Legacy applications used to be monolithic, often with the database, code, and web server on a single host. But modern apps are different—they use more microservices, containers, and serverless technologies.…
Handle With Care: The Many Ways Modern Web Applications Can Break
How to “People” Better
The answer to upleveling your career as an IT pro? Learn how to “people” better. Creating a beneficial environment for tech pros means being relatable and able to explain the…
How Digital Transformation Is Changing the Role of the Government CIO
Under the leadership of innovative CIOs—Chief Information Officers—the public sector is blazing new trails and focusing on things like digital transformation to provide constituents with the best services available in…
Why Database Performance Is Key to Understanding Application Health
Traditional database and application monitoring used to mean talking about a single server, in a single data center, in a single location. Many monitoring tools were—and still are—built around this…
IT Service Management: The Supporting Bridge for Hybrid IT Infrastructure
For many organizations, the circumstances of 2020 led to a review of on-premises infrastructure and opportunities to take a leap to the cloud. These decisions are not one-size-fits-all, and there…
Avoiding IT Burnout: I Can != I Should
Though burnout is often stigmatized, it’s a real issue. Many things can lead to burnout in IT: dealing with shrinking IT budgets, 100% uptime, and an ever-changing landscape can tax…
2021: The Year We May Be Able to Predict
In 2020, COVID-19 changed how we lived and worked. How did the workplace changes impact how we predict IT trends?
Need for Speed: How SolarWinds Supports Its Partners in the Age of Digital Transformation
One of the biggest challenges organizations face in the current age of digital transformation is the issue of complexity. As the technology landscape continues to expand, organizations are increasingly moving…
What Is Help Desk Software?
Raise your hand if you’re in IT and you’ve at some point in your career worked on the help desk. That’s what we thought. As the front lines of support…
Your IT Life Coach for Monitoring
Of all the different tipss IT pros pick up, monitoring may be the most wide-ranging area and therefore the hardest to nail down in a single blog. After all, how many network techniques are equally valid here? And therein lies the actual secret—and IT guide collected by monitoring experts have little to do with a specific technology or silo and much more to do with the philosophy and discipline of monitoring itself. So I’d like to present you with five simple but important techniques, concepts, or approaches to help improve your monitoring game.