By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article on critical cyber roles within the federal government that require improved IT skills and stronger leadership. The public sector faces an incredible number of cybersecurity threats and given that the government houses some of…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Mav Turner. He explores aspects of maintaining performance and security of the Army’s Command Post Computing Environment. The modern military landscape requires a network portable enough to be deployed…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article from my colleague Mav Turner. He offers a good overview of edge computing and offers suggestions on overcoming challenges. I like the idea of using technology like this to reduce latency. Edge computing has become a critical…
As I explained in previous posts on building a culture of data protection, we in the technology world must embrace data protection by design: To Reward, We Must Measure. How do we fix this? We start rewarding people for data protection activities. To reward people, we need to measure their deliverables. An enterprise-wide…
We've talked about a lot in this series about DevOps Tooling: * Start Your DevOps Journey by Looking at the Value You Add * Why Choosing a One-Size-Fits-All Solution Won’t Work * How to Choose the Right Tools in Your DevOps Toolchain * How To Prevent Tool Sprawl in Your DevOps Toolchain In this installment, we'll talk…
As the public cloud continues to grow in popularity, it’s started to penetrate our private data centers and realize hybrid IT. More companies are adopting a hybrid IT model, and I keep hearing that we need to forget everything we know about infrastructure and start over when it comes to the public cloud. It's very…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s a helpful article on how to achieve your cloud-first objectives for cloud-based email. Email is a critical application for government, and there are several suggestions for improving reliability. The U.K. government’s Cloud First policy mandates the…
Here’s an interesting blog about the Internet of Things and battlefield advances. The internet of things (IoT) is advancing into the theater of war and becoming the Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT). Planning for the IoBT The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is devising ways to turn inanimate and innocuous objects,…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article written by my colleague Jim Hansen. It seems that our BYO challenges are not over, and Jim offers some great steps agencies can take to help with these issues. In 2017, the Department of Defense (DoD) released a policy memo…
Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Mav Turner about the complexities of server and application management. Hyperconvergence makes the old question of, “is it the network or the application?” harder to answer; good thing we have tools to help.…
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