2012 Upgrade Grief Therapy
10/26/19 Every now and then engineers get excited – giddy even – by the words “time to upgrade.” Who doesn’t love new features, better performance, and bug fixes? But too often tho…
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I’m Still On-Premises, Is That OK?
10/25/19 If you stop and think for a moment, cloud computing is still in its youth. EC2 has only been a public offering since 2006. Gartner® first treated “the cloud” as a real thi…
CSAM: Don’t Miss These Commonly Overlooked Areas of Cybersecurity
10/25/19 Security isn’t just about the latest technical controls or the newest threat. Rani Johnson talks about two areas of security she thinks should get more emphasis. If you wa…
Why the Service Desk Has Become the Center for Employee Engagement
10/24/19 What is Employee Engagement? What’s the best place you’ve ever worked? Why did you like it so much? Great manager and coworkers? Flexible work schedule? Nice paycheck? The…
Don’t Shut Your Pi-Hole, Monitor It! (part 2 of 2)
10/24/19 In my last post I gave some background on one of my recent side projects: setting up and then monitoring a Raspberry Pi running Pi-Hole. In this post, I’m going to dive in…
How the IT Service Desk Can Better Engage with Remote Employees
10/23/19 According to a report based on statistics from the U.S. Census and the U.S. Bureau of Labor, remote work has increased nearly 160% since 2005. It’s no secret that the enab…
Traditional Infrastructure vs. Hyperconverged Infrastructure
10/23/19 Perhaps the title of this post should be “To Hyperconverge or Not to Hyperconverge,” since it’s the question at hand. Understanding whether HCI is a good idea requires a h…
SolarWinds at Microsoft Ignite 2019
10/22/19 Microsoft Ignite is taking place November 4 – 8 in Orlando, and SolarWinds will be there to share the latest in IT management, from IT operations to outsourced IT and clou…
The Do’s and Don’ts of Edge Computing
10/22/19 Edge computing is here to stay and it’s no wonder. Edge computing provides federal IT pros with a range of advantages they simply don’t have with more traditional computin…
Live Chat: How It’s Boosting Employee Engagement Inside the Service Desk
10/22/19 When it comes to internal support, sometimes employees just need a way to reach out to your team, and responding with “do you mind submitting a ticket?” leads to submittin…
Don’t Shut Your Pi-Hole, Monitor It! (part 1 of 2)
10/21/19 If you’ve read my posts for any length of time, you know I sometimes get caught up in side projects. Whether it’s writing an eBook, creating a series of blog posts about c…
SolarWinds DPM Supports Amazon Web Services’ Aurora Databases
10/19/19 It’s our pleasure to announce that SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) now fully supports Amazon Web Services’ Aurora, a new and exciting evolution in database t…