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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…
Dare to Thrive is the theme at VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) 2015. And that theme is reflected by the BIG online event, the new beginning, and the PEX experience. Announcement First off, there is VMware's Online Launch Event on February 2nd. Tech buzzwords like software defined data centers (SDDC) software defined…
Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Brandon Shopp with ideas for improving security at the DoD by finding vulnerabilities and continuously monitoring agency infrastructure. An early 2019 report from the Defense Department Officer of Inspector…
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…
Are IP requests for virtual machines overwhelming your current IP address management practices? You are not alone. In a June 2016 survey of IP Address Manager customers[1], 46% of respondents stated that virtual machines were creating challenges for managing IP addresses for their company. Independent author Brien Posey…
Application performance management continues to be so hard because applications are becoming increasingly complex, relying on multiple third-party components and services that are all added to the already-complicated modern application delivery chain that includes the applications and the backend IT infrastructure that…
Quite a few pundits including myself have mentioned that 2015 will be the year of hybrid cloud. But what exactly is hybrid cloud? Ask one hundred IT Pros and you’ll probably get one hundred differing answers. Check out some of the comments on the hybrid cloud post by our thwack Ambassador, amitace, aka @amitpanchal76 on…
This year and the previous, we have heard from various cloud providers that 2015 could be the year to take on a Hybrid Cloud approach in your organisation. With all that being said, we know that Cloud models exist in many guises and the various models exist to offer organisations a variety a choice in their deployment…
The Top Ten IT Pro-Dictions The SolarWinds High Council of Head Geeks has gathered their sage and eternally savvy wisdom. You would be wise to heed their words ~ Knowstradamus SolarWinds 2015 Head Geek Predictions As 2014 comes to a close and 2015 begins, SolarWinds tapped its band of experts – the Head Geeks – to take a…
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