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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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[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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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…
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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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Examining Digital Transformation
In this blog series, we’ve been looking at various methods of utilisation with cloud infrastructure. While cloud adoption can be beneficial to almost any organisation, change for change’s sake can be costly and bad for business. Simply lifting and shifting applications from your on-premises server room or data centre to…
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Assessing Your Agency’s Cloud Readiness
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Brandon Shopp about the government’s renewed interest in cloud. He offers considerations to help improve agency readiness and prepare for eventual migration. A recent report regarding the modernization of…