Database

Thoughts on the VividCortex Acquisition

12/20/19 I visited the Austin office this past week, my last trip to SolarWinds HQ for 2019. It’s always fun to visit Austin and eat my weight in pork products, but this week was b…

Quicker Azure Monitoring, Linux Change Detection, New API Poller – SolarWinds Lab #82 (Part 2)

12/19/19 The first step in improving system monitoring and visibility is getting data flowing sooner rather than later. For systems engineers managing diverse resources, it can be …

Holt-Winters Forecasting and Exponential Smoothing Simplified

12/15/19 Holt-Winters forecasting is a way to model and predict the behavior of a sequence of values over time—a time series. Holt-Winters is one of the most popular forecasting te…

Lockdown: Improving SQL Server Performance for Vendor-Locked Applications

12/13/19 Application vendors support many customers, and they often need to impose some control over variables in order to do so. For example, for me to help someone with the perfo…

Boosting Orion Platform Performance With New Maps, Syslog/Trap Engines – SolarWinds Lab #82 (Part 1)

12/11/19 Want to learn a couple of easy ways to increase performance of your SolarWinds Orion Platform? Of course you do! In this networking-focused part one of our year-end perfor…

When “Good Enough” Is Costing You Money

12/11/19 In 2015, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security carried out covert tests on TSA Security at major airports to see how successful they would be at detecting potentially d…

VividCortex is Joining SolarWinds!

12/11/19 We’re excited to share that VividCortex is now part of the SolarWinds® family. We believe this change will help to accelerate the adoption of our product as well as the pa…

Three Reasons Your Cloud Database Migration Will Fail

12/02/19 Moving relational data to cloud platforms has emerged as a “last frontier” for cloud-age computing. It is easy to consider the behemoth systems in place at large enterpris…

Why SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) Uses MySQL

11/30/19 This post was featured in our July 2015 anthology of most popular SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) blog posts of all time. With all the choice of database sys…

How Does AI Benefit the Tech World?

11/25/19 For some, artificial intelligence (AI) can be a scary technology. There are so many articles on the web about how AI will end up replacing X% of IT jobs by Y year. There’s…

Warning! A Robot Will Do Your Job Soon

11/08/19 Everyone take a deep breath and calm down. The likeliness of a robot taking over your job any time soon is very low. Yes, artificial intelligence (AI) is a growing trend, …

Scaling Up and Out With Microsoft Azure

11/01/19 Your infrastructure doesn’t just exist in your building or your physical data center anymore. Critical applications and services can live anywhere. What started with hardw…