Geek Speak

Since long before Steve Ballmer chanted "Developers, developers, developers!" a key part of Microsoft's strength in the enterprise has been the installed base of custom line-of-business applications built on Windows technologies like .NET Framework,...

“Tool sprawl”—particularly in edtech—is an increasing challenge. My colleague Brandon Shopp, group vice president of product strategy at SolarWinds, has some great advice on how to keep edtech tool sprawl in check.

Learn how we dealt with solving "hard" problems by utilizing the reduction technique to solve our packaging resolution problem for the Orion Platform.

Looking for ideas on how your end users can help enhance your organization’s security posture? Read this article by Brandon Shopp, group vice president of product strategy at SolarWinds, which provides some great tips.     As cyberatt...

If you’re using network monitoring solutions (regardless if it is an enterprise size or designed rather for smaller environments) to digest log messages from your network devices, sooner or later you’ll likely notice some performance iss...

International Podcast Day began in 2015 to celebrate the audio medium around the world. The day is meant to acknowledge and appreciate all who make podcasting possible—from the hosts to the fans, podcasts wouldn’t be possible without aud...

Podcasting is, and has been, the rage for a while now. What electronic self-publishing tools did to open up and democratize written content, podcasts have done for the area previously controlled by radio stations.  Folks with a strong point of ...

Having hosted discussions on SolarWinds TechPod, I can confidently say my appreciation for podcasts has grown, especially as I’ve witnessed the mechanics behind the scenes bringing an episode to life. But as a listener, how can you find and connect with a podcast?

I really liked this article by Brandon Shopp, group vice president of product strategy at SolarWinds, that addresses a common problem in too many environments.   When considering whether to add more applications or monitoring components to your ...

International Podcast Day is coming up, and, in case you missed it, SolarWinds has its own podcast called TechPod, so we want to celebrate! Much of the time one of us (Head Geeks) get to host the podcast, but today I want to talk about what it&rsquo...