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Hybrid IT…It’s Trendy? — SolarWinds TechPod 069
The IT Trends report is released by SolarWinds every year with predictions on what will be the most popular trends in IT during the upcoming months. As we enter the second half of 2022, hosts Sean Sebring and Chris Bowie unpack the SolarWinds 2022 IT Trends report with Professor Dr. Sally Eves. The three discuss findings…
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SolarWinds IT Trends Report Insights With Keith Townsend — SolarWinds TechPod 027
The SolarWinds© IT Trends Report 2020 explores the evolving role of technology in business and the tech pros in charge of driving business performance. This year shows there’s less focus on emerging technologies like AI and edge and more focus on cloud computing, hybrid IT, and security. Tech pros also report increased…
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[De]Constructing Cloud With Mike Pfeiffer — SolarWinds TechPod 021
On this episode of SolarWinds TechPod, our host Patrick Hubbard, SolarWinds Head Geek, is joined by Mike Pfeiffer, a twenty-year tech industry veteran who’s worked for some of the largest technology companies in the world, including Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS). We’ll help you make sense of cloud and application…
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Down With Cloud First – A Look at the Shift from Organizations Adopting a Cloud-First Mentality and What They Do Today
Today’s public cloud hyperscalers, such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google, provide a whole host of platforms and services to enable organizations to deliver pretty much any workload you can imagine. However, they aren’t the be-all and end-all of an organization’s IT infrastructure needs. Not too long ago, the hype in the…
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SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2020: The Universal Language of IT
Show of hands: who thinks “hybrid IT” is new, shiny, and filled with wonderful possibilities? Judging by fresh survey data and ongoing conversations on THWACK, not many of you. We’re now years into an era marked by hybrid IT, where on-premises, cloud infrastructures, and SaaS occasionally live in harmony if the tech pros…
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How the Pandemic Impacted the Government’s Cloud Migration Plans
I really liked this piece by my SolarWinds® associate Brandon Shopp discussing how agencies remain firm believers in hybrid environments, but they face several obstacles. “Cloud-first” has been a government imperative for many years, but the pandemic usurped this strategy, making “cloud-now” a priority. The results have…
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Hybrid IT and Virtualized Workloads Preparing for a Shift to Microsoft Azure
I really liked this piece by my SolarWinds® associate Brandon Shopp discussing how to prepare for a move to Azure, how to monitor performance, and how to control costs. Though government agencies continue to move to the cloud to accelerate their digital transformation plans, the majority have embraced a hybrid IT…
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Multipath World
Picture a network—any enterprise network. What do you see? In almost every case, in almost every environment, you’ll find hubs and spokes of hubs and spokes all the way down. For network engineers, their focus may be even more narrow: innumerable clients, lots of switches, and fewer routers connected to a core. This…
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Cloud Native, You Keep Using Those Words
Ask a hundred IT pros and their managers what “cloud native” is, and you’ll get as many different definitions. In part it’s because public cloud providers (PCPs) seek to provide all things to all IT teams, but it’s also because each organization has different goals for cloud. If I could get away with it, I’d enclose cloud…
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Three Ways Federal Agencies Can Manage and Secure Their Hybrid Data Centers
As hybrid environments become more popular, federal IT teams are faced with managing and securing their on-premises and cloud infrastructures, while minimizing costs—and there’s no single tool or approach that can solve all these problems. With this in mind, let’s look at three ways federal agencies can address these…