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3 Foundational Elements of Zero Trust You Can’t Do Without

07/27/20 While the concept of zero-trust security has many IT organizations thinking in terms of identity, access, and cloud services, zero trust must run on a solid foundation. We…

Using Non-Enterprise Gear in an Enterprise World

07/24/20 Different IT organizations have different needs. The one-man shop might find the best success with open-source software, while enterprises often need something a little mo…

SD-WAN or WAN Optimization?

SD-WAN or WAN Optimization? I love that question. And, in order to answer it correctly, let me first dispel a common misperception. The question assumes SD-WAN and WAN Optimization…

Save the Date Because THWACKcamp Is Back

07/22/20 The IT Knowledge Fest—THWACKcamp—is back for another year of spectacular content in 2020. In this, the ninth year of THWACKcamp, you’ll join with thousands of other techno…

3 Ways to Maintain Your Agency’s Focus on IT Modernization

07/21/20 Congress set the stage for IT modernization across the federal government by passing the Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act, allowing agencies to apply for a loan…

Managed Desktop Devices at Scale — SolarWinds TechPod 029

07/21/20 What do IT managers and managed service providers (MSPs) have in common? They both manage a sea of desktop devices. Join the SolarWinds MSP™ Head Nerds while they discuss …

Best practices for maintaining end-to-end tests

This Datadog article highlights how Synthetic Monitoring proactively identifies issues *before* real users encounter them by simulating user behavior across websites and applicatio…

Is This Real Life? An Unconventional Path to Head Geek

07/20/20 My Leslie Knope Moment Long-time listener, first time caller Liz Beavers here… Head Geek? It’s like when Leslie Knope won the election for Pawnee City Council. I’m pinchin…

Datadog API client libraries now available for Java and Go

This Datadog article details how to build effective executive dashboards by focusing on key business metrics, not just technical details. It emphasizes using clear visualizations, …

Webinar: Microsoft and Riverbed on Work-From-Anywhere Challenges and Exciting New Cloud Innovations

Are you using collaboration apps, joining video events and streaming more video? Of course you are — we all are! With the onset of COVID-19, businesses responded almost immediately…

Friendship Is Magic. And Harder Than It Looks.

07/17/20 Building relationships is no easy feat. It’s been my experience that it’s common for people (especially, but not exclusively, men) to connect with each other through activ…

How Gremlin monitors its own Chaos Engineering service with Datadog

This article details how to integrate Apache JMeter, a popular load testing tool, with Datadog for comprehensive performance monitoring. By utilizing the Datadog JMeter plugin, use…