5 Key Considerations for Business Continuity Planning
09/17/19 Now more than ever, businesses need to understand the risks associated with their daily processes and make changes to safeguard their future and the financial security of …
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Monitoring the Intricate Relationship Between Applications and Servers
09/17/19 According to a recent SolarWinds federal IT survey, nearly half of IT professionals feel their environments aren’t operating at optimal levels. The more complex the app st…
Part II: Futureproofing. Your other full-time job — SolarWinds TechPod 019
09/17/19 Futureproofing. It’s a buzzword you hear a lot these days, but it can mean quite a few things if you’re an IT professional. Forecasting your next round of hardware upgrade…
How to Become a Hyperconverged Infrastructure Expert
09/16/19 Hyperconverged infrastructure has become a widely adopted approach to data center architecture. With so many moving parts involved, it can be difficult to keep up with the…
5 Beneficial Ways ITSM Has Evolved Over the Last Decade
09/13/19 Technology has changed a lot in a decade. Flashback to 2009 when smartphone adoption was still growing, and the concept of using a service desk to do anything in the offic…
EnterpriseDB Joint Webinar: Best Practices for Monitoring Postgres
09/13/19 I joined EnterpriseDB’s Bhavani Rao for an enjoyable conversation about monitoring PostgreSQL. We covered topics ranging from the reasons to monitor, to why it’s hard, to …
Part I: Futureproofing. Your other full-time job — SolarWinds TechPod 018
09/13/19 Futureproofing. It’s a buzzword you hear a lot these days, but it can mean quite a few things if you’re an IT professional. Forecasting your next round of hardware upgrade…
IT Pro Day 2019: Saluting Our Tech Pros
09/12/19 This year marks the fifth anniversary of IT Professionals Day! On the third Tuesday of September, we stop to recognize the dedication and hard work it takes to keep the ev…
It’s the Year of VDI! (Again) – A Costing Examination
09/12/19 If you attended a major conference or read any industry press over the last handful of years, you’d be excused for thinking everyone would be running on virtual desktop in…
The future of tracing is open
This article highlights how Datadog and OpenTelemetry work together to provide comprehensive application tracing. By leveraging OpenTelemetry for instrumentation and Datadog for an…
Maintaining a Secure Environment: Compliance Considerations
09/11/19 A security policy based on actual use cases has been documented, as have the components of the ecosystem. Before devising a practical implementation and configuration plan…
Monitor your Lambda functions with Datadog's Serverless Framework plugin
This article discusses how to gain deeper insights into AWS Lambda function performance using remote instrumentation—specifically, tools like OpenTelemetry—without modifying applic…