Whew! We’ve made it to the end of the calendar year, folks. November was a whirlwind of events, and for those of us in the US, it meant giant turkey dinners. In case you missed it, we also released the State of Database report, which highlights the growing gap between what DBAs are responsible for and the resources they have to manage those demands. As 2025 draws to a close, I want to say a hearty thank you to the THWACK community for your support for yet another year. Keep being the amazing community you are! Happy holidays from SolarWinds to all of you.
What Might You Have Missed in November?
Best Zendesk Competitors and Alternatives in 2025 by Simon Abrahams
Top 16 Alternatives for Splunk in 2025 by Simon Abrahams
Top 11 Free Alternatives for FTP Server Software for Windows in 2025 by Simon Abrahams
November 23 Release for SolarWinds Service Desk: Gen AI, Process Integrations, and more! by Joey Brown
Gartner Says ‘AI Will Touch All IT Work’ By 2030, And Admins Face a Rocky Road to Adapt, featuring Cullen Childress
Google Cloud Platform Curious? Let’s Explore What Unified Observability Can Do by Peter DiStefano
How OpenTelemetry Is Redefining Application Performance Monitoring by Peter DiStefano
Recovering From the Prolonged Government Shutdown featuring Travis Galloway
M&M: Ben Mangrum - The Comedy of Computation featuring Andy Garibay and Ben Mangrum
Don’t Demonise Data Silos: Align, Don’t Eliminate by Kevin Kline
Survey Finds One in Three DBAs Eye Career Move as Demands on Role Increase, featuring Kevin Kline
SolarWinds Named in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Management by Lauren Okruch
New SolarWinds Report: Gen AI Cuts ITSM Incident Response Time featuring Lauren Okruch
Forged in Fire, Focused on the Future by Sudhakar Ramakrishna
Migrating from Opsgenie? Here’s the Incident Response Solution You Actually Need by Sanj Sandhu
Honoring Veteran Voices at SolarWinds featuring Tim Schnelle, Travis Galloway, Greg Fetterhoff, and Dillon Townsel
TechPod: AFK: The Only Status You Need When AFW featuring Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor
VoD: Security Event Manager 2025.4 Update – Multiple Dashboards featuring Chrystal Taylor
See the Future of IT at MS Ignite! by Chrystal Taylor
VoD: Academy Video | Self-Hosted: Architecture, Deployment, and Network Discovery featuring Eric Villa
What’s Planned for December?
We’ll be at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, NV, December 1 – 5 at Booth #1380. Join Sudhakar Ramakrishna, Tim Brown, Brian Goldfarb, Peter DiStefano, Barb Huelskamp, and more on site. On December 4, Peter DiStefano will be giving a Lightning Talk on From On-Prem to On-Point: Safelite’s AWS Cloud Observability Journey at 2 p.m. PT.
On December 4, you’ll find SolarWinds at ALAMO ACE 2025 at Booth #148. Stop by to learn how our public sector team can help you.
Join us virtually on December 10 at 10 a.m. CT for 'Your Opsgenie Migration is the Path to Proactive Reliability,' featuring Sanj Sandhu and Chase Roohms.
We’re looking forward to TechPod on December 16, when our hosts, Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor, will once again be joined by Andy Garibay for a very merry TechPod.
