Solar Bytes - June 2024

Summer is here, and things are heating up. At SolarWinds, we’ve been busy launching our new SolarWinds® Service Desk with Generative AI functionality. We’re thrilled to share these new time-saving features with you, so be sure to check out the announcement for more details. Also, as of today, there’s a major update for the SolarWinds Platform products; you can find those details here. Most excitingly of all, June will see opportunities to meet us in person (Hello, Denver SWUG). Be sure to check out the What’s Planned section so we can connect with you IRL!

What Might You Have Missed in May?

VoD: Hybrid Cloud Observability | Insights From SolarWinds | GISEC Global 2024 featuring Abdul Rehman Tariq Butt

SolarWinds Expands its Platform Capabilities to Include Root Cause Assist Capability by Pramodh Chandrachary

Navigating Three Decades of the Cloud by Cullen Childress

Movies and Mainframes: Harold and Alex Mann - The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) featuring Andy Garibay

Movies and Mainframes: Jurassic Park (1993) featuring Andy Garibay and Kevin M. Sparenberg

SolarWinds Debuts ITSM Maturity Model Assessment Tool featuring RJ Gazarek

Harnessing ITSM: From Tool to Strategic Asset featuring RJ Gazarek

SolarWinds AI – Your Service Desk Sidekick by Stella Leibovich

Comprehensive PostgreSQL Monitoring with a Unified Vendor Approach: Part 1 by Owen Murphy

SolarWinds AI Integrated into Service Desk ITSM Platform featuring Venky Raman

The First Principle of AI by Design: Privacy and Security by Krishna Sai

SolarWinds Debuts AI Framework in its Service Desk Product featuring Krishna Sai

Don’t Sleep on Your Database Infrastructure When Building Large Language Models or Generative AI by Krishna Sai

SolarWinds Debuts Responsible AI for its Observability and IT Management Product Suite featuring Krishna Sai

License Recycling by Libor Sasek

TechPod: Marketing Stigmas Destigmafied! featuring Sean Sebring, Chrystal Taylor, and Brian Goldfarb

Rocky Mountain High: Denver SWUG 2024 by Kevin M. Sparenberg

London SWUG 2024: The Hangover Edition by Kevin M. Sparenberg

From DataOps to Database Pros featuring Kevin M. Sparenberg and Kevin Kline

Evolutionary Query: The Rise of PostgreSQL by Jeff Stewart

To SaaS or Not to SaaS? Choosing the Right Observability Strategy for Your Organization by Jeff Stewart

SolarWinds Centers PostgreSQL Support with Latest Database Performance Analyzer Update featuring Jeff Stewart

SolarWinds Unveils Enhanced Database Performance Analyzer with Advanced PostgreSQL Support featuring Jeff Stewart

Denver SWUG Prize Giveaways by Chrystal Taylor

We’re Peachy Keen for Atlanta SWUG by Chrystal Taylor

What’s Planned for June?

June 4 – 6, you’ll find SolarWinds at the Maritime IT Summit 2024/DoN CIO East.

Kevin Kline will be joined by guest Kellyn Gorman, Director of Data and AI at Silk, on June 4 at 10 a.m. CT for Turn the Tables on Poor Database Performance. They’ll be discussing optimization of PostgreSQL database performance.

If database isn’t your thing, join us on June 4 at 10 a.m. CT for The Next Generation of Papertrail is Here - You Don’t Want to Miss This Session 3 with Peter DiStefano, Ian Macleod, Rikita Dsouza, and Bradley Sisson.

Look forward to TechPod with hosts Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor. June’s episode features our hosts discussing Digital Detoxing and premiers on June 11.

On June 12, you can join us for our SolarWinds Service Desk Quarterly Product Update with Stella Leibovich, Joey Brown, RJ Gazarek, and Daniel Aharon. Select the time option that works best for you to register now. 7:30 a.m. CT, 10 a.m. CT, or 8 p.m. CT.

We’ll be at the Masterclass IT Summit in Cologne, Germany, June 12 – 13. If you'll be there, stop by and say hello to Sascha Giese.

Join us on June 18 at 10 a.m. CT for The Next Generation of Papertrail is Here - You Don’t Want to Miss This Session 4 with Peter DiStefano and Bradley Sisson.

If you’re enjoying The Next Generation of Papertrail series, join us for Session 5 on June 25 at 10 a.m. CT for the continuation with Peter DiStefano, Ian Macleod, Rikita Dsouza, and Bradley Sisson.

The first SWUG in the U.S. will be in Denver, CO, from June 25 to 26. Speakers include Jeff Stewart, Chrystal Taylor, Kevin M. Sparenberg, Kristen Piña Flores, Michael Clark, Megha Ayyagari, Carley Cousineau, Robert Mandeville, Bryce Mata, Cheryl Nomanson, Emily Coleman, and Brian Radovich. Check out the agenda. We hope you’ll join us.

Join us for another SolarWinds Day on June 26 at 10 a.m. CT or June 27 at 1 p.m. SGT. The topic this time will be AI: Friend or Foe? Register today for June 26 or June 27.

Kevin Kline will be hosting his monthly Data Table webcast on June 27 at 10 a.m. CT. This month’s topic is PowerShell: Unveiling the Basics.

Also, on June 27, you’ll find Chad Every and Arun Annavarapu discussing Hybrid Cloud Observability: More of What You Love About SolarWinds NA - Session 3 at 10 a.m. CT.

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