Developers are the kingmakers. Millions of decisions made by tens of thousands of developers are ultimately responsible for the triumph or tragedy of IT. Developers for commercial vendors, open-source projects,…
CostOps: The Overlooked Developer Responsibility
Bridging Data and DevOps: Is Your DevOps Incomplete?
DevOps has great potential; when it’s done right, it offers organizations improved collaboration, quick innovation, better quality, and shorter delivery cycles. But the reality is that some businesses don’t carry…
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?
A Beautiful ITSM Union: ITIL and DevOps
Since the launch of ITIL 4, incorporating DevOps into service management strategy has been a hot topic. On the surface, both DevOps and ITIL are frameworks that can help facilitate…
Security Operations and IT Operations — Better Together— SolarWinds TechPod 030
Security operations and IT operations have a lot of differences, but more similarities than you may think, especially as their worlds are merging more quickly than ever before. This presentation will delve into research driven…
2020 Vision—What Does the Future Hold for DevOps?
2019 was busy year for DevOps as measured by the events held on the topic. Whether it be DevOps days around the globe, DockerCon, DevOps Enterprise Summits, KubeCon, or CloudNativeCon,…
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…
Public Cloud: All Aboard the Hype Train!
We’ve all heard it before. “The cloud is the future!” “We need to move to the cloud!” “The on-premises data center is dead.” If you believe the analysts and marketing…
I Feel the Need for Speed—Evolving From a Loris to a Peregrine. How to Get Started With DevOps
In the IT industry, you’ll hear “I’ll sell you a DevOps; how much is it worth?” But the joke’s on you because you can’t sell (or buy) DevOps, as it…
Cloudy With a Chance of Governance: RBAC, Policy, and Improving Cloud Confidence
For many organizations, the decision of moving workloads to the cloud is all over but the shouting. The problem is that the shouting is pretty loud, and often centers around…