SolarWinds Blog

Unplanned Obsolescence

12/18/19 As we head into the new year, people will once again start quoting a popular list describing the things kids starting college in 2020 will never personally experience. Exa…

Using User Access Management to Defend Against Insider Threats

12/17/19 According to the SolarWinds 2019 Cybersecurity Survey, cybersecurity threats are increasing—particularly the threat of accidental data exposure from people inside the agen…

[De]Constructing Cloud With Mike Pfeiffer — SolarWinds TechPod 021

12/17/19 On this episode of SolarWinds TechPod, our host Patrick Hubbard, SolarWinds Head Geek, is joined by Mike Pfeiffer, a twenty-year tech industry veteran who’s worked for som…

Don’t Let Technical Debt Be Your Company’s Subprime Loan: Mapping Your Way to Better Software

12/16/19 I was in the pub recently for the local quiz and afterwards, I got talking to someone I hadn’t seen for a while. After a few minutes, we started discussing a certain app h…

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…

Just Throw It in the Cloud! The Battle of the Clouds Series

12/13/19 Scenario: a mission-critical application is having performance issues during peak business hours. App developers blame the storage. The storage team blames the network. Th…

Uniting IT Operations and IT Service Management 101

12/12/19 Having both a positive employee experience and employee engagement are key factors for an organization’s success. In a recent SolarWinds survey, over 85% of IT pros said t…

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…

How to Configure an Office 365 Tenant

12/11/19 Introduction I’m going to look at the basic steps required for setting up an Office 365 tenant. There are a few ways you can purchase Office 365. There’s the good old cred…