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Patrick Hubbard

With over 20 years of IT experience spanning network management, data center, storage networks, VoIP, virtualization, and more, Hubbard's broad knowledge and hands-on expertise affirm his IT generalist authority. Hubbard’s initial interest in technology began with a grade school dive into Assembly on the Apple II, and eventually to a half-decade of technogenesis in skunkworks IT at American Airlines. Since then, Hubbard’s career has involved product management and strategy, technical evangelism, sales engineering and software development, all with a focus on application and service delivery for startups and Fortune 500 companies alike that span high tech, transportation, financial services and telecom industries. Hubbard is also a Cisco® NetVet and a regular speaker at technology conferences for Ethernet, IPv6 and SDN.

The Latest Posts Featuring Patrick Hubbard

Work-From-Home Whiplash
Global pandemic is a helluva way to learn work from home. After 20+ years of working in an office, it’s been a far bigger change than I’d imagined. Especially if…
20 Years of Your Expertise
January 2, 2020
News
Sometimes it’s hard to believe SolarWinds turned 20 this year. That’s eons to survive as an independent software company, much less to have grown into an industry leader. But there’s…
[De]Constructing Cloud With Mike Pfeiffer — SolarWinds TechPod 021
December 17, 2019
Podcast TechPod

This episode of SolarWinds TechPod is brought to you by the SolarWinds APM suite. Simplify your full-stack monitoring for hybrid, Azure, AWS, and other cloud-native IT environments, and gain valuable performance insights across user experience, applications, services, and infrastructure.

IT Pro Day 2019: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
September 10, 2019
Security
Even after all these years in technology, I remain in awe of IT pros. Watching my kids’ classes, it seems everyone—including elementary school students and other civilians—is practicing truly geeky,…
How to Protect Yourself When Your Software Vendor Has Been Acquired
August 19, 2019
Network
While we all know mergers and acquisitions are common in competitive markets, end users often don’t get insight into the reasoning behind the purchase or takeover. While these decisions sometimes…
How to Survive an M&A — SolarWinds TechPod 014
Host Alex Navarro discusses how to survive and thrive before, during, and after an acquisition with the organizer in chief of Gestalt IT’s Tech Field Day, Stephen Foskett and SolarWinds…
Monitoring, Tracing, and Observability: Choose Two?
October 19, 2018
Network
While it’s inevitable that new technologies usually create new business opportunities, they also often create new problems for IT pros to solve. It’s a natural cycle for operations with which…
THWACKcamp2018 Preview – “Observability”: Just a Fancy Word for “Monitoring”? A Journey from What to Why
September 27, 2018
Applications
Have you registered for THWACKcamp™ 2018? What are you waiting for? This year’s event offers multiple sessions from both industry experts and SolarWinds Head Geeks™ on topics important to you,…
THWACKcamp 2018 Preview – Monitoring Microservices: IT’s Newest Hot Mess
September 21, 2018
Applications
It’s almost that time of year! We’re in full preparation mode for THWACKcamp™ 2018 and can’t wait for you to experience our sessions. Covering everything from network monitoring and management,…
Happy IT Pro Day 2018
September 18, 2018
Security
Perhaps the best part of being an IT pro—of being a technology professional in general—is that you don’t really have a choice. It’s an irrepressible self-nomination to a task force…