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This year has changed the way we work—from our roles and responsibilities to the way we interact and socialize with others. Responsibilities in IT were already shifting with instances of data center/IT role convergence on the rise. The SolarWinds 2020 IT Trends Report: The Universal Language of IT revealed security and…
Happy Father's Day to all the IT Professionals out there! Colton's Dad is a SysAdmin, so we asked him to tell us exactly what he thinks his Dad does at work every day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHLlSGQ7Fhc
They say love is a battlefield, but as any SysAdmin knows—so is the data center! With an endless supply of “evil villains,” like zombie VMs, data loss, performance bottlenecks, application downtime, service outages and more, that could be lurking in the dark corners of a data center, you SysAdmins are the first line of…
The response today is “Whoa-oh!” I’m walking on sunshine You all know how it goes: you do the tireless work for 364 days of the year, but today is your day and we’re celebrating it here on THWACK. If you’ve been living your best life on a sunny beach somewhere (or potentially avoiding the UV rays under a pile of tickets),…
When you started as a systems administrator, you might have connected servers, swapped out hard drives, run down spare components, and dragged around a crash cart. Those days might not be completely over, but the chances you physically interact with your systems grow smaller and smaller each day. In an era of…
While it may not be circled in red on many people’s calendars, SysAdmin Day holds a special place in the hearts of many IT professionals. Certainly, because everyone likes to be appreciated for what they do, but more so because SysAdmin day is a chance for tech practitioners not only to recognize and celebrate, but to also…
Paul Guido has worn several hats during his IT journey. But now he’s made the leap from deep–dive individual contributor to managing teams of the same kind of IT pros he was (and still is). There are lessons in that journey – not just for IT practitioners considering the next step of their career, but also managers who…
Hang around with IT folks for anything longer than your typical stand-up meeting and you’re likely to hear some variation of “Managers! Am I right?” Snark aside, as folks who design, deploy, and maintain monitoring solutions, we’ve got a choice: we can continue to dismiss and diminish people who don’t know about our…
SysAdmin Day is upon us, you SysAdmaniacs! It’s your day! We know how you may feel underappreciated at times throughout the year, so we went all out and created a board game in your honor. That’s right. Now, after another annoying day resetting passwords and resolving bottlenecks caused by I/O-heavy apps, you can unwind…
This may be a dumb question but ... I am trying to register an instance for dpa but when I enter the sysadmin creds, the same ones I normally use for other SolarWinds activities, and I get the following message below "Error Message: Invalid user and/or password [error=java.sql.SQLException: Login failed for user" kind of…
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