Synthetic Monitoring: A Key Tool for Hybrid Enterprises
While the benefits of cloud infrastructure and applications continue to drive enterprises to direct more of their IT investments in that direction, the cloud is certainly not a pan…
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Cloud Native, You Keep Using Those Words
09/25/20 Ask a hundred IT pros and their managers what “cloud native” is, and you’ll get as many different definitions. In part it’s because public cloud providers (PCPs) seek to p…
Ensure Efficient, Secure, Easy-to-Use Digital Government Services
COVID-19 has offered a glimpse into the future delivery of a broad range of digital government services. Healthcare particularly has been at the forefront of an accelerated shift t…
Public Sector App Performance Doesn’t Have to Be Unpredictable
SteelHead SaaSIt’s fair to say that 2020 has been an unpredictable year for many, including those in the public sector. With millions of people now living at work—my preferred vers…
Securing Government’s Weakest Work-from-Home Links
If asked who or what is driving your organisation’s digital transformation, how would you answer? Is it your CEO? Chief Technology Officer? For many, the answer is COVID-19. This c…
Best practices for monitoring AWS CloudTrail logs
This article details how to use Datadog to monitor audit logs from Amazon FSx, AWS's fully managed file storage service. By forwarding FSx logs to Datadog, users can gain visibilit…
Attitude Adjustment: Accentuate the Positive
09/23/20 Experienced IT practitioners know applications and solutions—whether off-the-shelf, customized, or built from scratch—are rarely a perfect fit. Inevitably, something doesn…
Skip the Blame Game—Go Straight to the Data
09/22/20 You can tell the quality of a group, department, or organization not by how things go during the good times, but how they go during the challenging times. It doesn’t take …
Don’t Let Cyberattacks Derail Your Digital Transformation Journey
09/22/20 The more applications, information, and processes living in the digital environment, the more opportunities there are for black hats. Unfortunately, the enormous value pla…
IT Pro Day 2020: You Were Built for This — SolarWinds TechPod 032
09/22/20 Every year, on the third Tuesday of September, we celebrate IT Pro Day – a day set aside to recognize all tech pros and the work they do. For some obvious reasons, this ye…
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The Datadog and Kafka integration allows for comprehensive monitoring of Kafka clusters and applications, providing visibility into key metrics like message latency, consumer lag, …
The Importance of “Soft” Skills in the Digital Age
09/21/20 First, I hate the term “soft” skills. I prefer we call them essential or non-technical skills or even essential non-technical skills, as that would be more accurate and no…