Solar Bytes - January 2025

Happy New Year! I hope you’ve had a restful and recharging holiday. Now is when we begin the work of turning our plans for 2025 into reality. It’s an inspiring time, but January can also feel challenging as we come back to work from our holidays. So remember, keep up the positivity and have patience with one another as we embark on new adventures.

What Might You Have Missed in December?

How GenAI is Democratizing IT Service Management by Abhijit Banerjee

Observability is the Hidden Catalyst for Transforming Corporate Culture by Abhijit Banerjee

From Data to People: How Observability is Reshaping Corporate Culture by Cullen Childress

The KPI Commandments: A Guide to Setting Targets in IT by Brad Cline

SolarWinds Web Help Desk 12.8.4 is Now Available by Avadhut Deshpande

5 Things We Learned at KubeCon 2024 by Peter DiStefano

Happy Holidays From Your THWACK Community by Kristen Piña Flores

Part1 - Tackling PostgreSQL Performance, Configuration Optimization by Ewen Fortune

Part 2 - Tackling PostgreSQL Performance, Query Optimization by Ewen Fortune

Building Trust in AI - How the Australian Government Can Set the Standard by Travis Galloway

More Service Desk Agents Aren’t The Answer by RJ Gazarek

The 4 Pillars of Database Observability by RJ Gazarek

Less Than a Fifth of IT Professionals Say Cloud Infrastructure Meets Their Needs featuring Sascha Giese

AI-Washing: The Hype About Artificial Intelligence by Sascha Giese (German)

VoD: Getting to Grips With Observability Requirements and Understanding the Value featuring Sascha Giese

How to Attain Deep Network Device Coverage with SolarWinds Observability SaaS by Tony Johnson

Managing Hybrid IT Environments in the Great Cloud Repatriation by Kevin Kline

SolarWinds Service Desk 2024 Release Round-up by Stella Leibovich

Unlock SolarWinds Service Desk Insights Faster with Pre-Built Power BI Templates by Stella Leibovich

Exciting Enhancements to Process Integrations by Stella Leibovich

Four Reasons Paessler PRTG Customers Should Consider Switching to SolarWinds by Abigail Norman

Is Your Organization Ready for the New DORA Cybersecurity Framework? by Kritin Paddington

SolarWinds Voices: Sudhakar Ramakrishna on InformationWeek

TechPod: Ghosts of Tech Past and Future featuring Sean Sebring, Chrystal Taylor, and Andy Garibay

AI Dominates, Infrastructure Adapts: What IT can Expect in 2025 by Chrystal Taylor

Predicting the Evolving Threat Landscape for 2025 featuring Chrystal Taylor

What’s Planned for January?

You can look forward to TechPod on January 14, when hosts Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor will hold a philosophical conversation about artificial intelligence with Doug Bennett of Amazon Web Services. *Author's note: This episode has been delayed, but will be released soon.*

  • Happy new year, Chrystal! Hope you and yours had a great break, and you got to spend time doing exactly what you wanted to do Slight smile

    To the THWACKsters, 2025 is going to be a challenge for many, but whatever happens, THWACK and your friendly neighbourhood monitoring MVP maestros will be here to help!

  • This year is going to be a good year. I have also found the best possible use for AI, and that is to recreated a couple of classic BBC Radio Comedies

    Just a minute

    I am sorry I haven't a Clue.

    Both were unsurpassable in the 70's & 80'sbut unfortunately many of the regular guests grew old and died and the younger ones that replaced them have just not quite captured the ambience of the originals. Using AI we could re-create the voices of the core regulars, get the timing correct and then have 1 physical new guest to play alongside the AI replica's. I miss Humphrey Littleton as chair of I'm sorry I haven't a clue, he was a jazz musician and his timing was without peer. I recommend you look some of the older episodes up on BBC sounds or YouTube, avoid the failed TV version of Just A Minute, it did not work, these shows were for radio only.

    Happy laughs for 2025

  • Excited to explore the new updates and features in Solar Bytes – a great start to 2025....!!!!

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