The Case for Upgrading — SolarWinds TechPod 035
02/04/21 The relationship IT professionals have with upgrades can sometimes only be described as “fraught.” Reasons range from the cost in terms of time and lost opportunity to “no…
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Continuing Our Journey to Becoming Secure by Design
02/03/21 Since we announced the cyberattack on the Orion Platform seven weeks ago, we’ve worked tirelessly with our customers and Partners to ensure the safety and security of thei…
Findings From Our Ongoing Investigations
02/03/21 SolarWinds was one of a growing number of targets of a highly sophisticated, broad, and coordinated nation-state cyber operation that compromised multiple software and har…
Anything But Soft: The Tech Skills You’ll Need For 2021
02/03/21 Recently, I was asked to comment on “…what skills IT practitioners should plan to learn or improve as we head into 2021.” While a few of those thoughts appeared online I w…
How Emerging Technologies Influence State Government Staffing Needs
02/01/21 Emerging technologies impact many areas of an organization, but their impact on staffing is often overlooked. It would be ideal for public sector organizations, and state …
New Data Security Challenges in the Rush to the Cloud
The challenges of working from home have caused organizations to reevaluate how they look at their networks and the data that lives on them. The range of at-home networks and BYO-d…
5 Tips for Better Help Desk Reporting and Monitoring
01/27/21 Performance reporting is an essential part of everything IT does, and the help desk is no different. But help desk reporting and metrics are particular to each organizatio…
4 Steps to Efficiently Solve Problems
01/26/21 Problems—we all have to deal with minor or major problems in our personal or professional lives. Having a consistent problem-solving approach can be very helpful, and demo…
How to Futureproof IT Environments Without Going Into Technical Debt
01/25/21 Federal IT pros are experts at using quick fixes to keep costs down and save time, often because there’s no other option. They essentially leap from crisis to crisis inste…
Live Q&A: SD-WAN—What, How, and Why It’s Got Your Number
01/22/21 The shift from physical to software-defined networks has left many people in the IT community with more questions than answers. What’s driving the explosive adoption of SD…
Monitor Azure IoT Edge with Datadog
The Datadog AKS cluster extension simplifies monitoring Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters by automatically installing and configuring the Datadog Agent directly within your n…
Monitoring for Managers – What You Need to Know to Sound Like a Monitoring Expert
01/20/21 We released a survey asking managers what questions they had for their teams to help them better understand monitoring as a whole and to better relate to their teams. Sola…