Solar Bytes - October 2024

It’s spooky season! As every year, I’m excited to see all the costumes and everyone having a good time (hopefully!) for Halloween. It’s one of my favorite times of year because I see everyone's creativity in action. Meanwhile, it’s the start of the tech event season, which means there’s A LOT in the what’s planned section. We hope to see you at one or more events.

What Might You Have Missed in September?

Version 2024.4 Features: Improvements to Risk and Vulnerability Management Dashboard by Arun Annavarapu

AI- Friend or Foe of IT Pros? by Abhijit Banerjee

Three Ways to Leverage AI for Smarter ITSM by Abhijit Banerjee

Group Assignment Fields, Incident-Specific Survey Results, New Software Management Functionality – and More! by Joey Brown

VoD: How SolarWinds Uses Spectra Assure as the Final Build Exam featuring Tim Brown

ESM Office Hours - Sign Up For Help, Ask Questions, or to Explore ESM Further by RJ Gazarek

Using Transparency & Sharing to Defend Critical Infrastructure by Travis Galloway

Public-Private Partnerships Can Better Tackle Today’s Cyber Threats Environment by Travis Galloway

VoD: Interview with SolarWinds – Is the AI Hype Over? featuring Sascha Giese (German)

AI in the Company Needs Clear Objectives by Sascha Giese (German)

Strategically Optimising IT Budgets in an Era of Change and Disruption by Sascha Giese

Digital and Data Roadmap Reaches Two-Year Mark – Where Are We Now? by Sascha Giese

Why Are Enterprises Slow to Adopt Observability Tools? by Rob Johnson (French)  

Opinion: Securing the Backbone of Health by Kevin Kline

Artificial Intelligence and AIOps May Be the Key To Understanding Today's World of Exploding Data by Kevin Kline 

Generative AI: Highlighting the Importance of Governance in Data Management by Kevin Kline

More Features for Enterprise Service Management (ESM) – Duplication of Service Providers, Ticket Forwarding Customization & Reporting, and More by Stella Leibovich

Tool Sprawl and How to Stop It by Abigail Norman

SolarWinds Platform and Products—Version 2024.4 Release Candidate Now Available! by Brian Radovich

SolarWinds to Present Full-Stack Observability, Database Management, and ITSM Solutions at GITEX 2024 by Abdul Rehman Tariq Butt

Optimistic about AI by Krishna Sai

“The Question for Enterprises Today Isn’t Whether to Adopt Observability, but How to Deploy It” by Jeff Stewart

The Future of Observability: How OpenTelemetry Guides IT Operations in the Age of AI by Jeff Stewart (French)

TechPod: Ooo Shiny Shiny! – Keeping IT Projects in Check featuring Sean Sebring, Chrystal Taylor, and guest m_roberts 

IT Pro Day 2024 by Chrystal Taylor

Thank You, Chicago! by Chrystal Taylor

Bring Your Observabili-buddy to SolarWinds Day by Chrystal Taylor

What’s Planned for October?

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Look forward to TechPod with hosts Sean Sebring, Chrystal Taylor, and guest Sascha Giese. On October 8, listen in for a dive into sustainability in the tech world.

Kevin Kline will speak at the Quad Cities Data Professionals event from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on 5 Considerations When Moving Your Database to the Cloud.

SolarWinds will be at GITEX Global in Dubai, UAE, from October 14 to 18. Stop by booth H8-C15. This is a great opportunity to meet with SolarWinds executives, including president and CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna, along with our engineers and experts to explore our offerings and learn about the latest in tech. We will also host a reception at the booth on Thursday, October 17th, at 3:00 p.m. Book a 1:1 Meeting with our experts now to discuss specific challenges.

Join Jeff Stewart and Zach Stephens on October 21 at 10 a.m. Central for The Observability Dilemma: To SaaS or Not to SaaS, That is the Question!

SolarWinds will be at booth #4030 at the EDUCAUSE annual conference in San Antonio, TX, from October 21 to 24.

Sascha Giese will be at IT-SA in Nuremberg, DE, from October 22 to 24, speaking on several topics: Where to Place Your Observability Solution, Observability for Professionals, and Hidden Treasures. Swing by booth #6-146 in Hall 6 and say hello.

TechNet Indo-Pacific will be in Honolulu, HI, from October 22 to 24. We will be at booth #707.

From October 28 – 30, you can find SolarWinds at booth #2025 at DoDIIS Worldwide 2024 in Omaha, NE.

Join Kevin Kline on October 31 for another session of The Data Table. The topic for October is an AMA session on misconfigured database servers.