As the amount of network traffic, connected devices, and data exponentially rises every year, it becomes more and more difficult to keep track of things. This is a key reason why AIOps is slowly getting a bigger spotlight across all levels of the IT world. In this article, we’ll look closely at anomaly detection. What is…
A lot of times as administrators or infrastructure people we all too often get stuck “keeping the lights on”. What I mean by this, is we have our tools and scripts in place to monitor all of our services and databases, we have notification set up to alert us when they are down or experiencing trouble, and we have our…
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…
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