Social media has become a mainstream part of our lives. Day in and day out, most of us are using social media to do micro-blogging, interact with family, share photos,…
3 Ways AI Is Changing Social Media
4 Keys to Successful Cyberdefense Automation
Automation can reduce the need to perform mundane tasks, improve efficiency, and create a more agile response to threats. For example, administrators can use artificial intelligence and machine learning to…
2020 Predictions: APM’s Year
As a new year approaches, we start to reflect on the year we’re leaving behind. While 2019 was the stepping stone for many technologies and changes in the industry from…
Foresight is 2020: My Predictions For the Coming Year
The year is winding down, and—while it’s not something I do every year—I thought I’d take a moment to look ahead and make a few educated guesses about what the…
A Quick Look at Parallel Rsync and How it Can Save a System Hours
In this post, we’ll take a quick look at rsync (“remote sync”) and parallel rysnc—a way to increase the efficiency and speed of traditional rsync—both of which can be effective…
2020 Predictions: 2019 is Here to Stay
The end of a year always raises the same question—what’s next? We imagine all the new possibilities and opportunities 2020 will bring. We get so excited about what’s ahead, we…
The Growing Value of IT in the Business
Technology is a driving force in today’s business, regardless of industry. It’s how we connect to others a few feet away or across the globe—serving as a vehicle for communication…
3 Ideas to Build a Better Cybersecurity Strategy
Data from the Center for Strategic and International Studies paints a sobering picture of the modern cybersecurity landscape. The CSIS, which has been compiling data on cyberattacks against government agencies…
A POwerful SHortcut to Automating Operations
A few years back I was working at a SaaS provider when we had an internal hackathon. The guidelines were simple: As part of your project you had to learn…
Reducing SolarWinds DPM’s Agent Overhead With Partial Network Capture
SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) now supports partial network capture to reduce load while monitoring MySQL database servers, where a trade-off between full visibility and monitoring overhead might be desirable.