Holt-Winters forecasting is a way to model and predict the behavior of a sequence of values over time—a time series. Holt-Winters is one of the most popular forecasting techniques for…
Holt-Winters Forecasting and Exponential Smoothing Simplified
Lockdown: Improving SQL Server Performance for Vendor-Locked Applications
Application vendors support many customers, and they often need to impose some control over variables in order to do so. For example, for me to help someone with the performance…
Just Throw It in the Cloud! The Battle of the Clouds Series
Scenario: a mission-critical application is having performance issues during peak business hours. App developers blame the storage. The storage team blames the network. The network admin blames the infrastructure. The…
Uniting IT Operations and IT Service Management 101
Having both a positive employee experience and employee engagement are key factors for an organization’s success. In a recent SolarWinds survey, over 85% of IT pros said that IT is…
Boosting Orion Platform Performance With New Maps, Syslog/Trap Engines – SolarWinds Lab #82 (Part 1)
Want to learn a couple of easy ways to increase performance of your SolarWinds Orion Platform? Of course you do! In this networking-focused part one of our year-end performance series,…
When “Good Enough” Is Costing You Money
In 2015, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security carried out covert tests on TSA Security at major airports to see how successful they would be at detecting potentially dangerous and/or…
VividCortex is Joining SolarWinds!
We’re excited to share that VividCortex is now part of the SolarWinds® family. We believe this change will help to accelerate the adoption of our product as well as the…
How to Configure an Office 365 Tenant
Introduction I’m going to look at the basic steps required for setting up an Office 365 tenant. There are a few ways you can purchase Office 365. There’s the good…
3 Strategies for Managing the IT Impact of Classroom Technology
Forty-eight percent of students currently use a computer in school, while 42% use a smartphone, according to a recent report by Cambridge International. These technologies provide students with the ability…
ITSM: A Conversation With Garry Schmidt, Part 3
Garry Schmidt first got involved in IT Service Management almost 20 years ago. Since becoming the manager of the IT Operations Center at SaskPower, ITSM has become one of his…