Operational Resilience

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.

Keeping user documentation accurate and up to date is a critical part of delivering great software. But what happens when your processes for publishing that documentation are slow, error-prone, or lack the visibility needed to keep everything running smoothly?

SolarWinds has released its 2025 IT Trends Report, Fragile to Agile: The State of Operational Resilience. In partnership with UserEvidence, the report surveyed over 600 IT leaders across nine countries to explore how organizations define, measure, and build resilience in an increasingly complex IT landscape.

This year, the SolarWinds World Tour is visiting 23 cities around the globe. Along the way, it’s delivering product demonstrations, technical presentations, and valuable face time with both customers and partners.

The SolarWinds IT Trends Report is an annual, independent report exploring the challenges and strategies IT teams face to achieve operational resilience. The 2025 report was created in partnership with UserEvidence, who surveyed over 600 IT leaders. The survey focused on how respondents perceive their organization’s operational resilience and the underlying issues that affect it.

Last week we hosted the first of our three-part Observability Masterclass series. In this initial session, we explored the concept of unified visibility, a crucial aspect of observability.

Operational resilience is more than uptime. It’s the ability to respond, recover, and adapt to the daily pressures of complex systems, growing demands, and shifting priorities. For many IT teams, resilience isn’t out of reach, but it is harder to achieve than it should be.

It’s no secret that today’s IT pros struggle to maintain visibility into dispersed and interdependent IT environments. But there is a way forward.