The tech industry is booming, and there are many opportunities to transition from other career paths – or to change your path within tech. Join Head Geek Chrystal Taylor as she chats with…
Tech Career Origin Stories — SolarWinds TechPod 047
How the Pandemic Impacted the Government’s Cloud Migration Plans
“Cloud-first” has been a government imperative for many years, but the pandemic usurped this strategy, making “cloud-now” a priority. The results have been transformational. The cloud made wide-scale government telework…
Making Your Service Desk the GOAT
Imagine every time you visited the service desk to submit a ticket, you were greeted by the boisterous drums from the medley of the Olympics—you’d feel like a gold medalist!…
The Parallax View [of Your IT Career]
The Parallax View is a 1974 movie starring Warren Beatty. It’s one of many 1970s-style “conspiracy” movies, if you’re looking for something else to binge while we ride out the…
Resilient Infrastructure for a Secure Future
Each year, SolarWinds® surveys IT professionals around the world to gauge what’s most pressing on their minds, but also to understand their organization’s challenges and how they intend to overcome…
Peer Recognition and Why It Matters
There should always be opportunities to laud our peers’ achievements and good work. One of the things I’ve noticed (at least here in America) is we tend to speak up…
Systems Management Named Biggest Area for IT Professional Development
The 2020 SolarWinds® IT Pro Day survey looked at the changing roles and responsibilities of IT pros throughout the pandemic. Overall, nearly two-thirds of surveyed IT pros discovered a new…
You Can Only Fix What You Measure (So Measure What You Want to Fix)
Recently, my colleagues Pete Di Stefano, Ashley Adams, and I hosted a webcast on the topic of capacity planning and optimization. You can listen/watch it here, it was a really fun conversation.…
The Service Desk and Parenthood’s Shared Classroom
This past April, my husband and I took on our most exciting and daunting chapter yet: parenthood. Despite the chaos around us, we made the most of our pregnancy and…
Exploring Your Data Universe
You can learn a lot about an organization by looking at their data. For example, if I see “LoanToValue” (LTV) or “CollateralValue,” I could surmise they deal with financial data—specifically…