The Big Players in Open Source
07/31/25 Perhaps you know SolarWinds as one of the market’s leading IT observability and monitoring vendors, so it’ll be no surprise to you that we are very engaged with the OpenTe…
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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 created their own WAF, a set of guidelines and tenets within categories called pill…
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 development timelines: technical debt. And it’s not just technical debt itself, but also a…
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: Rethinking Software’s Role in Business. So, are we really witnessing the death of S…
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 enterprises relying on Linux. Early in my career, I worked on IBM mainframes an…
Celebrating 50 Years of SQL
10/09/24 In 2024, the world of data management celebrates a significant milestone: the 50th anniversary of SQL (Structured Query Language). This half-century journey has seen SQL e…
Aligning Database Operations With DevOps
07/25/24 Even with dedicated database staff (often with impressive technical skills), businesses need help understanding how to address database issues. IT managers and database sp…
Last Call for THWACKcamp 2024
04/10/24 THWACKcamp is a free, annual, two-day digital IT learning event brought to you by SolarWinds, featuring expert speakers, interactive sessions, prizes, and more. For over t…
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 a three-part series of articles for Database Trends & Applications magazine. Ba…
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 organizations. When I was in college, the only person I heard of with this job title…
It’s a Wrap! THWACKCamp 2022 by the Numbers
03/10/22 THWACKcamp™ 2022 is a wrap, and the consensus is in: this was our best THWACKcamp yet. We really couldn’t have asked for better participation and engagement from our globa…
A Conversation With Aaron Bertrand
03/09/22 Back in the early days of Microsoft SQL Server, database administrators had few resources to draw upon and learn from. In the ’90s, we had SQL Server Professional, edited …