Recent Articles by Thomas LaRock

Analyzing the Micro Focus – OpenText Merger: Three Crucial Areas for Success

05/12/23 History is filled with examples of corporate mergers gone wrong. There’s AOL – Time War...

Why Enterprise Observability Is a Better Approach to Unified Monitoring

04/27/23 To say modern enterprises are built on the cloud is an understatement. According to Gartner...

What Databases Taught Me About Scaling Observability

01/10/23 I recently attended a virtual event and heard the speaker comment, “Relational databases ...

IT Trends Report Shows Experience Equals Confidence When Managing Complex IT Environments

09/23/22 Each year, SolarWinds publishes the IT Trends report, a collection of responses to survey q...

Let’s Recognize Awesome IT Pros for IT Pro Day 2022

08/18/22 As we ramp up for our seventh annual IT Pro Day, a day to honor and recognize all IT profes...

What Does Observability Mean For You?

04/14/22 Meanwhile, in a garage in Tulsa, Oklahoma, brothers Donald and David Yonce launched a netwo...

Benefits of DevOps

01/19/22 The term DevOps has taken the IT world by storm. Though every business incorporates DevOps ...

The Importance of Database Backups: A Guide to Costs, Benefits, and Risks

01/11/22 Data is the lifeblood of businesses, and protecting it is incredibly important. One of the ...

The Parallax View [of Your IT Career]

08/23/21 The Parallax View is a 1974 movie starring Warren Beatty. It’s one of many 1970s-style â€...

Sins of Data Management

07/01/21 Every company needs data for various reasons, but hoarding too much data can be a dangerous...