Geekly World News - March 2022

Wow, March already? Time has flown by so far in 2022. This GWN is a little delayed because we were so busy with THWACKcamp^™! I hope everyone enjoyed it and filled out their post-event surveys to help us make THWACKcamp even better next year. We love putting on this event for you, and we want it to be better and better every time. If you missed it or just want to share sessions with colleagues/friends/your boss/customers/whoever, all sessions will be available on-demand right here on THWACK^® soon. Of course, time doesn’t stop with THWACKcamp, so check out what we have going on in March below. I wish you all an allergy-free March (I already missed the boat on that one )!

What Might You Have Missed in February?

• TechPod^™: Monitoring for Managers: Business Alignment—The Bridge to UnITy featuring Liz Beavers
• VoD: Strategies for a Successful and Scalable ITSM Implementation featuring Liz Beavers
• Where the Idea of a Metaverse Might Take Us in the Future by Sascha Giese (in German)
• Who Has Access and Why? The Key Role of Access Control in Enterprise Security by Sascha Giese (in German)
• SolarWinds Executive Believes AI Can Resolve Data Management Issues featuring Sascha Giese
• Why Zero Trust Should Replace “Trust but Verify” to Make Your Business More Secure by Sascha Giese
• VoD: How to: Conduct a Data Migration Performance Benchmark featuring Kevin Kline
• VoD: Selling SolarWinds to Management featuring Kevin Kline
• The Rise of Open-Source Databases: What You Need to Know by Kevin Kline (in Chinese)
• All Aboard the Hype Train for THWACKcamp 2022 by Chrystal Taylor
• TechPod: THWACKcamp: Celebrating 10 Years of IT Learning featuring Chrystal Taylor and Kevin M. Sparenberg
• The Rise of Chief Data Officers and the Fall of Database Administrators by Thomas LaRock
• The Disappearing DBA: What to Expect as Automation Accelerates by Thomas LaRock
• Three Practical Ways Government Employees Can Help Improve Their Agencies’ Cybersecurity Postures by Thomas LaRock

What’s Planned for March?

• As always, look forward to TechPod, featuring one or more of us at any time.
• You can find Thomas LaRock regularly cohosting the Raw Data Podcast, where they bring in industry pros to discuss top-of-mind topics.
• March 8 – 12, 2022, you can find Kevin Kline and Sascha Giese speaking and on the show floor in London, U.K., at SQLBits. Sessions include “How to Troubleshoot SQL Server CPU Problems,” “One Size Does Not Fit All,” and “Less QQ and More Pew Pew in IT.” Find more information and register here.
• On March 17, Kevin Kline will be presenting a webcast on “How to Build a Basic Data Dictionary” at 11 a.m. CT. Register here.
• Sascha Giese will be speaking at GISEC March 21 – 23 in Dubai, UAE, on “SolarWinds Secure by Design and Security Products” and “From Monitoring to Observability.” Register and find more information here.
• Kevin Kline will be presenting a webcast on “How to Find Your Top SQL Queries” on March 24 at 11 a.m. CT. Register here.

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