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You can’t manage what you can’t monitor and observe. Join us for our next SolarWinds Day virtual event on February 28, where we’ll share new features and functionality across our entire observability portfolio. You’ll: * Learn how SolarWinds federates monitoring and observability of your entire technology stack from your…
With SolarWinds, IT pros are discovering a smarter way to manage apps, servers, databases, and hybrid clouds. The shift starts here. It can be a struggle to find the right mix of services for applications and any technology professional with portions of their workloads in someone else’s data center is going to need a game…
Modern application development requires more work to ensure the development path and the data it produces are fully in sync, secure, optimized and error-free. This responsibility has increasingly fallen upon application developers. They’re being asked to double as database administrators to maintain fluidity in the process…
Submitted for your approval; a story of cloud horrors. One of performance issues impacting production. Where monthly cloud billing began spiraling out of control. The following story is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. During my consulting career, I’ve encountered companies at many different…
Introduction Much of the dialog surrounding cloud these days seems centered on multi-cloud. Multi-cloud this, multi-cloud that—have we so soon forgotten about the approach that addresses the broadest set of needs for businesses beginning their transition from the traditional data center? Friends, I’m talking about good-old…
In this blog series, we’ve been looking at various methods of utilisation with cloud infrastructure. While cloud adoption can be beneficial to almost any organisation, change for change’s sake can be costly and bad for business. Simply lifting and shifting applications from your on-premises server room or data centre to…
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated - The On Premises Data Center Mark Twain As I mentioned in my previous post, the hype cycle has the on-premises data center dead to rights. Public cloud is the future and there’s no turning back. When you step back and investigate the private cloud space, you’d be surprised.…
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both -Robert Frost At this point in our “Battle of the Clouds” journey, we’ve seen what the landscape of the various clouds looks like, cut through some of the fog around cloud, and glimpsed what failing to plan can do to your cloud migration. So, where does…
We’ve all heard it before. “The cloud is the future!” “We need to move to the cloud!” “The on-premises data center is dead.” If you believe the analysts and marketing departments, public cloud is the greatest thing to happen to the data center since virtualization. But, is it true? Could public cloud be the savior of the…
In my final post in this series, I want to talk about some things that we have not touched on already and how it relates to what we’ve already discussed. First, let’s take a quick recap of what we’ve covered. In post 1, we talked about the pace at which people are moving to the public cloud. You need to do your homework…
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