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Five Samanage Customers on the Benefits of the Service Catalog

05/22/18 One thing we find is that many new customers are surprised by how many parts of multi-step services they can automate through the service catalog. They might not have chos…

I Beat Them to Firing Me! Part Two: Fight Back

05/17/18 How to use network configuration, change, and compliance management (NCCCM) and other monitoring software in response to an actual security breach. If you have not read pa…

I Beat Them to Firing Me: A Story of Corporate Sabotage

05/17/18 Why network configuration, change, and compliance management (NCCCM) is a must Inspired by former Citibank employee sentencing We’ve all heard horror stories about the dis…

How This Organization Built an Employee Service Machine

05/17/18 Gardner knew that IT could set up similar processes through Samanage, and to his credit, he also recognized that the entire organization could run services through one fam…

Cloud Native Operational Solutions – Patch Management

05/17/18 Patch management at any sort of scale has always been a mundane and time-consuming task that most administrators would like to avoid at all costs. With the proliferation o…

Cloud Native Operational Solutions – Backup Management

05/17/18 Public cloud providers have greatly simplified the process of creating a backup, but the challenge has always been managing that at scale with things like policies for ret…

Cloud Native Operational Solutions – Configuration Management

05/17/18 One of the biggest draws of the public cloud includes services like managed Kubernetes or server-less functions. Managed services like these enable IT organizations to con…

4 Causes of IT Help Desk Breakdowns & Issues

05/15/18 Because there’s now such a heavy reliance on devices, applications, and other common business technology, the IT help desk bears a heavy burden in everyday business functi…

SolarWinds Lab Episode 59: Cisco ASA Firewall Special: VPN, ACL, HA, Multi-context, and More

05/15/18 Cisco ASAs are the world’s most popular security appliance. Getting them online with basic firewall features is one thing, but how do you ensure you’re really protecting y…

SolarWinds Lab Episode 54: Monitoring 201

05/15/18 In this episode, Head Geeks Thomas LaRock and Leon Adato discuss the evolution of life as a system administrator, how simplistic alerts are not as helpful as you might hop…

SolarWinds Lab Episode 45: Hacking the Internet with NetPath™

05/15/18 NetPath™ is a revolutionary and powerful new approach to visually discover and monitor networks. This episode of SolarWinds Lab dives into advanced network troubleshooting…

Deploying and configuring Datadog with Chef roles

This article details how to effectively monitor your Chef infrastructure using Datadog. By leveraging Datadog's Chef integration, users can gain real-time visibility into Chef serv…