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This year, the SolarWinds World Tour is visiting 23 cities around the globe. Along the way, it’s delivering product demonstrations, technical presentations, and valuable face time with both customers and partners.

The SolarWinds IT Trends Report is an annual, independent report exploring the challenges and strategies IT teams face to achieve operational resilience. The 2025 report was created in partnership with UserEvidence, who surveyed over 600 IT leaders. The survey focused on how respondents perceive their organization’s operational resilience and the underlying issues that affect it.

The SolarWinds THWACK® user community is getting an exciting upgrade! (Or a glow-up, if you prefer.) You can read more here.

Last week we hosted the first of our three-part Observability Masterclass series. In this initial session, we explored the concept of unified visibility, a crucial aspect of observability.

It’s easy to be tempted by the convenience of buying monitoring or observability software directly from your hardware provider. On the surface, it seems efficient: fewer vendors, “native” integration, and perhaps even bundled discounts. But this path can often lead to unintended complexity and long-term limitations.

In today’s highly commoditized market, organizations often address problems with technology but fail to create the conditions in which tools can be effective. When these solutions don’t fix the issue, IT leaders are stumped. The truth is, we frequently underestimate the significance of the workflows and teams these tools are designed to assist.

Tech Evangelist Sascha Giese takes on the topic of on-prem repatriation for TECHx.

The Big 3 Hyperscalers are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As cloud computing has grown in popularity, they have each in turn discovered that the average potential customer really isn’t prepared for the massive mind shift needed to achieve a level of mastery comparable to their self-hosted computing environments.

Operational resilience is more than uptime. It’s the ability to respond, recover, and adapt to the daily pressures of complex systems, growing demands, and shifting priorities. For many IT teams, resilience isn’t out of reach, but it is harder to achieve than it should be.

Cherwell’s legacy as a powerhouse of customizable workflows and automation now hands the baton to a new era of innovation and integration in IT service management.