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Omar Rafik

Omar Rafik

Omar Rafik

Omar has 36 years of professional experience in the areas of data communications to include X.25, TCP/IP and Satellite communications with 10 years as a Senior Systems Engineer with CMC Datacomm, 14+ years experience as a Technical Sales Manager with Spacenet, INC a leading provider of VSAT communications to enterprise and government clients. For the past 4 years with SolarWinds, he has supported Federal customers both civilian as well as in the DOD in a sales engineering role.

The Latest Posts Featuring Omar Rafik

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.

Quantum computing for federal agencies
Preparing for the Quantum Future: What Agencies Need to Do Now
September 17, 2025
Monitoring and Observability

In 2022, as part of President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure investment plan, the administration committed $180 billion to “R&D and industries of the future.” Quantum computing was named one of the top five priorities in that plan for good reason.

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Three Ways Educational Institutions Can Better Plan for Continuous Learning
September 2, 2022
Monitoring and Observability Security
If we’ve learned anything from the past few years, it’s the routines we used to consider normal—like being able to walk onto a college campus and attend class in-person each…
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Three Ways to Prepare Your Agency for a Modernized Digital Verification System
August 31, 2022
Monitoring and Observability
Last year, the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation for states to develop highly secure, interoperable systems enabling digital identity verification. According to the Better Identity Coalition, the Improving Digital…
4 Tips Relief Fund
Four Ways State and Local Governments Can Effectively Use Pandemic Relief Funds
August 24, 2022
Monitoring and Observability
Last March, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act was passed for pandemic relief, with $350 billion of the money dedicated to state and local agencies as a part of…
Avoid Educational Tool Sprawl
3 Ways Educational Institutions Can Avoid IT Tool Sprawl
July 29, 2022
Tools
As more and more money enters the state and local government budgets from pandemic relief funds like The Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program, the prospect of…