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New in Applications Manager: Unified monitoring for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager

ManageEngine Applications Manager has introduced a new integration that provides centralized, full-s...

Meet your new support sidekick: AI-assisted live chat is in Applications Manager

ManageEngine has introduced an AI Assistant for Live Chat Support in Applications Manager to provide...

Meet your new support sidekick: AI-assisted live chat is in Applications Manager

ManageEngine has launched an AI Assistant for live chat support in Applications Manager to provide i...

Applications Manager now integrates with your SIEM platform!

Applications Manager now integrates with popular SIEM platforms like Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel, ...

Applications Manager now officially supports Podman monitoring!

The article argues that while AWS provides basic monitoring tools, they are insufficient for compreh...

Why native AWS monitoring alone is not enough for modern applications

Applications Manager now includes full monitoring support for Podman, a daemonless container engine....

SolarWinds Observability: Helping to Accelerate Application Development

02/01/23 By Scott Sinclair, Enterprise Strategy Group Practice Director; and Monya Keane, Senior Res...

What to Know Before Becoming an Application Engineer

12/14/22 This article was updated on August 28th 2024 Application engineers, sometimes called softwa...

Five Reasons Why Python Is Popular

10/06/22 One of my first projects as a consultant created a web application for a small tax software...

What’s a Webhook?

08/05/22 If you’re a developer or site reliability engineer, you might have noticed options to use...

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...

What Is Distributed Tracing? Key Concepts and Definition

01/28/22 Back in the day, monitoring applications from end to end was—for the most part—signific...

How the U.S. State Department Can Overcome the Trade-Offs of its Multi-Cloud Strategy

11/22/21 The U.S. State Department has a global workforce of 69,000 across more than 270 diplomatic ...

Is Application Sprawl in Government Really a Big Problem?

09/27/21 When considering whether to add more applications or monitoring components to your IT syste...

How the Pandemic Impacted the Government’s Cloud Migration Plans

08/30/21 “Cloud-first” has been a government imperative for many years, but the pandemic usurped...

Monitoring Could Prove to Be a Lifesaver for the Public Sector

07/19/21 One of the business consequences from the pandemic—increased remote working—is causing ...

How is Cloud Adoption Changing Public School Education?

07/06/21 As the past year has shown, cloud computing has proved a vital service for K–12 public sc...

What Agencies Should Consider Regarding Multi-Cloud Implementations

05/10/21 According to a 2020 survey from IDG, 55% of organizations use two or more public clouds. Ye...

CostOps: The Overlooked Developer Responsibility

05/03/21 Developers are the kingmakers. Millions of decisions made by tens of thousands of developer...

Hybrid IT and Virtualized Workloads Preparing for a Shift to Microsoft Azure

04/26/21 Though government agencies continue to move to the cloud to accelerate their digital transf...

Outdated Calculus of Cloud Cost Containment

04/20/21 “Cost” would seem to underpin almost every decision IT teams make. Sure, business requi...

Cloud Migration: A Race You Shouldn’t Try to Win

04/19/21 The race to cloud migration can seem like a good idea for most businesses, but a common tre...

How Important Are Application Performance Metrics to Mission Success?

04/12/21 Federal IT pros have tracked application performance for decades. Today’s environments ar...

Best Practices for Monitoring Your End-User Experience – SolarWinds Lab Episode #94

03/04/21 Knowing if a server has high CPU is helpful, but does it really matter if your end users ca...

Monitoring Challenges Emerge as Agencies Embrace Container Technology

02/15/21 Container technology is catching on big-time in the federal government as agencies such as ...

Taking an API-First Approach to Network Management

02/08/21 Application programming interfaces (APIs) allow applications to communicate, interoperate, ...

Infrastructure Monitoring Status? It’s Complicated.

12/11/20 Moving to the cloud and into hybrid environments—even in the past year—has created seve...

Handle With Care: The Many Ways Modern Web Applications Can Break

12/09/20 Legacy applications used to be monolithic, often with the database, code, and web server on...

Determining the Most Important Application Availability and Performance Signals

11/06/20 There’s a time-tested saying in IT: zero sensors, zero incidents. What goes unmeasured go...

Five Steps to Developing an Application Modernization Strategy

11/02/20 Supporting legacy applications is problematic for several reasons. These aging systems are ...

Can You Consistently Deliver the Digital Experience You’ve Promised?

10/20/20 If the users aren’t happy, then in short order, neither will anyone else be. The ubiquity...

Frequently Asked Questions About Application Performance

10/09/20 Digital transformation is changing the way companies do business, putting pressure on IT to...

Checklist for Application Performance and Availability

10/07/20 Given the increasing complexity IT infrastructures (network, storage, compute, platforms, e...

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 ma...

How to Ensure and Optimize Application Performance

09/14/20 Application performance management (APM) involves managing the availability and performance...

Hybrid Cloud Monitoring: Take It to Twitter

09/02/20 If you’ve run across other articles I’ve written about hybrid cloud, you’ll notice a ...

Tips for Success When Implementing Your Transformation Initiative

08/31/20 Change isn’t without its detractors in terms of people and systems. A misstep in expandin...

Accidental Cloud Administrator

08/14/20 Accidental DBA is a term most IT pros are familiar with, and traditionally it describes an ...

Are Cloud Computing Engineers the Missing Link on Your Federal IT Team?

08/11/20 Cloud computing can be more complex than anticipated, particularly as agencies continue to ...

Suggested Cloud Monitoring Strategies for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

07/07/20 From the Cloud First policy established in 2010 to last year’s Cloud Smart update, it’s...

Becoming Hybrid: Operating Your Cloud Environment

07/06/20 It’s a day for celebration! Our migration is complete, and our applications are now runni...

The Best Way to Make Your Application Faster

07/01/20 There are two easy ways to make your cloud application faster and they’re homonyms; cash ...

Developers Are Not Building Shiny New Things

06/26/20 Some, maybe. But not most. Look, I have this theory. I also have data. And as with most sto...

Three Ways Federal Agencies Can Manage and Secure Their Hybrid Data Centers

06/23/20 As hybrid environments become more popular, federal IT teams are faced with managing and se...

DOD’s Cloud Strategy Aids Information Dominance

05/19/20 The DOD cloud strategy recognizes the department’s disjointed and siloed systems have neg...

Digital Transformation – Simplified

05/18/20 Now, here’s the thing—digital transformation is such a broad term, you probably could p...

The Importance of Applications for Business Success

05/17/20 In developed economies, people who don’t use information technology are rare. Organizatio...

How Ops Teams Can Leverage APM to Meet Modern Requirements

05/16/20 Many components of cloud and SaaS technology are incredibly useful, but the hairball of hyb...

Getting “Cloud Smart” Requires Focus on Security, Procurement, and Workforce Training

05/12/20 The federal government’s 2019 Federal Cloud Computing Strategy — Cloud Smart calls for ...

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