1. It’s the Back End for 14 Products and Connectors The full list is published here. The key is, a lot of products all leverage this single database, though not…
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5 Things to Know About the Orion Platform Database Today
Secure by Design | Helping Our Customers Get Back to Business — SolarWinds TechPod 037
Organizations were stopped in their tracks when the cyberattack occurred. When you’re focused on taking the right actions to protect your environment, your users, and your entire enterprise, solid counsel…
Secure by Design | Our Plan for a Safer SolarWinds and Customer Community — SolarWinds TechPod 036
Companies must change the way they operate to combat increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks across ever-expanding attack surfaces. What we learn from one attack can help us protect against the next. Because…
Why Database Performance Is Key to Understanding Application Health
Traditional database and application monitoring used to mean talking about a single server, in a single data center, in a single location. Many monitoring tools were—and still are—built around this…
2021: The Year We May Be Able to Predict
In 2020, COVID-19 changed how we lived and worked. How did the workplace changes impact how we predict IT trends?
Thoughts on the SentryOne Acquisition
I’m writing this as I fly to Charlotte. Yes, in the middle of a pandemic, I am on an airplane. My first flight since March and bringing back a flood…
You Were Built for This: Celebrating IT Pro Day 2020
The year 2020 has been a rollercoaster. With nearly every aspect of our daily lives flipped on its head, it’s hard to think of a single thing that went as…
No, You Still Don’t Need a Blockchain
A couple of years ago, I wrote about why you don’t need a blockchain. Blockchain is one long transaction log that always gets written to and is never backed up.…
Data Security and Privacy at Home
With one of the largest threats to a company’s security and privacy being its own employees, having employees work remotely only adds to the risk. While this year’s Verizon Data…
Developers Are Not Building Shiny New Things
Some, maybe. But not most. Look, I have this theory. I also have data. And as with most stories in my life, it all starts with a trip to Las…