART 2 - Enhanced Support for Cisco UCS Monitoring
In part 2 of "What's New in SAM 6.8" we are going to discuss the improved Cisco UCS monitoring that is shipping with SAM 6.8(If you were looking for part 1 it is over here: SAM 6.8 What's New Part 1 -...
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