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Wireless Beyond Wi-Fi: Trends to Watch

06/22/20 For more than a decade, the face of wireless has been IEEE 802.11 WLANs, your typical Wi-Fi networks prevalent in every home and business. In 2020 and beyond, the line is …

SLOs: How to establish and define service level objectives

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Best practices for managing your SLOs with Datadog

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Gaming Groups in a Remote World

06/19/20 As we all come to terms with quarantine and shelter-in-place orders being extended for longer than most prepared for (both emotionally and in terms of our stash of snacks)…

The Next Norm: Prepare to Work-from-Anywhere (Part 1)

With the onset of the recent pandemic, countries across the globe reacted in unprecedented fashion to ‘flatten the curve’ by implementing shelter-in-place guidelines. Businesses re…

CMDB: Your Family Tree of Dependencies

06/18/20 Configuration items (CIs) in the configuration management database (CMDB) stores information regarding the relationships among its assets. IT configuration management is b…

Monitor HiveMQ with Datadog

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SentryOne Plan Explorer: An Origin Story

06/17/20 This year, SentryOne Plan Explorer is 10 years old. Recently, I reminisced with Greg Gonzalez (b|t) and Aaron Bertrand (b|t) about the decade-long journey of our favorite …

Building Stellar Orion Reports From the Ground Up – SolarWinds Lab Episode #88

06/17/20 Reports are among one of the most powerful and ubiquitous aspects of the Orion Platform. Despite being right at people’s fingertips, they’re often overlooked or under-appr…

Data Security and Privacy Techniques for Everyone

06/17/20 Everyone on the internet should follow good data security and privacy practices. And when I say everyone, I mean everyone. IT pros aren’t the only people who need to prote…

Best practices for creating end-to-end tests

This Datadog article highlights how Synthetic Monitoring proactively identifies issues *before* users do by simulating user behavior across the entire application journey – from we…

Four Ways Schools Can Futureproof Networks for an Esports Takeover

06/16/20 Esports is soaring in popularity in K–12 schools and in higher education as student gamers find a competitive and team-based outlet for their video gaming habits—playing n…