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 a need for people who worked with and understood data. Regardless of which industry someone worked in—financial, medical, governmental, transportation, or retail—someone would have to work with and maintain business data, or the business would fail. This realization led me into the world of databases and SQL Server.
ITSM For More Than Just IT – SolarWinds TechPod 055
When you hear the term service desk, what generally comes to mind? Perhaps it’s to get a password reset, maybe ordering a new laptop, your run-of-the-mill asks for IT. Have you…
How Automation Takes the Time and Guesswork Out of Security Compliance
As this fiscal year wraps up, many agencies are planning their response to compliance reporting requirements. Meeting these requirements—particularly in advance of an audit—can be incredibly time-consuming. While the Defense…
The Critical Role of Observability in SRE
Observability is the practice of assessing a system’s internal state by observing its external outputs. Through instrumentation, systems can provide telemetry such as metrics, traces, and logs that help organizations…
What can SREs do to make holiday season’s peak traffic less chaotic?
The recently concluded Black Friday weekend could have potentially been the most challenging shift for On-Call engineers working in the Retail or E-Commerce sector. Since such peak-traffic events push the…
Infrastructure as Code: All you need to know
In this blog post, we will explore the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of infrastructure as code so you can make an informed decision on how (and why)…
U.S. Government Issues Advisory Against Common Cyber Threats During the Holidays
In advance of this week’s Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a reminder for critical infrastructure…
The Disappearing DBA: Embracing Automation to Advance Your Career — SolarWinds TechPod 054
A good DBA is hard to find. This is because a good DBA wears many hats, often equating to 3 – 4 full time jobs. How can this be achieved or sustained? The secret is automation, and automation…
How the U.S. State Department Can Overcome the Trade-Offs of its Multi-Cloud Strategy
The U.S. State Department has a global workforce of 69,000 across more than 270 diplomatic missions. To support the work of its “untethered diplomats,” State’s Bureau of Information Resource Management…
How to improve your influence as an SRE
Balancing fast-paced business requirements with the demands of keeping production services stable is not an easy task. SRE is an opinionated implementation of DevOps and is defined by Ben Sloss,…