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Principal Product Marketing Manager

Kathleen Walker

Kathleen Walker is a Principal Product Marketing Manager for SolarWinds, and focuses on network and systems management.  She has over 20 year of experience in technology, with her career spanning manufacturing, SaaS providers, security, and systems management products.  She is passionate about matching technology to problems it can solve.

The Latest Posts Featuring Kathleen Walker

The High-Performance DBA: Breaking the Burnout Cycle in Modern Database Teams

In this article, Kevin Kline introduces The High-Performance DBA webcast series, drawing on insights from our recent State of Database Report to explain why DBA burnout is rising and how teams can move beyond constant reactivity.

April 1, 2026
Database
The High-Performance DBA: Breaking the Burnout Cycle in Modern Database Teams
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Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap
March 27, 2026
Database

Over the past 15 years, Agile and DevOps have accelerated application delivery, enabling faster, more reliable releases. Yet the database layer often remains a blind spot for observability and performance monitoring.

In this article, Kevin Kline shows why closing the database observability gap is critical to improving performance, efficiency, and resilience for DBAs, developers, and the businesses that depend on their data.
Breach Data Trends: October 2019 to March 2020
May 6, 2020
Security
Most of us have no idea if our credentials are out in the wild, for bad actors to take and use for malicious intent. Unfortunately, they often are. Since October…
Is it Time to Have Another Look at Your Monitoring Solution?
February 5, 2019
Network
Think about the last time you had an outage or service interruption in your IT environment. When did you first discover the outage? How long had it been going on?…
Are You “Flying Blind?”
January 28, 2019
Network
Would you travel on an airplane if the flight crew were “flying blind?” What does it mean to be “flying blind?” Freedictionary.com defines it as “to do something based on…