Recent Articles by Brandon Shopp

The Sun’s Setting on Cisco Prime Infrastructure, Rising on SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability

04/21/23 Cisco recently announced its plan to End of Life (EOL) Cisco Prime Infrastructure. While th...

SolarWinds Day Recap: What You May Have Missed

02/22/23 Our second SolarWinds Day was another success! For our second SolarWinds Day, we focused on...

Three Ways a Proactive Defense Strategy Can Prevent Cyberattacks

08/04/22 Schools and local municipalities have always been vulnerable to cyberattacks, but in recent...

Winning Over the Skeptics: How SD-WAN Is Transforming Government Networks

05/23/22 Are software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) worth the hype? Read below as our own Bra...

Three Ways COVID-19 Altered Federal, State IT Budget Allocations

05/09/22 Wondering how the pandemic affected your agency’s budget? Brandon Shopp answers this ques...

The Growth of milCloud 2.0 Demands a New Monitoring Approach

02/28/22 The addition of Amazon Web Services and VMware to the Defense Department’s milCloud 2.0 c...

Virtualized Databases: Friend or Foe to Federal IT Pros?

02/14/22 Federal IT pros have historically had limited time and resources; this makes it crucial to ...

Security Apathy Is Real – Here Are 5 Ways Agencies Can Combat It

01/31/22 A new study—the SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2021—suggests, although tech pros are confi...

What Is DataOps and How Does it Impact Data Management?

01/17/22 Government IT administrators manage several different types of operations. There’s DevOps...

Three Preventative Strategies to Help Mitigate Asset Risk in Your Agency

01/03/22 For many federal employees, the workplace has shifted from a traditional office setting to ...