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Vice President, Product, SolarWinds

Brandon Shopp

Brandon Shopp is the vice president of product strategy for security, compliance, and tools at SolarWinds. He served as our director of product management since November 2011, assuming the title and responsibilities of senior director of product management in July 2013. Prior to SolarWinds, Shopp was the vice president of product management at AlienVault, from August 2016 until February 2018, and the senior director of products at Embarcadero Technologies, from July 2015 until August 2016. Shopp has a proven success record in product delivery and revenue growth, with a wide variety of software product, business model, M&A, and go-to-market strategies experience. Shopp holds a B.B.A. from Texas A&M University.

The Latest Posts Featuring Brandon Shopp

Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap

Over the past 15 years, Agile and DevOps have accelerated software delivery, enabling faster releases and greater reliability. Yet the database layer often remains a blind spot. This article by Kevin Kline explores why closing the observability gap is essential for performance, efficiency, and resilience.

March 27, 2026
Database Podcast
Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap
IT pro looks at computer and works
The Sun’s Setting on Cisco Prime Infrastructure, Rising on SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
April 21, 2023
Monitoring and Observability
Cisco recently announced its plan to End of Life (EOL) Cisco Prime Infrastructure. While they’re offering an alternative solution with this announcement, Cisco DNA Center, support for multi-vendor environments appears…
SolarWinds Day: Empowering Our Community
SolarWinds Day Recap: What You May Have Missed
February 22, 2023
Events
Our second SolarWinds Day was another success! For our second SolarWinds Day, we focused on our customers. We shared exciting new product updates, new tool releases, and some helpful tips…
Three Ways a Proactive Defense Strategy Can Prevent Cyberattacks
Three Ways a Proactive Defense Strategy Can Prevent Cyberattacks
August 4, 2022
Security
Schools and local municipalities have always been vulnerable to cyberattacks, but in recent years, especially since the pandemic’s beginning, they have been increasingly more prone to threats. According to a…
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Winning Over the Skeptics: How SD-WAN Is Transforming Government Networks
May 23, 2022
Monitoring and Observability
Are software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) worth the hype? Read below as our own Brandon Shopp details the value of this fast up-and-coming technology and how it can help. Public…
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Three Ways COVID-19 Altered Federal, State IT Budget Allocations
May 9, 2022
Monitoring and Observability
Wondering how the pandemic affected your agency’s budget? Brandon Shopp answers this question and discusses how the pandemic impacted security and service delivery through budget allocations. Amid a rising tide of…
Virtualized Databases: Friend or Foe to Federal IT Pros?
February 14, 2022
Database
Federal IT pros have historically had limited time and resources; this makes it crucial to find the source of application slowdowns or outages as quickly as possible. Database virtualization can help by…
Systems Management Named Biggest Area for IT Professional Development
August 16, 2021
Infrastructure
The 2020 SolarWinds® IT Pro Day survey looked at the changing roles and responsibilities of IT pros throughout the pandemic. Overall, nearly two-thirds of surveyed IT pros discovered a new…
An IT Service Desk Can Help Government Agencies Run More Efficiently
May 24, 2021
IT Service Management
IT is ultimately about providing services to end users, and the IT help desk plays a critical role in this effort. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was…
What Agencies Should Consider Regarding Multi-Cloud Implementations
May 10, 2021
Applications

Multi-cloud architectures have long been hyped for their performance, reliability, and cost savings—and adoption is soaring.
Hybrid IT and Virtualized Workloads Preparing for a Shift to Microsoft Azure
April 26, 2021
Applications
Though government agencies continue to move to the cloud to accelerate their digital transformation plans, the majority have embraced a hybrid IT environment. This mix of on-premises and cloud implementations…
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