Home this week and getting ready for Microsoft Ignite next week in Orlando. If you're at Ignite, please stop by the booth and say hello. I love talking data with anyone. As always, here's a bunch of links I found interesting. Enjoy! Microsoft beats Amazon to win the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract The most…
Modern application development requires more work to ensure the development path and the data it produces are fully in sync, secure, optimized and error-free. This responsibility has increasingly fallen upon application developers. They’re being asked to double as database administrators to maintain fluidity in the process…
$634,000,000 if you're the US government - and the darned thing doesn't even work! (I assure you, there is nothing more I'd like to do than rant about the government and healthcare insurance. Sadly, this is not the forum. However, I will vent by discussing the technical and financial angles of the "Obamacare" website…
One million elements per SolarWinds Orion instance. One million. Let that sink in for a moment. A new scalability milestone that’s surprising even to me. I’ve seen some amazing things since joining SolarWinds in 2007 as its products have scaled along with its users to address the challenges of businesses of any size. And…
When last we talked, we visited about why UX testing at SolarWinds is such a vital component to the way we do business. In short, we believe if users are happy and successful with our products, then we as a company will also be happy and successful. Today, I wanted to share two concrete examples of how our products changed…
IT pros now have the added responsibilities of having to know how to troubleshoot performance issues in apps and servers that are hosted remotely, in addition to monitoring and managing servers and apps that are hosted locally. This is where tools like Windows Remote Management (WinRM) come handy because it allows you to…
Also "SaaS" Can Become "PaaS" If You're Not Careful The PCI Security Standard Council finally released its PCI DSS Cloud Computing Guidelines this month, and the Guidelines are not kind to Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, or to Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions that behave like PaaS. In the document, the…
Cost plays a factor in most IT decisions. Whether the costs are hardware- or software-related, understanding how the tool’s cost will affect the bottom line is important. Typically, it’s the engineer’s or administrator’s task to research tools and/or hardware to fit the organization's needs both fiscally and…
Capacity Planning 101 The objective of Capacity Planning is to adequately anticipate current and future capacity demand (resource consumption requirements) for a given environment. This helps to accurately evaluate demand growth, identify growth drivers and proactively trigger any procurement activities (purchase,…
Happy New Year! May your 2023 be precedented and uneventful – or at least better than the previous year. I hope you enjoyed some rest and relaxation in your holiday celebrations. Things were pretty quiet on the Head Geek front as we enjoyed the time off and crafted some things to prepare for the new year. We look forward…
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