Secure by Design: Getting Our Customers Back to Business
03/05/21 Organizations stopped in their tracks when the cyberattack occurred. When you’re focused on taking the right actions to protect your environment, your users, and your enti…
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Year of Yes in Tech
03/05/21 Recently, I finished reading Shonda Rhimes’ “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person.” I found it inspiring in several ways and it instan…
Best Practices for Monitoring Your End-User Experience – SolarWinds Lab Episode #94
03/04/21 Knowing if a server has high CPU is helpful, but does it really matter if your end users can still access their apps without performance issues? If you’re only monitoring …
ITSM For All: Bringing Human Resources into the Service Desk
03/04/21 For those who have been keeping up with our series on IT Service Management (ITSM) beyond IT, welcome back! If you’re new to this conversation, it isn’t like a podcast whe…
5 Reasons You Don’t Need a Management Title to Be a Leader
03/02/21 Leaders can be categorized, somewhat, by their motivation. I recall an offsite meeting a few years ago that began with everyone contemplating the question, “Why do you lea…
Confessions of an Upgrade Cheerleader
03/02/21 If you’re a SolarWinds customer, there’s a good chance you’ve seen a video of a Head Geek, passionately urging you to upgrade to the latest and greatest version Right Now.…
“SUDO Teach Me a Lesson”
03/02/21 The command “sudo” is an essential part of Vax, Unix, and Linux operating systems. It’s so intrinsic to how SysAdmins work, many consider “sudo” to be a built-in command a…
Change Is Hard
03/01/21 I.T. folks understand change can be hard, and I don’t mean in the “Who Moved My Cheese” kind of way. Change, as in “change control,” is necessary. But we don’t like the pr…
Upgrade Better, Faster, Stronger
03/01/21 Because of the recent cyberattack, we’ve asked you to update your Orion Platform several times. While these updates are necessary for the safety and performance of your en…
Project Management as a Critical Skillset
03/01/21 Public sector IT departments have undergone sweeping modernization efforts, from virtualization and mobility to cloud computing and digital transformation. At the same tim…
Meet the New Old Guy on the Head Geek Team
02/26/21 Growing up in the suburbs of Seattle, WA, in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s was like most everyone else’s experiences. Dad worked as an analog computer engineer for a Boeing…
7 Things DBAs Should Do Before Going On Holiday
02/18/21 Thanks to 2020, many of us don’t remember the last time we took a holiday or vacation. If you were able to get away from the office, kudos to you. Hopefully, 2021 will be …