Which Infrastructure Monitoring Tools Are Right for You? On-Premises vs. SaaS
If, like me, you believe we’re living in a hybrid IT world when it comes to workload placement, then it would make sense to also consider a hybrid approach when deploying IT infrastructure monitoring...
View ArticleCan Edge Computing Help Resolve Our Top Network Challenges?
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article from my colleague Mav Turner. He offers a good overview of edge computing and offers suggestions on...
View ArticleAre you monitoring Windows workloads in AWS? We need to speak with you!
THWACKnation - Are any of you monitoring Windows workloads in AWS? Or even just the OS? Please comment below, we have a team that would like to speak with you!
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The Actuator – June 12th
This week's Actuator comes to you from sunny San Diego and Cisco Live! If you are here, and reading this, then you still have time to stop by Booth #1621 and say hello. I enjoy talking data with...
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Why Businesses Don't Want Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence
Did you come here hoping to read a summary of the past 5+ years of my research on self-driving, autonomous vehicles, Tesla, and TNC businesses?Well, you’re in luck… that’s my next post. This post...
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THWACK [Mini] Mission: Web Performance Monitor (WPM)
The secret is in the data. You’re sure of it. Running the test was supposed to give you the information you need. But as the test ends, you realize…this is going to have to be done in person. You load...
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The Story Patching Tells
In post #3 of this information security series, let's cover one of the essential components in an organization's defense strategy: their approach to patching systems. Everywhere an AttackWhen did you...
View ArticleLicensing Monitoring Tools: What Types of Models There Are and When Each...
This is a continuation of one of my previous blog posts, Which Infrastructure Monitoring Tools Are Right for You? On-Premises vs. SaaS, where I talked about the considerations and benefits of running...
View ArticleProviding Deeper Database Insights for the Federal IT Manager
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Brandon Shopp about choosing a database tool to help improve application performance...
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Introducing SolarWinds Service Desk (SWSD)
I’m excited to announce the general availability of SolarWinds Service Desk, the newest member in the SolarWinds product family, following the acquisition of Samanage. SolarWinds Service Desk (SWSD) is...
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The Actuator – June 19th
Home from San Diego and Cisco Live! for a few days, just enough time to spend Father's Day with friends and family. Now I'm back on the road, heading to Lingen, Germany, for Data Grillen. That's right,...
View ArticleSurvey – Your Thoughts on Unified Communications
How do you know if your voice, video, or collaboration services aren’t performing? Are you proactively monitoring or do you only find out when users start complaining? We want to hear from you! Help...
View ArticleWelcoming a New Member to the THWACK Team
On the heels of the SolarWinds Service Desk announcement, we thought it was only appropriate to formally introduce a new member to the THWACK® team who is joining us from the recent Samanage...
View ArticleHow To Prevent Tool Sprawl in Your DevOps Toolchain
We put in all this work to create afully customized toolchaintailored to your situation. Great! I bet you're happy you can change small bits and pieces of your toolchain when circumstances change, and...
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Introducing Network Insight for Palo Alto Networks
We’re excited to introduce our Network Insight™ for Palo Alto firewalls! This is the fourth Network Insight feature, and we’re building these in direct response to your feedback about the most...
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Can Tesla Cure the 10th Leading Cause of Death in the World With Autonomous...
Are you excited for this post? I certainly know I am! If this is the first article you're seeing of mine and you haven't read my prior article, "Why Businesses Don't Want Machine Learning or Artificial...
View ArticlePut Security in the Background to Put Security First
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Jim Hansen. Jim offers three suggestions to help with security, including using...
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NCM v8.0 is Generally Available
It gives me great pleasure to introduce the newest version of Network Configuration Manager (NCM), v8.0, as generally available! I’m pretty excited about this release, as it’s jam-packed full of great...
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The Actuator – June 26th
Home after a couple weeks on the road between Cisco Live! and Data Grillen. My next event is Microsoft Inspire, and if you're attending, please stop by the booth so we can talk data. As always, here...
View ArticleHybrid Cloud Makes Everything Better
The hybrid cloud makes everything better. It's helping drive down costs, it's making the software we use to run our data centers easier, and it's pushing innovation. The public cloud has stolen the...
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