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They say trust is like a vase: you can fix it once broken, but it’s never quite the same. According to this year’s SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2017: Portrait of a Hybrid IT Organization, 95 percent of North American organizations have migrated critical applications and IT infrastructure to the cloud over the past 12…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s another interesting article with suggestions about how agencies might approach legacy application modernization and cloud adoption using MGT Act funds. Picking the “best” apps and systems will certainly increase success rates, and SolarWinds systems…
Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Brandon Shopp about emerging technology adoption in fed. It’s easy to get caught up with the hype, but our IT Trends survey results seem more grounded. Exciting new technologies like artificial intelligence,…
By Paul Parker, SolarWinds Federal & National Government Chief Technologist Artificial intelligence (AI) is coming. Contrary to the stuff of science fiction, however, AI has the potential to have a positive impact within the federal IT community. The adoption of AI will likely be the result of the adoption of hybrid and…
Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Brandon Shopp discussing the American Rescue Plan and how to leverage it to help meet your organization’s modernization objectives. Last summer, federal agencies responded to a request from Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) for insights into their IT modernization strategies and how…
Here’s a blog that reviews strategies for managing networks that are growing in size and complexity. Federal IT pros understand the challenge agencies face in trying to manage an ever-growing, increasingly complex network environment. While federal IT networks are becoming more distributed, the demand for security and…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article on containers, which are growing in importance to our government customers. Containers play an important role in scaling cloud applications and they need to be monitored. Hybrid IT and cloud computing are completely changing…
There is no getting away from it: the word “cloud” is a buzzword in the IT industry. Maybe it’s graduated onto something more. Why Cloud? I remember being asked this exact question during a technical presentation I got drafted into very last minute with a well-known, high street brand. During the infrastructure pitch, I…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting blog on skills needed by federal IT pros. My team and I run into hybrid IT more and more frequently, and it’s good for clients to gain these needed skills. It seems the federal IT world has gone hybrid, keeping some applications…
Hybrid IT can create issues for IT operations. Here's an article from my colleague, Mav Turner, that suggests ways to keep things running smoothly. Trying to find the root cause of IT problems can often feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. Worse, there are often multiple haystacks, and sometimes the haystack you…
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