The most recent content from our members.
I recently had the opportunity to interview Cole Lavallee of Waters Corporation. At Waters, Cole and his team use Server & Application Monitor, Log & Event Manager and DameWare to monitor and troubleshoot hundreds of servers, critical applications, and sites worldwide to reduce any downtime and increase customer…
Last week I had the pleasure to interview Tracy Dennis of Antioch Unified School District, located in Antioch, California. JK: How did you come to know SolarWinds for your network management needs? TD: It happened when we were changing daylight savings time in California a few years ago. We have a large array of older…
Last week I interviewed Joe Kline of Maritz. Joe is a Senior Infrastructure Specialist and manages the Network Management Group which is responsible for deploying new IT solutions, tools, upgrades, and more. Joe and his team use Web Performance Monitor from SolarWinds to manage hundreds of web applications and websites.…
I recently interviewed Alex Hoang of Presidio. He is a SolarWinds partner who resells SolarWinds monitoring products. Presidio generally serves large Cisco shops who are implementing datacenter infrastructure projects. JK: Why do your clients want to purchase SolarWinds products? AH: While we are in the envisioning phase,…
I had the pleasure of interviewing Sean Ackerman on why he decided to go with Server & Application Monitor. Sean is an Infrastructure Engineer who works in the insurance industry. JK: Tell me a little about your IT environment. SA: Our infrastructure is 70% virtualized. We have about 3,000 VMs, excluding our VDI…
I had the opportunity to recently interview Jim Shank of Douglas County School District, Castle Rock, CO. Jim is part of Douglas County’s infrastructure team which uses SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor to proactively monitor the schools’ servers and databases. JK: What are some SolarWinds products you’re currently…
This blog contains the answer to a question in this month's thwack mission (week 4). Enter this week to win a Slingbox 500! I had the pleasure to speak with Thomas Löfstrand of Nethouse, a SolarWinds business partner located in Sweden. Thomas recently evaluated the new features of Server & Application Monitor. JK: I…
I interviewed Stefan Gustafsson who works at a large software development company. He recently deployed Server & Application Monitor (SAM) v5.5 and within a minute SAM identified a failing power supply in his blade chassis that had six production blades. JK: What SolarWinds products do you use to monitor your environment?…
Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Brian Lemoine, Senior System Administrator at Guaranty Bank & Trust. Guaranty Bank is a community bank in South Louisiana with 5 locations, 70 computers, servers, virtual server and ~45 users. JK: How long have you used SolarWinds Patch Manager, and what applications do you…
Yesterday I had the good fortune to interview Kevin Small. Kevin is a system administrator for a large bank. JK: Kevin, why did you decide to use SolarWinds for your server monitoring needs? KS: In December 2011 I joined the team and was tasked with updating network monitoring. At that time the bank was using CA Spectrum…
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