Give Monitoring a Shot
05/04/21 If you hang out around a particular segment of the SolarWinds® crowd, you’re likely to hear the story of how monitoring helped one former Head Geek™ score front row ticket…
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Un-Excuse-ing Upgrades
04/30/21 When we talk about upgrades here at SolarWinds, we spend a lot of time discussing the beneficial features, performance, and capabilities you can gain. That’s not by accide…
Enterprise IT Cost Containment—A Series
03/23/21 H.L. Mencken once famously wrote, “…there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” More than just a pithy way to frame the entir…
Upgrade Tales From the Ticket Queue
03/05/21 As you might imagine, it’s a bit of a busy time here at SolarWinds HQ. There is A LOT going on, not the least of which is encouraging our customers to upgrade before March…
“SUDO Teach Me a Lesson”
03/02/21 The command “sudo” is an essential part of Vax, Unix, and Linux operating systems. It’s so intrinsic to how SysAdmins work, many consider “sudo” to be a built-in command a…
Change Is Hard
03/01/21 I.T. folks understand change can be hard, and I don’t mean in the “Who Moved My Cheese” kind of way. Change, as in “change control,” is necessary. But we don’t like the pr…
Anything But Soft: The Tech Skills You’ll Need For 2021
02/03/21 Recently, I was asked to comment on “…what skills IT practitioners should plan to learn or improve as we head into 2021.” While a few of those thoughts appeared online I w…
Your IT Life Coach for Monitoring
11/30/20 Your Monitoring IT Life Coach #1: Know the Basics The old saying about a hammer and a nail is as true here as it is anywhere else in IT. If the only technique you know is …
The Technology Companies Think They Can Live Without (and Why They’re Wrong)
11/17/20 When the value is obvious, most companies are willing to invest in tools to help employees get their job done better. But over the course of my career, I’ve noticed a few …
Tried and True Tech Tips
10/16/20 Anyone who’s worked in IT knows a great deal of the day-to-day work doesn’t come down to one secret trick—the job consists mainly of stringing together hard-won wisdom and…
Attitude Adjustment: Accentuate the Positive
09/23/20 Experienced IT practitioners know applications and solutions—whether off-the-shelf, customized, or built from scratch—are rarely a perfect fit. Inevitably, something doesn…
2020: The Year IT Pros Were Built For
08/17/20 The theme for IT Pro Day 2020 is “You Were Built for This” and, while we knew it could be relevant in almost any minute of any day of any year, it seems exceptionally, esp…