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There are many configuration management, deployment, and orchestration tools available, ranging from open-source tools to automation engines. Ansible is one such software stack available to cover all the bases, and seems to be gaining more traction by the day. In this post, we’ll look at how this simple but powerful tool…
By Joe Kim, SolarWinds Chief Technology Officer In World War I, the U.S. Army used lumbering GMC trucks for the first time in combat, which was revolutionary for its time. Today, these vehicles would be considered slow, cumbersome, and archaic in comparison to today's fast, powerful and, most of all, constantly connected…
The term "double bind" refers to an instance where a person receives two or more conflicting messages, each of them negating the other. Addressing one message creates a failure in the other, and vice-versa. A double bind is an unsolvable puzzle resulting in a no-win situation. As a federal IT professional, you’ve probably…
Application performance management continues to be so hard because applications are becoming increasingly complex, relying on multiple third-party components and services that are all added to the already-complicated modern application delivery chain that includes the applications and the backend IT infrastructure that…
Data center consolidations have been a priority for years, with the objectives of combatting server sprawl, centralizing and standardizing storage, and streamlining application management and establishing shared services across multiple agencies. But, consolidation has created challenges for federal IT professionals,…
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