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Step Into My Headphones

09/28/21 When I first started listening to podcasts, I was in a musical lull. Despite my affinity for creating playlists and tracking new releases, I was anything but excited to li…

The Other Side of the Mic

09/24/21 International Podcast Day is coming up, and, in case you missed it, SolarWinds has its own podcast called TechPod, so we want to celebrate! Much of the time one of us (Hea…

Speaking Up: Bridging the Space Between the Idea and the Publish Button

09/22/21 Podcasting is, and has been, the rage for a while now. What electronic self-publishing tools did to open up and democratize written content, podcasts have done for the are…

Bring IT On in the Year of the Ox

09/21/21 IT Pro Day is here, and it feels like the new year in IT! It’s a time to reflect on lessons from the past year and celebrate your achievements while setting goals for the …

Everything I Needed to Know About IT I Learned From The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Part Two)

09/20/21 (This piece was co-authored by Alex Taylor and Leon Adato) As we did in our first installment, we want to provide fair warning: spoilers lie ahead. If, even after all this…

Everything I Needed to Know About IT I Learned From The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (Part One)

09/17/21 (This piece was co-authored by Alex Taylor and Leon Adato) Before we take flight here, let me start with fair warning—this article contains several spoilers for The Falcon…

IT Pros to the World: Bring IT On

09/01/21 That’s what they say. Bring it on. I’m ready for this. I’m prepared. But no one could prep for what happened and how things evolved, right? So is preparation not necessary…

The Parallax View [of Your IT Career]

08/23/21 The Parallax View is a 1974 movie starring Warren Beatty. It’s one of many 1970s-style “conspiracy” movies, if you’re looking for something else to binge while we ride out…

Resilient Infrastructure for a Secure Future

08/19/21 Each year, SolarWinds® surveys IT professionals around the world to gauge what’s most pressing on their minds, but also to understand their organization’s challenges and h…

Peer Recognition and Why It Matters

08/16/21 There should always be opportunities to laud our peers’ achievements and good work. One of the things I’ve noticed (at least here in America) is we tend to speak up about …

What’s Your IT Pro Journey?

08/09/21 Last week, my friend and colleague Leon Adato (t | b) introduced 2021’s IT Pro Day theme “Bring IT On” and observed an IT pros’ life experiences helped to form the foundat…

IT Pro Day ’21: Bring IT On

08/02/21 IT Pro Day has always been about singing the praises of practitioners across the vast spectrum of tech specialties, from network engineers and systems administrators; to i…