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Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Brandon Shopp where he discusses the Army’s new training curriculum and the impacts on network and bandwidth. The U.S. Army is undergoing a major technology shift affecting how soldiers prepare for battle. Core to…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article from my colleague Mav Turner. He offers a good overview of edge computing and offers suggestions on overcoming challenges. I like the idea of using technology like this to reduce latency. Edge computing has become a critical…
All too often, federal IT personnel misconstrue software as being able to make their agency compliant with various regulations. It can’t – at least not by itself. Certainly, software can help you achieve compliance, but it should only be viewed as a component of your efforts. True and complete compliance involves defining,…
Today’s federal IT infrastructure is built in layers of integrated blocks, and users have developed a heavy reliance on well-functioning application stacks. App stacks are composed of application code and all of the software and hardware components needed to effectively and reliably run the applications. These components…
The incorrect use of personal devices or the inadvertent corruption of mission-critical data by a government employee can turn out to be more than simple accidents. These activities can escalate into threats that can result in national security concerns. These types of accidents happen more frequently than one might expect…
Today’s users demand access to easy-to-use applications even though the IT landscape has become a complex mishmash of end-user devices, connectivity methods, and siloed IT organizations, some of which contain further siloes for applications, databases and back-end storage. These multiple tiers of complexity, combined with…
Regardless of which new technologies federal network administrators adopt, they will always need dependable, consistent, and highly available solutions that keep their networks running -- constantly. Sadly, that’s not always the reality. Last year's survey of federal IT professionals by my company, SolarWinds, indicated…
Tomorrow is the first day of the Caribbean hurricane season, and that means: named storms, power outages and the need for IT emergency preparedness. And now is a great time to make sure your disaster toolbox is well stocked, before a major calamity strikes. And as a federal IT manager, you always have to be prepared for…
As government agencies shift their focus to virtualization, automation and orchestration, cloud computing, and IT-as-a-Service, those who were once comfortable in their position as jacks-of-all-IT-trades are being forced to choose a new career paths to remain relevant. Today, there’s very little room for “IT generalists.”…
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