Solar Bytes - May 2025
Things have been busy here at SolarWinds, with the announcement of our acquisition by Turn/River and the addition of Squadcast to our portfolio, not to mention the product release candidate announcements, the SolarWinds World Tour, and other events. Things are very exciting around here! There are several opportunities to interact with us in May, and we hope to see you at them.
What Might You Have Missed in April?
SolarWinds Platform and Products – Release Candidate Version 2025.2 is Now Available! by James Barnes
What is Operational Resilience? by Cullen Childress
What 15 Years in IT Has Taught Me About People, Process, and Tools by Michael
Transaction Monitoring vs Transaction Tracing: How They Can Work Together by Peter DiStefano
Movies and Mainframes: The IT Crowd (2006-2013) featuring Andy Garibay and Chrystal Taylor
Welcome to the Era of Operational Resilience by R.J. Gazarek
Building an Inclusive AI-Driven Future for Education by Sascha Giese
In Praise of Maintenance: Strategies to Conquer Technical Debt by Kevin Kline
The Smart Automation Playbook: Elevating SQL Server Performance by Kevin Kline
Built for Scale: SEM 2025.2—Bigger, Smarter, More Flexible by Keshav Kumar
What’s New in Access Rights Manager 2025.2? by Keshav Kumar
What’s New in Security Event Manager (SEM) 2025.2? by Keshav Kumar
Security Event Manager (SEM)’s Remote Sharing by Keshav Kumar
Field Mapping of Triggered Incidents, Power BI Custom Field Enhancement, and New Match Serial Number Option for Asset Management by Stella Leibovich
SolarWinds and Turn/River Capital: Supercharging Innovation and Operational Resilience by Sudhakar Ramakrishna
SolarWinds Acquired by Turn/River Capital for USD$4.4 Billion featuring Sudhakar Ramakrishna
GISEC 2025 Shaping the Future of Middle East Cybersecurity—Security Middle East & Africa featuring Abdul Rehman
Why Data Center Location Matters by Rachel Revoy
Leveraging Location Flexibility: SolarWinds Observability SaaS Adds Data Center in Asia-Pacific and Japan by Rachel Revoy
The Four Pillars of AI Observability by Krishna Sai
Evolving Operations With Assistive AIOps by Krishna Sai
SolarWinds Adds Incident Management Tool From Squadcast featuring Krishna Sai
The True Cost of ITSM: On-Prem vs SaaS by Sean Sebring
TechPod: Monitoring, Observability, and Operational Resilience featuring Sean Sebring, Chrystal Taylor, and Jeff Stewart
Why Businesses Must Align People, Processes, and Technology to Thrive by Eric Seidman
AI has Already Reshaped the Cybersecurity Landscape and This Will Only Accelerate as we Move Through the Rest of 2025 featuring Chrystal Taylor
Essential Features for Your Cloud Monitoring Solution by Jason Tolu
What’s Planned for May?
We’re looking forward to TechPod on May 13 with researchers Mostafa Ayoobzadeh and Melika Shirmohammadi to discuss Community and Collaboration: Lessons from Gaming.
The SolarWinds World Tour is making a stop in London, UK, on May 13. Join Eric Bauer, Gillian Neligan, Simon Abrahams, Adam Timberly, and more for in-person discussions, demos, and insights.
The SolarWinds World Tour has another stop on May 13 in Dubai, AE. There, you can meet Krishna Sai, Abdul Rehman, Sascha Giese, Robert Mandeville, Eoin Keenan, and more for great sessions and discussions.
We’ll be in London, UK on May 14-15, for SITS—Service Desk and IT Support Show. You can find SolarWinds at stand #151.
Also, on May 14-15, SolarWinds will be in Stockholm, Sweden, for the Stockholm Tech Show 2025.
May 21-23 will see us at GITEX Europe in Berlin, Germany, at our booth #H2.2-A40. Drop by and chat with the onsite team, including Eric Bauer, Sascha Giese, Amir Gharred, and others. Sascha Giese will be speaking on Open Telemetry at the event.
The next stop on the SolarWinds World Tour will be May 22 in Atlanta, GA. Join Jeff Stewart, Zach Stephens, Kevin Kline, Abigail Norman, and others in person for insights, demos, and future-forward discussions.
