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Tony Palmer

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Senior Engineer, Enterprise Strategy Group Lab

Tony Palmer

ESG Lab Senior Engineer Tony Palmer provides independent, hands-on validation and analysis of emerging IT hardware and software products. Tony came to ESG in 2006 and has 24 years of field experience supporting networking, systems, and storage vendors in numerous pre-sales and technical marketing roles.

The Latest Posts Featuring Tony Palmer

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.

Observability Challenges Solved with SolarWinds Observability
By Tony Palmer, Principal Validation Analyst; and Justin Boyer, Validation Analyst Modern application architecture focuses on microservices and cloud-first architecture, which means there are many smaller applications connecting to each…