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It is 2025, and ransomware is still making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Last year alone, several large-scale incidents showed just how creative attackers can get. The one that sticks with me involved a regional cloud provider in Europe.

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.

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.

In an era of constant technological flux, many IT teams find themselves running just to stand still. New platforms, services, and deployment models promise agility, but for organizations with deep investments in traditional infrastructure, adapting to this pace of change is anything but simple. The discussion around cloud-native transformation just keeps on growing.

Organizations increasingly rely on Amazon Web Services to power their digital transformations, with the cloud provider commanding approximately 30% of the global market. This creates exciting new possibilities, but also the potential for increased complexity.

The SolarWinds team has been traveling around the globe to attend AWS Summits to talk about all things cloud, and, of course, AI.

Effective cloud monitoring is essential for maintaining the performance, reliability, and security of your cloud infrastructure. Whether you’re managing a single cloud environment or a complex multi-cloud setup, here are the key capabilities an effective cloud monitoring solution should offer.

Complex hybrid IT setups are leading us to rethink how we structure our IT departments. Let’s discuss ITOps and CloudOps in 2025. Could making them a single team be more…

John Wilson, Director of Sales for SLED & Healthcare at SolarWinds, recently took on the topic of cloud challenges for agencies in an article for www.GovLoop.com. Managing upfront cloud costs,…