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As part of our ongoing mini-series on Monitoring for Managers, Head Geek and database aficionado Kevin Kline (@kekline) teams up with fellow Head Geek Leon Adato (@adatole) to break down the essential things about databases and database monitoring a manager might need to know.…
Supporting legacy applications is problematic for several reasons. These aging systems are becoming increasingly obsolete and difficult to maintain. They use outdated software languages and unsupported hardware parts—some as much as 50 years old. As they age, they introduce cybersecurity risk and are less effective at…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article on some of the security concerns that come along with containers. I was surprised to hear that a third of our customers are planning to implement containers in the next 12 months. The rate of change in IT never seems to slow…
By Paul Parker, SolarWinds Federal & National Government Chief Technologist Federal IT professionals spend a lot of time working on optimizing their IT infrastructures, so it can understandably be frustrating when agency policies or cultural issues get in the way. Unfortunately, responses to a recent SolarWinds North…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article on critical cyber roles within the federal government that require improved IT skills and stronger leadership. The public sector faces an incredible number of cybersecurity threats and given that the government houses some of…
I just found myself replying to someone on another forum and giving them advice about learning styles, so I thought I would bring it up here. In these days of sensory and information overload, how does one determine what information to take in and what to leave aside? And how does one actually take in said information?…
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