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…
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The Disappearing DBA: Career Advice From a Data Janitor — SolarWinds TechPod 049
09/28/21 The DBA role is complex. Pitfalls exist everywhere you turn, and it can be difficult to survive and thrive. On this episode of TechPod, we’ll help accidental DBAs become a…
The Questions You Should Ask Your Software Providers
09/27/21 Software providers everywhere are under attack by cyber threat actors. Whether it’s a ransomware, the latest zero-day exploit, or a highly sophisticated, well-resourced, a…
Is Application Sprawl in Government Really a Big Problem?
09/27/21 When considering whether to add more applications or monitoring components to your IT system, the answer should always be quality over quantity. Agencies often fall into t…
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…
Bug fixes!
This FireHydrant update includes several bug fixes improving usability and functionality. Specifically, saved searches now load correctly, action item lists are more complete, and …
Riverbed NetIM Revamps Alerting
If I had to pick one theme for the Riverbed NetIM infrastructure monitoring release (version 2.4), it would have to be new and improved alerting. We’ve reimagined the alerts page, …
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…
Best practices for writing incident postmortems
This article details how Datadog and ServiceNow integration streamlines incident response. By automatically creating ServiceNow incidents from Datadog alerts and enriching them wit…