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Bring IT On in the Year of the Ox

09/21/21 IT Pro Day is here, and it feels like the new year in IT! It’s a time to reflect on lessons from the past year and celebrate your achievements while setting goals for the …

Everything I Needed to Know About IT I Learned From The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Part Two)

09/20/21 (This piece was co-authored by Alex Taylor and Leon Adato) As we did in our first installment, we want to provide fair warning: spoilers lie ahead. If, even after all this…

Everything I Needed to Know About IT I Learned From The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Part One)

09/17/21 (This piece was co-authored by Alex Taylor and Leon Adato) Before we take flight here, let me start with fair warning—this article contains several spoilers for The Falcon…

Lesley Carhart on Cybersecurity, IT Careers, and Service In and Out of the Military — SolarWinds TechPod 048

09/14/21 Lesley Carhart is recognized as one of the leading voices in digital forensics and cybersecurity. But her career began – and is still firmly rooted – with her service in t…

Improving Learning Continuity With Tech: 4 Ways Schools Can Use Relief Funds

09/13/21 When the pandemic closed schools across the country, K–12 districts undertook the herculean task of moving millions of students and staff to remote learning as quickly as …

Why SQL Server Monitoring Is the First Step in Improving Performance

09/09/21 SQL Server monitoring is continuous collection and analysis of usage, performance, and event metrics for Microsoft SQL Server. It’s the first step in optimizing performanc…

IT Pros to the World: Bring IT On

09/01/21 That’s what they say. Bring it on. I’m ready for this. I’m prepared. But no one could prep for what happened and how things evolved, right? So is preparation not necessary…

Tech Career Origin Stories — SolarWinds TechPod 047

08/31/21 The tech industry is booming, and there are many opportunities to transition from other career paths – or to change your path within tech. Join Head Geek Chrystal Taylor a…

How the Pandemic Impacted the Government’s Cloud Migration Plans

08/30/21 “Cloud-first” has been a government imperative for many years, but the pandemic usurped this strategy, making “cloud-now” a priority. The results have been transformationa…

Making Your Service Desk the GOAT

08/24/21 Imagine every time you visited the service desk to submit a ticket, you were greeted by the boisterous drums from the medley of the Olympics—you’d feel like a gold medalis…

The Parallax View [of Your IT Career]

08/23/21 The Parallax View is a 1974 movie starring Warren Beatty. It’s one of many 1970s-style “conspiracy” movies, if you’re looking for something else to binge while we ride out…

Resilient Infrastructure for a Secure Future

08/19/21 Each year, SolarWinds® surveys IT professionals around the world to gauge what’s most pressing on their minds, but also to understand their organization’s challenges and h…