01/20/21 We released a survey asking managers what questions they had for their teams to help them better understand monitoring as a whole and to better relate to their teams. Sola…
01/13/21 If you start talking about “soft” skills, some IT pros will roll their eyes. Calling them “soft” skills in the first place can seem insulting, but what we’re really talkin…
12/29/20 The sophistication and technological attributes of the recent SUNBURST supply chain attack against SolarWinds is of great concern to us and to our customers, and we hope t…
12/24/20 Over the last few days, third parties and the media publicly reported on a malware, now referred to as SUPERNOVA. Based on our investigation, this malware could be deploye…
12/18/20 The SolarWinds team is solely focused on our customers and the industry we serve. Our top priority has been to take the steps necessary to ensure that our and our customer…
12/17/20 We soon discovered that we had been the victim of a malicious cyberattack that impacted our Orion Platform products as well as our internal systems. While security profess…
12/11/20 Moving to the cloud and into hybrid environments—even in the past year—has created several changes, but what does this mean for IT pros? The evolution to modern applicatio…
12/09/20 Legacy applications used to be monolithic, often with the database, code, and web server on a single host. But modern apps are different—they use more microservices, conta…
12/09/20 The answer to upleveling your career as an IT pro? Learn how to “people” better. Creating a beneficial environment for tech pros means being relatable and able to explain …
12/03/20 Though burnout is often stigmatized, it’s a real issue. Many things can lead to burnout in IT: dealing with shrinking IT budgets, 100% uptime, and an ever-changing landsca…
11/25/20 While application performance monitoring can provide us with metrics on software use and delays, SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) was built to tell us storie…
11/20/20 IT Ops and security teams don’t always have a perfect relationship. While IT Ops teams are focused on making work and communication seamless and accessible (and therefore …