What is the cost of database performance for businesses today? The very shocking reality is most owners have absolutely no idea. In fact, I would even go so far as to say most business owners can’t even begin to understand everything this question might encompass.

As EVP, chief customer officer, I regularly speak with enterprise-level customers to provide continued support and strategize how SolarWinds can best support their goals. When my team or I meet with executives who have chosen to partner with us, we always start with two things in mind: 1) what the change looks like and 2) how we can facilitate it. Our goal is to provide solutions to the challenges our customers face.

Digital transformation is accelerating across organizations of all sizes around the world, and a survey by Mckinsey reveals COVID-19 accelerated the speed of adoption of digital technologies by several years.

When your network is slow or goes offline, it’s more than just an inconvenience, especially for organizations relying on the network for business. Outages and slow performance can cause significant downtime capable of hurting a company’s bottom line and even putting it at risk in the event of a security breach. A network monitoring system allows you to easily look into the different factors bogging down your bandwidth.

What are some common problems that can be detected with the handy router logs on Heroku? We’ll explore them and show you how to address them easily and quickly with monitoring of Heroku from SolarWinds Papertrail. One of the first cloud platforms, Heroku is a popular platform as a service (PaaS) that has been in development since June 2007.

The pandemic undoubtedly accelerated the growth of digital transformation and the rising use of open source, containers, and APIs. Along with this comes an even more pressing need to focus on software supply chain security. The exponential growth of applications and digital commerce has met with unprecedented security breaches.

Using the cloud can be challenging. Everyone likes to tell stories about a surprise cloud bill they received and laugh, but let’s be honest: it’s happened to all of us. When dealing with complex cloud environments and cloud-native architectures, gaining visibility into the state of the environment is critical. Today, developers are looking to monitor how things are working and performing as part of every step in the software development life cycle.

Early on in my career as a DBA, I began to realize I wasn’t a Database Administrator as much as the Default Blame Acceptor for nearly any application problem. Let’s face it—the first thing blamed when there’s an issue is typically going to be the database, and it’s a “guilty until proven otherwise” situation.