SolarWinds Database Portfolio Q2 2026 Product Update
The SolarWinds Database Portfolio Q2 2026 update highlights recent and upcoming enhancements across DPA, SQL Sentry, and SolarWinds Observability SaaS, focusing on practical AI int…
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Eoin Keenan
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How to Choose the Right Database Monitoring Solution From SolarWinds
This guide helps users select the appropriate SolarWinds database monitoring solution based on their specific environment and monitoring goals. It compares three key products: DPA …
The Database You Don’t Know About Is the One That Will Burn You: Why Database Discovery Matters
The article highlights the significant risk posed by “shadow” or unmonitored database instances that often go undetected within organizations. These temporary databases, left unpat…
Building AI-Ready Database Operations: A Deep Dive into Maturity and Actionable Habits
This article emphasizes that successful AI implementation in database operations relies heavily on strong foundational practices. Teams with unified monitoring, clear diagnostics (…
AI Won’t Fix a Broken System: Why Foundations Matter for Database Performance
12/15/25 Recent industry findings underscore this gap between ambition and readiness. In a large global survey of database professionals, 65% report using AI-assisted tuning, yet 7…
Why Adding Tools Can Make IT Worse
08/29/25 But somewhere along the way, the mission of observability—clarity, connection, and confidence—gets lost. What started as a strategy for resilience becomes a tangle of over…
The Risks of Procuring Software From Your Hardware Vendor
07/23/25 The truth is, in a world where hybrid and cloud-native infrastructure are the norm, tying your observability strategy to a single hardware vendor can lock you into a narro…
Failing to Keep Pace with Cloud-Native Transformation?
06/26/25 In this third article in a series discussing the five most common obstacles to achieving full-stack observability, let’s examine how digital transformation leads to visibi…
How Data Siloes Hinder Visibility and What to Do About It
05/21/25 How Specialization Became a Liability in IT Management In the early days of infrastructure monitoring, specialization was a strength. A network engineer could focus deeply…
5 Ways AIOps Can Transform Your IT Operations
03/27/25 In the hybrid era, it’s simply not feasible for humans to manage complex IT environments without intelligent automation. Cloud computing and big data have led to larger fl…
What Nature Can Teach Us About Alert Fatigue
02/20/25 Alert fatigue is a pervasive challenge in modern IT environments. When teams are inundated with false positives or low-priority notifications, it’s easy to lose sight of r…
Top 5 Obstacles to Observability in 2025
01/27/25 I’ve spent over 25 years in tech product marketing and customer support, working with pioneering companies like Dell/EMC, Apple, Keeper Security, and now, SolarWinds. In m…