Are you ready for a product upgrade but are unsure how to start planning? SolarWinds Support Application Engineer Eric Bryant and Senior Product Marketing Manager John Ahern will take you through the best practices for upgrade preparedness.
Are you ready for a product upgrade but are unsure how to start planning? SolarWinds Support Application Engineer Eric Bryant and Senior Product Marketing Manager John Ahern will take you through the best practices for upgrade preparedness.
Are you on the latest version of the Orion Platform products? Learn how to find and download the offline installer, prepare for the upgrade, enable the upgrade to your products and agents, and finally, how to confirm and check your upgrade.
Learn about all the great new features added to the 2020.2 release including updates to SolarWinds Orion Platform maps, network monitoring, new implementation options, virtualization chargeback, and much more.
SolarWinds Orion Platform products are designed with flexibility in mind to cover networks of all shapes and sizes. Whether you’re monitoring a large datacenter or hundreds of small retail locations, we’ll talk through the different options for the most efficient coverage of your environment. We’ll also showcase a few of the features from recent releases benefitting everyone but are particularly useful when monitoring…
Getting to the root cause of application performance problems is tricky with limited or no database visibility. Product experts Jared Hensle and John Potocny will show you how to get both high-level health status and along with insights into infrastructure, application, and database performance whether you are running in the cloud or on-premises using SolarWinds AppOptics and SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor…
IT service management plays a critical role in IT operations. It is the primary center for communication between end users and everything IT does to keep the business running efficiently. In this session, learn how to connect Service Desk to Orion monitoring, helping IT react to and resolve infrastructure issues faster. We’ll cover the types of alerts that should trigger Service Desk incidents, discovering asset data…
Easily solve issues within your organization without having to break the bank or spend a lot of time learning how to use new software. Join us to learn more about how our affordable and quick time-to-value software tools can help you easily solve problems you’re facing now.
What questions do you have about a career in IT with monitoring as its focus? What would you ask monitoring engineers with decades of experience? This informal forum will give you the chance to ask questions and get answers in real time from the guests of the “Signal from the Noise: A Career Built by Monitoring” session.
A Q&A session, SD-WAN – WHAT, HOW, and WHY It’s Got Your Number. With the rising adoption of SD-WAN technologies, you might be left with more questions than answers. To get to the bottom of our SD-WAN queries, SolarWinds thought leaders and industry expert Dr. Jim Metzler join us to provide the answers you seek. Learn how to plan for and capitalize on SD-WAN projects now and in the future.
If you find yourself constantly being asked for dashboards and then the requesters are disappointed by those dashboards, it might be because you aren’t translating your data correctly for your audience. Presenting the RIGHT data in the RIGHT way makes all the difference to your end user. SolarWinds Head Geek Chrystal Taylor and Product Manager Tony Johnson discuss the benefits of creating views and dashboards tailored for your audience…
One of the hallmarks of SolarWinds customers is their willingness and ability to creatively pair the tools they have at hand into solutions designed to impress and delight both their colleagues and those who depend on them for alerts, reports, and data. In this session, Head Geek Sascha Giese will talk with SolarWinds Partner Holger Mundt about some of his favorite enterprise customer deployments. Holger and Sascha will discuss…
What can we learn from the government about improving security? It comes down to eliminating known vulnerabilities and improving compliance. Join Dave Richards from the National Guard’s Regional Cyber Center as he shares his experience on securing government networks. He’ll discuss compliance, continuous monitoring, and review the SolarWinds tools they use to help monitor and secure their network.
Burnout is still stigmatized, but it’s real. Shrinking IT budgets, 100% uptime, and an ever-changing landscape tax everyone. Learn how to deal with the situation before it’s too late and take care of yourself—because no one else will.
Start talking about “soft” skills, and some IT pros will roll their eyes. Maybe because the term “soft” skills can seem insulting. When what we’re really talking about is ESSENTIAL skills. Nobody wants to work with someone who’s brilliant but a jerk. You might be thinking, “I was hired to do a job—and I do it darn well—so who cares about being nice?” Before she was a SolarWinds Head Geek , Chrystal Taylor worked as a monitoring engineer…
When asked which skills would best help IT practitioners uplevel their careers, Keith Townsend's answer was simple and direct: "Learn how to 'people' better." In this session, Keith expands on this advice - offering valuable context, specific skills and techniques, and measurable methods for gauging success.
Those of us who make our living in tech love to hate (or at least poke fun at) managers. But the truth is, it does us no good to dismiss and diminish people who don’t know our discipline like we do. Instead, we should offer to educate and inform. In this session, we'll answer the technical questions managers—those folks who both lead and represent the boots-on-the-ground monitoring engineers—have. These are real questions asked…
Modern infrastructure technology offers truly innovative operations options, but its unintended consequences are becoming a headache for many IT teams. Infrastructure vendors have delivered revolutionary applications and services, but they increasingly dump visibility and manageability gaps into the enigmatic bucket of hybrid IT. Learn how businesses quickly jump from “a little bit of cloud” to complex app interconnections…
One of the challenges monitoring engineers face is building a lab that's both representative of their environment and not a complete mirror image of production, which is functionally impractical, unsupportable, and impossibly expensive. In this session, Head Geeks Sascha Giese and Leon Adato show you how to build a lab (whether temporary or long-term) in AWS or Azure, using a cloud-based instance of GNS3 to mimic a set of …
Complex, statically defined network device monitoring is increasingly moving from physical to software-defined networks. With the rising adoption of SD-WAN technologies, we're left with more questions than answers. To get to the bottom of our SD-WAN queries, we surveyed hundreds of users to clarify hot topics with which we're all grappling. In this panel, you'll learn from SolarWinds thought leaders and industry expert…
In part one of our candid discussion with real-world CIOs, you had a chance to learn how the smart work of IT professionals, managers, and executive leadership made 2020 a surprisingly successful year for many IT teams. In part 2, you’ll hear from a different set of CIOs representing teams that each support multiple businesses as solution providers, resellers, and partners. You’ll learn what it took for IT teams to accomplish…
If you’re an IT professional, you likely already know 2020 has been a trying—but also potentially outstanding—year for IT departments. But how often do you get a chance to have a casual conversation with your CIO about why your expertise, hustle, and hard work is important to the business overall? Many businesses have been reminded IT is a competitive asset when communication is streamlined, and goals are clear. In part…
Web applications have evolved over the years to become more robust, more powerful, and more important to businesses. As part of this evolution, web applications have also increased in complexity, which means they can fail in far more numerous and surprising ways. In this candid technology session, SolarWinds senior product manager Adam Hert and senior technical advisor Mike Morgan take you on a tour of the many ways modern web applications…
This session provides a closer look at SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor through the eyes of a developer and covers the features that resonate with software developers—and why. Learn how software development practices are shaped by the performance metrics tracked uniquely by DPM.
Database Administrators (DBAs) are no longer the sole owners of database tuning and optimization. At the same time, hybrid IT and cloud-native applications are changing the face of traditional database design, management, and monitoring. How does an old-school DBA wrap their head around a distributed cloud-based system? What does the System Reliability Engineer (SRE) need to know when asked to handle one of the legacy systems…
We all know alerts tell people what to look at and when to look at it. But the truth is, plain-text alerts get ignored and good-looking alerts get read. Fortunately, all it takes to set up engaging alerts is a little HTML and CSS know-how. Kevin M. Sparenberg shows you the basics of using HTML and CSS in your alerts, including some tips he's gotten from the field. With pretty alerts, you can get a huge return on a small-time…
