Platform engineering started appearing in 2017 and was identified as a distinct DevOps role in 2019 in the book Team Topologies. Adoption quickly accelerates, and by 2022, there are platform…
Platform Engineering – Paving the Way to Accelerate Releases
The Future of Database Monitoring – AIOps
IT pros need tools designed to ingest large volumes of data, correlate events across data sources, detect problems, and resolve them with new technologies to support more efficient IT systems.…
SQL Sentry Then and Now Part 2
In my first post, I talked about how SQL Sentry has taken shape over the years. Now we announced SQL Sentry 2023.3, and a lot is changing. In the past,…
Exploring the Summer of Zero-Days — SolarWinds TechPod 079
Join host Sean Sebring as he talks to SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown about the 2023 threat landscape after an unprecedented number of cyberattacks. You’re going to want to buckle up,…
Data Transformation in the BFSI Industry: From Hiccups to High Performance
We’ve been watching the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) industry’s rapid evolution over the last decade, and so much of it is thanks to advancements in database technologies. They’re…
Building Better Software Supply Chain Security by Being Secure by Design
The exponential growth of applications and digital commerce has met with unprecedented security breaches across software supply chains. At SolarWinds Day: Secure by Design, I closed a panel led by…
Understanding Enterprise Service Management and the Benefits for Your Business
According to a study conducted by the Service Desk Institute, Enterprise Service Management (ESM) strategies were adopted by 68% of organizations by mid-2021. This was a 58% increase from two…
IT Pro Day 2023
It’s IT Pro Day! It’s the time of year we all get together to recognize the hard work IT Pros do all year round. So, let’s gather ‘round the warmth…
SQL Sentry Then and Now
With the release of SQL Sentry 2023.3, I look back at the past 18 years I have worked with the product to admire where it is today versus then. It’s…
The Future of SQL Sentry
This month, I celebrate 11 years of working on SQL Sentry. I started as employee number 15 at SentryOne and then moved through various roles in support, customer success, and…