Operational Resilience

In a recent article for APM Digest, Solutions Engineering Manager Sean Sebring explores the complexities behind achieving genuine operational resilience in modern IT organizations.

In the race to modernize IT operations, many organizations have followed a predictable pattern: as infrastructure becomes more complex and tool sprawl surges, so does the tooling meant to manage it. More cloud; more dashboards. More apps; more telemetry. More vendors; more silos.

This Fall, the SolarWinds World Tour continues its journey to 23 cities around the globe. Along the way, we meet with IT professionals, customers, and partners to explore how IT is evolving. This time we link in with chats about AI, automation, and how customers value the beauty of simplicity.

In times of uncertainty, federal agencies often adopt a prudent stance toward long-term IT planning. Strategic investments in enterprise-wide technology initiatives, while critical to mission success, can be delayed or disrupted, not due to a lack of importance, but because the broader operating environment may not appear stable enough to sustain them.

Welcome to our blog series showcasing members of the SolarWinds Public Sector team. In this post, we chat with Tim Schnelle, Senior Staff for Revenue Operations.

On 20 August 2025, AWS Summit Johannesburg brought together cloud professionals from across the region to explore innovation, share ideas, and address some of IT’s toughest challenges. In a memorable session, SolarWinds Global Tech Evangelist Sascha Giese unpacked the power of OpenTelemetry (OTel) and its role in delivering actionable observability for AWS and hybrid environments.

CTO Krishna Sai joins the Get With IT Podcast to talk operational resilience, responsible AI use, and much more.

Operational resilience is built on the ability to anticipate disruptions, respond quickly, and maintain performance under pressure. For IT teams, that capability begins with observability not as a buzzword, but as a strategic necessity.

2025’s top IT headache isn’t just complexity, it’s fragmented visibility across sprawling on-prem, cloud, and edge environments.

When people talk about hybrid IT, they often mean flexible office setups. However, in the public sector, hybrid means a lot more.