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I had an opportunity recently to interview a long time SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) customer, Prashant Sharma, IT Manager, Fresenius Kabi (India). KR: As an IT manager, what are you primary roles and responsibilities? PS: I’m in charge of the whole of IT where I manage the IT environment, look at IT…
You have no control over when you may experience downtime. If you’re thinking, ‘what’s an hour of downtime going to cost?’ You may want to re-think that. What you thought was an hour of downtime can cost your organization millions (if you’re a large organization). Organizations whose businesses are driven through online…
System administrators face many day-to-day challenges. Specifically, when they’re troubleshooting and resolving user issues. The last thing on their mind is probably to look at performance data and make meaningful sense out of it. While this may be a daunting task, data analysis is key when solving issues that may arise…
Manage Engine recently wrote a response to our comparison post on Manage Engine’s Applications Monitor versus SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM). They are spot on in their response that SolarWinds provides only conventional server and application monitoring capabilities. The reason why we do this is because that…
Upgrading to SCOM 2012? If you are, now might be the time to think about why you have SCOM in the first place. For a lot of companies, SCOM is one of those things that came along as part of a package deal. You didn’t really choose it, but it was either very inexpensive or free, and it works ok. Sure, it’s a bit difficult…
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…
Do you have a lot of money sitting around, gathering dust? You do? Can I come over to visit? Really though, in these days of “tighten your belt” budgets, it’s difficult to justify spending many thousands of dollars for software, many more thousands to implement it, and even more each year in maintenance. So if you’re…
This is a common scenario in most organizations: end-users complaining of slow email performance. Sometimes all users experience it, or just a few people (maybe in a specific location, or just randomly). It could also be a home user connecting via VPN complaining that email Web access is slow. IT teams face different types…
A database admin has responsibilities to fulfill around the clock. From ensuring the backing up of databases, attending to breakdowns of applications affecting database performance, verifying accuracy of information within the organizations’ database, and constantly monitoring the entire database server. Fulfilling all…
To quickly diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks in Exchange server, you should try to know every component within the application and how they impact performance. Continuously monitoring Exchange will get you familiarized with each metric. In turn, you will be more aware of the kind of thresholds that you can set…
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