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How to Endure Application Performance 24 x 7
Do you want your applications to perform at their best 24 x 7? Would you like to boost your organization’s productivity? Of course, everyone wants this, and here’s how: continuous monitoring of the application stack. Application stack?!! What’s that? Keep reading this article and I’ll walk you through the application…
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A Look at Systems' Role in the AppStack
As Joel Dolisy described in A Lap around Appstack, the first installment of the AppStack series, there are many components in the application stack including networking, storage, and computing resources. The computing resources include hypervisors, virtual machines, and physical machines that provide applications,…
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Three SMEs Share Their E’s For Cloud, Containers, Converged & SDDC
Many IT folks, including yours truly, made technology predictions for 2015. These predictions revolved around buzz worthy tech trends of now – hybrid cloud, software-defined data center, converged infrastructure, and containers. In a recent webinar, I hosted three techies to get their take on these tech constructs and…
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Hybrid Cloud and Software-Defined Data Center #syschat Recap
SolarWinds hosted a Twitter chat using #syschat to talk about hybrid cloud, software-defined data centers, converged infrastructure, and container technologies. We invited three distinguished technology SMEs: * Christopher Kusek (@cxi), pkguild.com * Dennis Smith (@DennisMSmith), TheDennisSmith.com * John Troyer…
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AppStack or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Eat More Cake
I like cake. Most people do, I suppose. And that’s why I use cake as an analogy in my classes and presentations whenever I talk about users, data, and performance. See, there are many, many layers of cake between users and their data. Some layers are thicker than others, some more delicious, and some more important. But…
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Microsoft Re-Ignited with SolarWinds and I.T. Feels So Good
Microsoft Ignite 2015 concluded its inaugural event with 20k+ attendees. The SolarWinds team united in the Windy City, Chicago, to provide the single point of truth in IT monitoring for the continuous delivery and integration era with Ignite attendees. SolarWinds also teamed up with Lifeboat Distribution and hosted a…
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A Geek's Guide to AppStack
What is the Geek's Guide to AppStack? Simply put, it's the central repository for all tech content involving the AppStack. If data and applications are important to you, the AppStack Dashboard is for you. The AppStack Management Bundle enables agility and scalability in monitoring and troubleshooting applications. And this…
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Simplify Performance Monitoring & Troubleshooting Across the IT Stack
It’s quite common to see end-users complaining about SharePoint being slow. It could be slow to load content, search pages, upload/download file, or any operation. Usually, it’s the website front-end where the user is facing the issue and complains about. But the root cause of the problem doesn’t always necessarily lie on…
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Application Troubleshooting: Making Molehills Out of Mountains
When: August 2005 Where: Any random organization experimenting with e-commerce Employee: I can’t access the CRM! We might lose a deal today if I can’t send that quote. Admin: Okay, check the WAN, check the LAN, and the server crm1.primary. Junior: All fine. Admin: Great, Restart the application service. That should solve…
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The IT Ninja Star: From Reactional to Silent & Deadly Transformational
This post is the result of an idea from and is co-authored by gerardodada, VP of Product Marketing. What is an IT Ninja? IT ninjas eliminate issues and incidents in data centers with their unique set of skills specifically remediation and troubleshooting. They are out of sight, out of mind, and only called on when the…