Recent Articles by Kevin Kline

The Big Players in Open Source

07/31/25 Perhaps you know SolarWinds as one of the market’s leading IT observability and monitorin...

Reliability In Cloud Computing: AWS vs Azure vs GCP Strategy Comparison

07/18/25 That’s where the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) comes in. All three hyperscalers have c...

In Praise of Maintenance: Strategies to Conquer Technical Debt

04/25/25 We’re all fighting the silent killer of limited IT budgets and tight application developm...

Is the SaaS Era Coming to an End?

01/14/25 Forbes recently took up Lessing’s claim in an article entitled The End of the SaaS Era: R...

SolarWinds + Open-Source Software Contributions = Community Goodness

10/31/24 Many IT professionals think of open-source software (OSS) as primarily used in startups and...

Celebrating 50 Years of SQL

10/09/24 In 2024, the world of data management celebrates a significant milestone: the 50th annivers...

Aligning Database Operations With DevOps

07/25/24 Even with dedicated database staff (often with impressive technical skills), businesses nee...

Last Call for THWACKcamp 2024

04/10/24 THWACKcamp is a free, annual, two-day digital IT learning event brought to you by SolarWind...

The Present and Future of Data Management Roles

11/07/23 In January 2015, I wrote about the future of professional database administrators (DBAs) in...

Importance of Data Stewards for Master Data Management: The Power of a Single Version of the Truth

05/04/22 Not many years ago, the role of the data steward was the domain of the world’s largest or...