With over 20 years in the IT field and spending the last five-ish years working specifically as the “monitoring guy” for a major U.S.-based retailer; I’ve attended numerous conferences, but none compared to THWACKcamp. This two-day virtual conference is like no other I’ve attended either as a viewer or a presenter.…
It’s almost time for THWACKcamp once again! As with every year, it will be completely free and 100% virtual. I don’t know about the rest of you in the community, but I’m fired up to chat, network, and learn together once again. Before I go too far into nostalgia (check out Kevin and I on TechPod doing just that) I’m…
It all started on October 10, 2012. This was the date of the very first THWACKcamp™. In this, the inaugural piece of awesomeness, SolarWinds presented 15 30-minute sessions, showing the world how great a totally free, community-driven, virtual conference can be. Tackling subjects from the then-new bring your own device…
THWACKcamp™ 2022 is a wrap, and the consensus is in: this was our best THWACKcamp yet. We really couldn’t have asked for better participation and engagement from our global community of technology professionals. Now in its tenth year, THWACKcamp has continued to grow and serve as an annual milestone event that captures the…
More data != more insights More data isn’t always better. A point of view that may seem out of place from a company where collecting metrics is a major component of the value we deliver, but hear me out. We (as technologists, as problem solvers, as humans striving for improvement) are deeply ensconced in a “death by data”…
On October 12, we’ll take a deep dive into SolarWinds® IT service management (ITSM) and IT asset management (ITAM) so you can expand your mastery of the service desk and enhance your organization’s service management strategy, design, and delivery. From foundational configuration considerations and leveling up your…
Join us for two (1-hour) sessions as we detail how you can leverage the SolarWinds® Orion® Platform at various stages in your project to create shortcuts, deliver maintainable solutions, and cut down on your workload overall, allowing you to free up your time for the things that matter. Session One – November 11, 10 a.m.…
It’s just around the corner – registration for THWACKcamp 2022 opens on January 4. This 10th THWACKcamp celebrates a decade of IT exploration and expert insights: still 100% free, still 100% virtual, still 100% brain-engaging. Are we excited? You bet your managed switch we’re excited! THWACKcamp 2022 will mark the 10th…
Among IT professionals, the one resource you can never recover is time. Regardless of how you move virtual guests between hypervisors to regain storage or how often you tweak a service to salvage some CPU cycles, the time spent doing these and other tasks is gone forever. Seasoned IT professionals know the only way to…
Table of Contents * Organizing our Collective Knowledge* Alerts * Custom HTML * Custom Queries * Something Old, Something New* Modern Dashboards * Scripts * Sharing is Caring* Achievements * Content Exchange Links The superpower of THWACK is the shared experience of the community members. There is no one right way to learn…
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