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 hybrid IT is anything but. And the cross-hairs of complexity are firmly centered in…
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Patrick Hubbard
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Work-From-Home Whiplash
05/04/20 Global pandemic is a helluva way to learn work from home. After 20+ years of working in an office, it’s been a far bigger change than I’d imagined. Especially if you’re ac…
20 Years of Your Expertise
01/02/20 Sometimes it’s hard to believe SolarWinds turned 20 this year. That’s eons to survive as an independent software company, much less to have grown into an industry leader. …
IT Pro Day 2019: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
09/10/19 Even after all these years in technology, I remain in awe of IT pros. Watching my kids’ classes, it seems everyone—including elementary school students and other civilians…
How to Protect Yourself When Your Software Vendor Has Been Acquired
08/19/19 While we all know mergers and acquisitions are common in competitive markets, end users often don’t get insight into the reasoning behind the purchase or takeover. While t…
Monitoring, Tracing, and Observability: Choose Two?
10/19/18 While it’s inevitable that new technologies usually create new business opportunities, they also often create new problems for IT pros to solve. It’s a natural cycle for o…
THWACKcamp2018 Preview – “Observability”: Just a Fancy Word for “Monitoring”? A Journey from What to Why
09/27/18 Have you registered for THWACKcamp™ 2018? What are you waiting for? This year’s event offers multiple sessions from both industry experts and SolarWinds Head Geeks™ on top…
THWACKcamp 2018 Preview – Monitoring Microservices: IT’s Newest Hot Mess
09/21/18 It’s almost that time of year! We’re in full preparation mode for THWACKcamp™ 2018 and can’t wait for you to experience our sessions. Covering everything from network moni…
Happy IT Pro Day 2018
09/18/18 Perhaps the best part of being an IT pro—of being a technology professional in general—is that you don’t really have a choice. It’s an irrepressible self-nomination to a t…
THWACKcamp 2018 Registration Now Open
08/01/18 When the IT Show Comes to Town In the past, I’ve compared the logistics of tech conferences, tradeshows, and user groups to moon landings, touring companies, and polar exp…
Are You Getting Full Benefit of your IT Monitoring Tools?
10/01/15 In both cases we thought we were covered and our monitoring systems had our back. As it turns out, that’s a more common situation than it should be, and following a few be…
Why You Still Need Network Alerts
09/01/15 Retracing an intractable alert hairball today, I’m reminded of how critical, and often critically broken, alerting actually is in many environments. You can be a departmen…