Back in the early days of Microsoft SQL Server, database administrators had few resources to draw upon and learn from. In the ’90s, we had SQL Server Professional, edited by…
A Conversation With Aaron Bertrand
Monitoring WordPress Sites With SolarWinds Papertrail
Log files are an important source of information about the state of an application and how it’s functioning. Therefore, log management and analysis are critical to application performance monitoring. Operations…
ServiceNow + SolarWinds Incident Response Integration: Automate IT Ticketing and Project Tracking
ServiceNow is a workflow automation platform used by organizations for their IT ticketing and project management needs. In contrast, SolarWinds Incident Response is an end-to-end Reliability Workflow platform that is…
SolarWinds Responds to the Situation in Ukraine
SolarWinds has a diverse workforce of employees in 16 countries located in Canada, Western and Central Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. Similarly, we have over 300,000 customers located in…
What Is Serverless Architecture? Benefits + Pros and Cons
Serverless architecture is a bit of a misnomer. The term itself implies your applications aren’t running on any servers, which isn’t the case. Serverless architecture means a cloud provider—such as…
SHIELDS UP: CISA Guidance for Cybersecurity
As the world sends its support to the people of Ukraine in this time of unrest and uncertainty, the evolving conditions in the region raise the alert for the entire…
An Ode to THWACKcamp
It all started on October 10, 2012. This was the date of the very first THWACKcamp™. In this, the inaugural piece of awesomeness, SolarWinds presented 15 30-minute sessions, showing the…
The Growth of milCloud 2.0 Demands a New Monitoring Approach
The addition of Amazon Web Services and VMware to the Defense Department’s milCloud 2.0 contract will make it easier for agencies to transition applications and services to the cloud. However, the acceleration of this effort may…
Traditional vs Modern Incident Response
What is Incident Response? An incident is an event (network outage, system failure, data breach, etc.) that can lead to loss of, or disruption to, an organization’s operations, services or…
Understanding the Role of a Data Steward
Many years ago, in my earliest IT jobs in Omaha, Nebraska, I realized the field of data was going to continue to evolve and, as such, there would always be…