Applications

What Agencies Should Consider Regarding Multi-Cloud Implementations

05/10/21 According to a 2020 survey from IDG, 55% of organizations use two or more public clouds. Yet 79% of these adopters struggle to achieve synergy across multiple platforms. T…

CostOps: The Overlooked Developer Responsibility

05/03/21 Developers are the kingmakers. Millions of decisions made by tens of thousands of developers are ultimately responsible for the triumph or tragedy of IT. Developers for co…

Hybrid IT and Virtualized Workloads Preparing for a Shift to Microsoft Azure

04/26/21 Though government agencies continue to move to the cloud to accelerate their digital transformation plans, the majority have embraced a hybrid IT environment. This mix of …

Outdated Calculus of Cloud Cost Containment

04/20/21 “Cost” would seem to underpin almost every decision IT teams make. Sure, business requirements drive overall operations budgets, but it’s always in tension with decades-ol…

Cloud Migration: A Race You Shouldn’t Try to Win

04/19/21 The race to cloud migration can seem like a good idea for most businesses, but a common trend has been to get there as soon as possible. Much like with the story of the to…

How Important Are Application Performance Metrics to Mission Success?

04/12/21 Federal IT pros have tracked application performance for decades. Today’s environments are far more complex than they’ve ever been, particularly with the quick and steady …

Best Practices for Monitoring Your End-User Experience – SolarWinds Lab Episode #94

03/04/21 Knowing if a server has high CPU is helpful, but does it really matter if your end users can still access their apps without performance issues? If you’re only monitoring …

Monitoring Challenges Emerge as Agencies Embrace Container Technology

02/15/21 Container technology is catching on big-time in the federal government as agencies such as the USDA and the National Institutes of Health look to containers to simplify so…

Taking an API-First Approach to Network Management

02/08/21 Application programming interfaces (APIs) allow applications to communicate, interoperate, and share information with one another. APIs have been mainstays at companies li…

Infrastructure Monitoring Status? It’s Complicated.

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…

Handle With Care: The Many Ways Modern Web Applications Can Break

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…

Determining the Most Important Application Availability and Performance Signals

11/06/20 There’s a time-tested saying in IT: zero sensors, zero incidents. What goes unmeasured goes unmaintained, unmanaged, and ultimately unprotected. But measurement is no simp…