Every year, on the third Tuesday of September, we celebrate IT Pro Day – a day set aside to recognize all tech pros and the work they do. For some obvious reasons, this…
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IT Pro Day 2020: You Were Built for This — SolarWinds TechPod 032
Back to School in the New Different — SolarWinds TechPod 031
For campus IT, “back to school” holds an entirely different meaning for the Fall 2020 semester. On this episode of SolarWinds® TechPod™, Head Geek™ Liz Beavers is joined by Jenny Reeves, operations program manager for a K-12 school in…
Managed Desktop Devices at Scale — SolarWinds TechPod 029
What do IT managers and managed service providers (MSPs) have in common? They both manage a sea of desktop devices. Join the SolarWinds MSP™ Head Nerds while they discuss the challenges and successes of deploying, managing and securing the multitude of…
MySQL Query Performance Statistics In The Performance Schema
Quite some time ago, when we added the ability to monitor MySQL query performance statistics from MySQL’s PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA, we learned a number of valuable lessons, still worth sharing. There are definitely right…
What Is Cardinality in a Database?
Databases have a lot of jargon, and cardinality is one of those words experienced people tend to forget they didn’t know once upon a time. But if you don’t know it—and it…
A Quick Look at Parallel Rsync and How it Can Save a System Hours
In this post, we’ll take a quick look at rsync (“remote sync”) and parallel rysnc—a way to increase the efficiency and speed of traditional rsync—both of which can be effective…
What Is MongoDB’s _id Field and How to Use It
The MongoDB _id field is fundamental to every collection in MongoDB, and, by default, it has some useful properties users can take advantage of when familiar with how _id is…
Holt-Winters Forecasting and Exponential Smoothing Simplified
Holt-Winters forecasting is a way to model and predict the behavior of a sequence of values over time—a time series. Holt-Winters is one of the most popular forecasting techniques for…
Eyes Wide Open: Visibility is Key to Cloud Migration
Migrating to the cloud is smart but it’s not always easy. It can be a complicated process requiring a substantial investment of time and resources. Yet the benefits make the…
Cloud Adoption Myths and How to Deal With Them
Cloud adoption is no longer a question of “if” but “how fast.” Yet for many organizations, the journey to the cloud is anything but straightforward. As businesses strive to modernize legacy systems and embrace the agility of platforms like AWS, they often encounter a tangled web of complexity, visibility gaps, and operational silos.