SolarWinds Blog

Solving the Toughest Problems in Federal Hybrid IT

07/31/25 It could mean connecting a remote employee at home just as securely as a team fighting wildfires in the mountains. It could mean giving the same visibility to someone at a…

The Big Players in Open Source

07/31/25 Perhaps you know SolarWinds as one of the market’s leading IT observability and monitoring vendors, so it’ll be no surprise to you that we are very engaged with the OpenTe…

Observability Tools Every Technical Writer Should Be Using

07/31/25 Erica Thomas manages the InfoDev team responsible for updating all user documentation for SolarWinds products. While documentation is often treated as a supporting resourc…

5 Things We Learned From the IT Trends Report 2025

07/31/25 Let’s look at five standout insights from this year’s research. Resilience Isn’t What Teams Think It Is Most respondents (about 90%) believe their organization is resilien…

Dispatches From the SolarWinds World Tour: Part 2

07/31/25 We checked in with SolarWinds Tech Evangelist Sascha Giese to hear what he’s been learning on the ground, from Warsaw to Dubai. Certification Builds More Than Skills At ou…

IT Trends Report 2025: What the Data Tells Us

07/29/25 The respondents were evenly divided among three roles–IT operations personnel, developers, and IT service management staff. They had a variety of experience levels, rangin…

THWACK Is Getting A Glow-Up

07/28/25 To better serve our users, customers, partners, and future members of the SolarWinds community, we’re migrating from our current community platform to a modernized, more p…

What We Learned From Our First Observability Masterclass

07/28/25 Host Chrystal Taylor dug deep with guests Sascha Giese and Chad Every to guide us through the finer details of observability today. An Introduction to Unified Visibility T…

The Risks of Procuring Software From Your Hardware Vendor

07/23/25 The truth is, in a world where hybrid and cloud-native infrastructure are the norm, tying your observability strategy to a single hardware vendor can lock you into a narro…

Systems Thinking: Insights Into Why Tools Fail

07/23/25 Systems thinking is an approach that encourages a deep examination of the complex web of people and processes that make up the organization. This method can reveal the rea…

SolarWinds Voices: Sascha Giese on TECHx

07/18/25 Is the Cloud Dream Fading, Or Just Evolving? In “Revisiting Cloud: Nuances of On-Prem Repatriation”, Sascha explores the shifting tides of cloud computing, where rising co…

Reliability In Cloud Computing: AWS vs Azure vs GCP Strategy Comparison

07/18/25 That’s where the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) comes in. All three hyperscalers have created their own WAF, a set of guidelines and tenets within categories called pill…