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Slow Queries? Move Fast to Fix Them

01/17/18 What Are the Effects of Slow Queries? Slow queries can have serious negative impacts on your business. The impacts will vary depending on your architecture, industry, or a…

Disaster Recovery – Focus on the Disaster First!

01/16/18 When organizations first take on the challenge of setting up a disaster recovery plan, it’s almost always based on the premise that a complete failure will occur. With tha…

From Financial to Federal: Three Hot Technologies Affecting Government IT

01/16/18 It’s the time of year when we look toward the future. Here’s an interesting article from my colleague, Joe Kim, where he provides a few predictions. Want a good idea of wh…

Reporting vs. Analysis: Do You Know the Difference?

01/11/18 Do you want to create actionable outputs from your data? Then learn the difference between reporting and analysis to gain the power of organizational intelligence. The pos…

How to collect EC2 metrics

This article details how to effectively monitor AWS Graviton3-powered EC2 instances using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's auto-discovery and custom metrics to gain d…

Key metrics for EC2 monitoring

This article details how to effectively monitor AWS Graviton3-powered EC2 instances using Datadog. It explains how to leverage Datadog's auto-discovery and pre-built integrations t…

How to monitor EC2 instances with Datadog

This Datadog article explains how to effectively monitor Amazon EC2 instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors. It details how to leverage Datadog's auto-discovery and pre-built…

Preparing Defense Networks for Cyberattacks

01/09/18 Here’s an interesting article from my colleague, Joe Kim, in which he argues that military IT professionals can and should adopt a more proactive approach to combating cyb…

Monitoring Cloud from On-Prem

01/09/18 The use of cloud technology and services–especially public cloud–has become nearly ubiquitous. For example, it has made its way into even the most conservative organizatio…

Everything I Needed To Know About IT I Learned From Logan (Part Three)

01/08/18 (This is the third part of a series. You can find Part One here and Part Two here.) It behooves me to remind you that there are many spoilers beyond this point. If you hav…

2017 Year in Review for SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor

01/04/18 It’s easy to observe (pun intended) in the rear-view mirror. Hindsight bias aside, 2017 was a big year for SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) and our customers!…

How Do You Take the Service Desk Beyond IT?

01/04/18 What many organizations don’t realize is that every department is a service provider to another in some way -- so why aren’t we using a service management solution across …