SQL Server virtualization is an expectation today, including for mission-critical systems. In its first decade of implementation, virtualization was rare for database workloads. However, virtualization is largely defacto across medium-…
Fitting Into IT Society
Working with IT around the planet can be challenging, not because of technology, but because of cultural differences. Join Kevin M. Sparenberg, SolarWinds Head Geek™ Sascha Giese, and Stephen Foskett…
Change Is Good. Monitoring Change Is Better.
You can’t run IT without changes, but changes are the #1 source of problems for IT. The fact is, you can’t – and shouldn’t – avoid change. In this session,…
IT’s New Responsibility: Employee Engagement
The importance of employee engagement with IT should be obvious. Everything they do depends on IT infrastructure and digital tools, so it’s crucial that they have an outlet to express…
Your Golden Ticket to Alert Reduction
SolarWinds Orion Alerting brings optimizations with the four golden signals: latency, errors, saturation, and traffic. These are your key signals to effective alert noise reduction. In this session, SolarWinds Distinguished…
Upgrade, Migrate, or Both?
Join us once again for the best game show in software: Upgrade, Migrate, or Both! We pit our two experts against each other in scenarios you could encounter in your…
Account Takeover IS Your Problem — SolarWinds TechPod 020
Phishing and malware are scary enough, but the number one tactic used by bad actors to get access to and take over accounts is something different: using compromised credentials. Why?…
Better Visibility Can Help Improve Your FITARA scores
The most recent version of the scorecard measuring agency implementation of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act gave agencies cause for both celebration and concern. On the whole, scores in…
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.
Bust the Ghost VMs in Your Cloud Closet
We all have free and available resources lurking in our infrastructure, though sprawl reduces efficiencies, and many resources are “technically” being consumed by “ghosts” and zombie machines. But don’t worry,…