SolarWinds Blog

Tech Career Origin Stories — SolarWinds TechPod 047

08/31/21 The tech industry is booming, and there are many opportunities to transition from other career paths – or to change your path within tech. Join Head Geek Chrystal Taylor a…

How the Pandemic Impacted the Government’s Cloud Migration Plans

08/30/21 “Cloud-first” has been a government imperative for many years, but the pandemic usurped this strategy, making “cloud-now” a priority. The results have been transformationa…

Making Your Service Desk the GOAT

08/24/21 Imagine every time you visited the service desk to submit a ticket, you were greeted by the boisterous drums from the medley of the Olympics—you’d feel like a gold medalis…

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 …

Systems Management Named Biggest Area for IT Professional Development

08/16/21 The 2020 SolarWinds® IT Pro Day survey looked at the changing roles and responsibilities of IT pros throughout the pandemic. Overall, nearly two-thirds of surveyed IT pros…

You Can Only Fix What You Measure (So Measure What You Want to Fix)

08/13/21 Recently, my colleagues Pete Di Stefano, Ashley Adams, and I hosted a webcast on the topic of capacity planning and optimization. You can listen/watch it here, it was a re…

The Service Desk and Parenthood’s Shared Classroom

08/11/21 This past April, my husband and I took on our most exciting and daunting chapter yet: parenthood. Despite the chaos around us, we made the most of our pregnancy and thorou…

Exploring Your Data Universe

08/10/21 You can learn a lot about an organization by looking at their data. For example, if I see “LoanToValue” (LTV) or “CollateralValue,” I could surmise they deal with financia…

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…

A DBA’s Perspective: What Is DevOps?

08/04/21 If you’ve worked in IT in recent years, you’re no doubt familiar with the term “DevOps.” Accelerating the pace of development and faster delivery of new features is the go…