Whew! It’s been a year. We’re in the home stretch now. November saw us host THWACKcamp and those of us in the U.S. celebrated Thanksgiving. This is a time to reflect on the year and while it’s been particularly bad in some ways, we find we still have much to be thankful for. One thing we’re thankful for is this wonderful community. Thank you for another wonderful THWACKcamp and another year of great community contribution.
What might you have missed in November?
7 Solarwinds Tech Predictions for 2021 (German) featuring Leon Adato, Liz Beavers, Sascha Giese, Patrick Hubbard, Chrystal Taylor, and Thomas LaRock
THWACKcamp Day One Wrap-Up by Leon Adato
THWACKcamp Day Two Wrap-Up by Leon Adato
IT Life Hacks for Monitoring by Leon Adato
VoD: IT Life Hacks: Networking featuring Leon Adato
The Technology Companies Think They Can Live Without (and Why They’re Wrong) by Leon Adato
Announcing the 2020 December Writing Challenge: "Accentuate the Positive" by Leon Adato
Writing Challenge: Day Zero by Leon Adato
A Virtualized Monitoring Lab With SolarWinds and GNS3 by Leon Adato
ITR Zencast: Episode 42: The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything... at least in the ITR World. featuring Leon Adato
ITR Zencast: Episode 43: Part 2 of Anything Goes from last week... featuring Leon Adato
Application Stability Management vs. Application Performance Management – Who Needs Them and Why by Leon Adato
SolarWinds 2021 Predictions: Optimize Today's Tech for Tomorrow's Success by Leon Adato
SolarWinds 2021 Predictions: The IT Help Desk Evolves to Service Desk by Liz Beavers
Level Up Your IT Asset Management Strategy by Liz Beavers
Facilities and the Service Desk: There’s a Space for That! By Liz Beavers
IT Pros: The Next Generation — SolarWinds TechPod 034 featuring Liz Beavers
3 Last-Minute Tips From IT Pros Before the Black Friday Surge by Liz Beavers
The Perils of Legacy Technology: Why Public Sector Modernisation is Long Overdue by Sascha Giese
The Perfect World (Without Outages) by Sascha Giese
Postapocalyptic Networks by Sascha Giese
VoD: SolarWinds: Looking Ahead to a Post Pandemic Future featuring Sascha Giese
VoD: Reduce Risks and Expand Network Management Skills with Solarwinds featuring Sascha Giese
SolarWinds 2021 Predictions: Rethinking Multi-Cloud by Patrick Hubbard
VoD: “Mind the Gap” – Taking IT Operations Management From Ad Hoc to Insightful featuring Patrick Hubbard
Here’s How IT Can Prepare for What’s Coming Next by Patrick Hubbard
The Impact of an Economic Downturn on Digital Transformation by Patrick Hubbard
Do we really need a Blockchain? featuring Thomas LaRock
THWACKcamp! If you missed it completely, missed sessions, or just want to share any of the great sessions with coworkers, friends, bosses, or anyone else, we have videos on demand. We’re very thankful for the incredible team of over 150 people who help make it the event we all know and love. If you haven’t submitted feedback through the post-event survey, please do! We take your feedback into consideration every year, and as a result THWACKcamp evolves a bit every year. Here are the videos on demand with special mention of those with representation from your friendly neighborhood Head Geeks.
DAY ONE KICKOFF: WELCOME | SECURITY AND IT OPS – ON THE SAME PAGE
OPTIMIZE ALL THE THINGS
- Upgrades Made Easy featuring Chrystal Taylor
- Signal From the Noise: A Career Built by Monitoring featuring Leon Adato
- The Top 5 Common Problems With SQL Server (And How to Fix Them) featuring Thomas LaRock
- Service Desk Automation: Level Up! featuring Liz Beavers
- Custom Properties Revisited featuring Chrystal Taylor
- Custom Properties – The 2020 Edition featuring Chrystal Taylor
SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: MAKING YOUR IT TOOLS WORK TOGETHER
- Owning Your Inheritance: An Orion Zero to Hero Journey
- Intro to APIs for People Who Hate to Program featuring Leon Adato
- When a Map? Why a Map? How a Map? Why Orion Maps Are for Everyone.
- Crafting Alerts that Get Noticed
CONTROL GROWTH OR IT CONTROLS YOU
- The Changing Face of Database Performance Management featuring Thomas LaRock
- A Developer’s Perspective on Distributed SaaS Database Monitoring featuring Thomas LaRock
- Handle With Care: The Many Ways Modern Web Applications Can Break
DAY TWO KICKOFF: WELCOME | 2020 IT PERSPECTIVES
- CIO 2020 Hot Take: The Year of the IT Pro (Part I) featuring Patrick Hubbard
- CIO 2020 Hot Take: The Year of the IT Pro (Part II) featuring Patrick Hubbard
MONITORING IS FOR EVERYONE
- SD-WAN – What, How, and Why It’s Got Your Number featuring Patrick Hubbard
- The Perfect Lab - Cloud and GNS3 featuring Leon Adato and Sascha Giese
- Infrastructure Monitoring Status? It's Complicated. featuring Patrick Hubbard
- Monitoring for Managers – What You Need to Know to Sound Like a Monitoring Expert featuring Leon Adato
YOUR CAREER, YOUR RESPONSIBILITY, YOUR OPPORTUNITY
- How to "People" Better featuring Leon Adato
- Call Them "Soft Skills". One. More. Time. featuring Chrystal Taylor
- Avoiding IT Burnout: I Can != I Should featuring Sascha Giese
A DISCIPLINED APPROACH TO IT
- Reducing Vulnerability and Improving Compliance: Lessons Learned from Federal Customers
- Leading-Edge Deployments and Customer Innovations featuring Sascha Giese
- Threat Detectives featuring Thomas LaRock
- Orion Dashboard Tuning: Making the Message Match the Audience featuring Chrystal Taylor
What’s planned for December?
All month long, we invite you to participate in the December Writing Challenge here on THWACK. Look forward to a new post every day from different authors, including at least one from each of us. We will be participating in the comments as well where we can and look forward to the fun community activity.
December 4 – BrightTALK Summit: ITSM in 2021 featuring Liz Beavers speaking about putting employees first. Register to attend here.
December 8 – Products in Practice | Upgrade Success Series will be going on. While you won’t see our faces, we are big supporters of the new upgrade process (as seen during THWACKcamp) and wanted to support another initiative for helping you upgrade. Look forward to hearing real-life upgrade stories, getting your questions answered, and gaining a better understanding of your upgrade options. Chrystal Taylor will be hanging out in chat to share your stories and help answer questions.
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