At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, military IT leaders raced to expand network capacity and upgrade infrastructure to ensure it could meet their mission-critical workloads and support telework. Their…
How Eliminating Network Choke Points Can Help the DoD Plan for the Next Wave of the Pandemic
Tweaking Your Monitoring Strategy for a Seamless End-User Experience
Technology and end users have an almost dichotomous relationship; as technology gets more complex, end users expect a more seamless experience. At the same time, end users are also looking…
Army Network Optimization Could Help Training
The U.S. Army is undergoing a major technology shift affecting how soldiers prepare for battle. Core to the Army’s modernization effort is the implementation of a Synthetic Training Environment (STE)…
Delivering a Great User Experience Must Be a Top Priority
While much has been done about the need to modernize federal IT networks, little has been written about the importance of optimizing the user experience for government employees. Yet modernization…
Managing People, Not Devices — SolarWinds TechPod 007
For managed services providers (MSPs), reactive services came first. Then device management. And, now, it’s time to talk about managing people. Join David Weeks, SolarWinds MSP director of sales, and…
Applications Aren’t an Island
In my last post, I talked about microservices and how their deep connection can offer a quality application. Now, I want to move up a layer. Not only between microservices, but…
Adopting a Distributed Tracing Architecture
In a distributed tracing architecture, we need to define the microservices that work inside it. We also need to distinguish the “component” behavior from the “user” behavior and experience—similar words,…