Happy New Year! I hope you’ve had a restful and recharging holiday. Now is when we begin the work of turning our plans for 2025 into reality. It’s an inspiring time, but January can also feel challenging as we come back to work from our holidays. So remember, keep up the positivity and have patience with one another as we embark on new adventures.
What Might You Have Missed in December?
How GenAI is Democratizing IT Service Management by Abhijit Banerjee
Observability is the Hidden Catalyst for Transforming Corporate Culture by Abhijit Banerjee
From Data to People: How Observability is Reshaping Corporate Culture by Cullen Childress
The KPI Commandments: A Guide to Setting Targets in IT by Brad Cline
SolarWinds Web Help Desk 12.8.4 is Now Available by Avadhut Deshpande
5 Things We Learned at KubeCon 2024 by Peter DiStefano
Happy Holidays From Your THWACK Community by Kristen Piña Flores
Part1 - Tackling PostgreSQL Performance, Configuration Optimization by Ewen Fortune
Part 2 - Tackling PostgreSQL Performance, Query Optimization by Ewen Fortune
Building Trust in AI - How the Australian Government Can Set the Standard by Travis Galloway
More Service Desk Agents Aren’t The Answer by RJ Gazarek
The 4 Pillars of Database Observability by RJ Gazarek
Less Than a Fifth of IT Professionals Say Cloud Infrastructure Meets Their Needs featuring Sascha Giese
AI-Washing: The Hype About Artificial Intelligence by Sascha Giese (German)
VoD: Getting to Grips With Observability Requirements and Understanding the Value featuring Sascha Giese
How to Attain Deep Network Device Coverage with SolarWinds Observability SaaS by Tony Johnson
Managing Hybrid IT Environments in the Great Cloud Repatriation by Kevin Kline
SolarWinds Service Desk 2024 Release Round-up by Stella Leibovich
Unlock SolarWinds Service Desk Insights Faster with Pre-Built Power BI Templates by Stella Leibovich
Exciting Enhancements to Process Integrations by Stella Leibovich
Four Reasons Paessler PRTG Customers Should Consider Switching to SolarWinds by Abigail Norman
Is Your Organization Ready for the New DORA Cybersecurity Framework? by Kritin Paddington
SolarWinds Voices: Sudhakar Ramakrishna on InformationWeek
TechPod: Ghosts of Tech Past and Future featuring Sean Sebring, Chrystal Taylor, and Andy Garibay
AI Dominates, Infrastructure Adapts: What IT can Expect in 2025 by Chrystal Taylor
Predicting the Evolving Threat Landscape for 2025 featuring Chrystal Taylor
What’s Planned for January?
You can look forward to TechPod on January 14, when hosts Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor will hold a philosophical conversation about artificial intelligence with Doug Bennett of Amazon Web Services. *Author's note: This episode has been delayed, but will be released soon.*
Excited to explore the new updates and features in Solar Bytes – a great start to 2025....!!!!
Good Stuff for a New Year...
This year is going to be a good year. I have also found the best possible use for AI, and that is to recreated a couple of classic BBC Radio Comedies
Just a minute
I am sorry I haven't a Clue.
Both were unsurpassable in the 70's & 80'sbut unfortunately many of the regular guests grew old and died and the younger ones that replaced them have just not quite captured the ambience of the originals. Using AI we could re-create the voices of the core regulars, get the timing correct and then have 1 physical new guest to play alongside the AI replica's. I miss Humphrey Littleton as chair of I'm sorry I haven't a clue, he was a jazz musician and his timing was without peer. I recommend you look some of the older episodes up on BBC sounds or YouTube, avoid the failed TV version of Just A Minute, it did not work, these shows were for radio only.
Happy laughs for 2025
Happy new year, Chrystal! Hope you and yours had a great break, and you got to spend time doing exactly what you wanted to do To the THWACKsters, 2025 is going to be a challenge for many, but whatever happens, THWACK and your friendly neighbourhood monitoring MVP maestros will be here to help!
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