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Efficiently managing the performance of complex cloud environments requires more than monitoring and alerting Today’s cloud environments rely on microservices, service meshes, containers, and orchestration tools and are too complex for traditional tools to measure and monitor performance metrics effectively. The number of…
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…
IT pros now have the added responsibilities of having to know how to troubleshoot performance issues in apps and servers that are hosted remotely, in addition to monitoring and managing servers and apps that are hosted locally. This is where tools like Windows Remote Management (WinRM) come handy because it allows you to…
If you’re a SolarWinds customer, there’s a good chance you’ve seen a video of a Head Geek, passionately urging you to upgrade to the latest and greatest version Right Now. And that Head Geek is likely me. If the speaker has TV anchor hair and boundless upgrade enthusiasm, it’s almost certainly me. In dozens of videos,…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article on hybrid IT and how to maintain visibility to performance. We’re also discussing leveraging automation to respond to threats. Choosing which providers to use—let alone whether to choose a public or private cloud approach in…
By Joe Kim, SolarWinds EVP, Engineering and Global CTO As the roles and responsibilities of government IT professionals continue to evolve, these professionals will want to focus on investing in new skills in several key areas to better their chances for success. Much of this evolution is being driven by agencies’…
By Joe Kim, SolarWinds EVP, Engineering and Global CTO Agencies rely heavily on their applications, so I thought I’d share a blog written earlier this year by my SolarWinds colleague, Patrick Hubbard. IT administration is changing, or expanding, to be precise. We can no longer think of just “our part” of IT, “our part” of…
By Joe Kim, SolarWinds EVP, Engineering and Global CTO The technology that government end-users rely on is moving beyond the bounds of on-premises infrastructures, yet employees still hold IT departments accountable for performance. According to a recent SolarWinds “IT is Everywhere” survey of government IT professionals,…
There is a dramatic shift underway in federal IT on a scale that is rarely seen more than once every decade or so. Computing environments are evolving from traditional on-premises-only to hybrid strategies that migrate some infrastructure to the cloud, while keeping some critical systems onsite. According to SolarWinds’ IT…
Hi y’all! I’m the new product marketing manager for SolarWinds SAM – Server and Application Monitor. For the last few years, the products I’ve worked on have been focused on storage infrastructure and backups. Now that I’m part of the SolarWinds team I’ll be concentrating on monitoring infrastructures; the hardware and…
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