Those of us who make our living in tech love to hate (or at least poke fun at) managers. But the truth is, it does us no good to dismiss and diminish people who don’t know our discipline like we do. Instead, we should offer to educate and inform. In this session, we'll answer the technical questions managers—those folks…
Modern infrastructure technology offers truly innovative operations options, but its unintended consequences are becoming a headache for many IT teams. Infrastructure vendors have delivered revolutionary applications and services, but they increasingly dump visibility and manageability gaps into the enigmatic bucket of…
One of the challenges monitoring engineers face is building a lab that's both representative of their environment and not a complete mirror image of production, which is functionally impractical, unsupportable, and impossibly expensive. In this session, Head Geeks Sascha Giese and Leon Adato show you how to build a lab…
Complex, statically defined network device monitoring is increasingly moving from physical to software-defined networks. With the rising adoption of SD-WAN technologies, we're left with more questions than answers. To get to the bottom of our SD-WAN queries, we surveyed hundreds of users to clarify hot topics with…
In part one of our candid discussion with real-world CIOs, you had a chance to learn how the smart work of IT professionals, managers, and executive leadership made 2020 a surprisingly successful year for many IT teams. In part 2, you’ll hear from a different set of CIOs representing teams that each support multiple…
If you’re an IT professional, you likely already know 2020 has been a trying—but also potentially outstanding—year for IT departments. But how often do you get a chance to have a casual conversation with your CIO about why your expertise, hustle, and hard work is important to the business overall? Many businesses have been…
Web applications have evolved over the years to become more robust, more powerful, and more important to businesses. As part of this evolution, web applications have also increased in complexity, which means they can fail in far more numerous and surprising ways. In this candid technology…
This session provides a closer look at SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor through the eyes of a developer and covers the features that resonate with software developers—and why. Learn how software development practices are shaped by the performance metrics tracked uniquely by DPM.
Database Administrators (DBAs) are no longer the sole owners of database tuning and optimization. At the same time, hybrid IT and cloud-native applications are changing the face of traditional database design, management, and monitoring. How does an old-school DBA wrap their head around a distributed cloud-based…
You may be thinking, “I don’t need a map. I already know how everything’s put together and how it’s doing.” And you might be right. But you know who you make maps for? Not you. They’re for other people so they can look at them INSTEAD of bothering you. “But maps are a pain to build,” you might say. Nope—they’re easier than…
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