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IT Pro Day ’21: Bring IT On

08/02/21 IT Pro Day has always been about singing the praises of practitioners across the vast spectrum of tech specialties, from network engineers and systems administrators; to i…

Building a Network Architecture to Support the Next Phase of Remote Work

08/02/21 The global pandemic continues to fluctuate, but the reliance on IT services and teams to support service continuity in the public sector remains steady. To ensure network …

SysAdmin Day 2021: You Are Enough

07/28/21 A year ago, in July of 2020, I started my SysAdmin Day post with the words, “I’m not going to even try to pretend SysAdmin Day arrives this year under conditions anyone wo…

Celebrating SysAdmin Day 2021 — SolarWinds TechPod 046

07/27/21 While it may not be circled in red on many people’s calendars, SysAdmin Day holds a special place in the hearts of many IT professionals. Certainly, because everyone likes…

Finding Zen in the Tedium

07/26/21 As often happens, I was recently talking about my son and his attitude regarding chores. Doing the thing parents do, commiserating and getting advice from another parent w…

Powerful Time-Based Automation Rules to Move You From Reactive to Proactive

07/23/21 Bad things left alone tend to get worse Unattended incidents won’t clean up after themselves and will come back to haunt you—whether as rising MTTR metrics, a cluttered In…

The “Now Normal” — A Look Ahead

07/22/21 In our previous blog, we looked back at the year of transformation that was 2020. To say the last year was a bit hectic—even chaotic at times—would be an understatement. B…

AI Never Sleeps in the Data Center

07/21/21 A data center typically employs between 30-200 people depending on the size and the intended project use. But only a fraction of those folks run the IT side. Besides swapp…

The Disappearing DBA: Nobody Goes to School to Become a Data Janitor — SolarWinds TechPod 045

07/20/21 Automation has been a disaster for the traditional database administration (DBA) role. As more systems and processes are automated away with code, the need for DBAs decrea…

Monitoring Could Prove to Be a Lifesaver for the Public Sector

07/19/21 One of the business consequences from the pandemic—increased remote working—is causing technology challenges across most industries, including the public sector. The pande…

[Infographic] Knowledge Tune-Up: Database Engine Essentials

07/13/21 It’s important to understand how a database engine works, and knowing what to monitor is the key to overall performance. As part of that overview, this infographic outline…

Patch Available for Serv-U Memory Escape Vulnerability

07/09/21 On Friday, July 9, 2021, SolarWinds issued CVE-2021-35211 related to a vulnerability in Serv-U Managed File Transfer Server and Serv-U Secured FTP. We have released a hotf…