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Simplifying Cloud Database Migration Journeys

COVID-19 was a significant driving force for organisational change. Businesses had to quickly transition to remote working almost overnight, and digital transformation became crucial for companies to survive. Because of this, the pandemic notably accelerated a swift move to the cloud, with cloud-first organisations now outnumbering on-premises companies by a ratio of three-to-one. A whopping 81% of organisations said they had accelerated their cloud timelines and plans due to the pandemic.

What Is Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)? The SRE Role Explained

Historically, there was a clear delineation between what system administrators (SysAdmins) do and what application developers are responsible for in IT organizations. In recent years—especially in organizations focused on software development—these worlds have come together as IT operations and development teams adopt DevOps practices. The concept of site reliability engineering (SRE) was first introduced by a much-discussed book titled Site Reliability Engineering from Google.

How to Optimize Your WordPress Site With Pingdom Real User Monitoring

To keep their applications and websites available and accessible, today’s businesses put a lot of emphasis on infrastructure monitoring to ensure their servers are healthy and running. Amid the hustle, many companies overlook the need to monitor a different aspect of their application: user experience.

How We Monitor Elasticsearch With Metrics and Logs

As an architect at SolarWinds, it's essential to work with our own monitoring tools as a form of quality control and source for innovation. As one of the largest players in the IT monitoring and management world, we're always thinking about ways to make it seamless for customers to work across our suite of tools. One of those tools I'll focus on today is SolarWinds® Loggly®—our log management and analytics product, which is also a part of our APM integrated experience.

SQL Sentry Advisory Conditions Tutorials

As a customer success engineer, I hear directly from customers about what issues they need help solving with SolarWinds SQL Sentry®. This insight first motivated me to create posts for the SQL Sentry Tips & Tricks series, which explains how to get the most out of SQL Sentry. Now, I’d like to create more tutorials about what I consider to be one of the most powerful features in SQL Sentry: Advisory Conditions.

SolarWinds Aims to Set New Standard in Software Development With Next-Generation Build System

At SolarWinds, we believe security should be a core competency of all organizations. The December 2020 SUNBURST cyberattack on the SolarWinds software build environment emphasized a concerning new reality for the software industry and illuminated the increasingly sophisticated threats made by outside nation-states to the supply chains and infrastructure on which we all rely.

How We Monitor Elasticsearch With Metrics and Logs

As an architect at SolarWinds, it’s essential to work with our own monitoring tools as a form of quality control and source for innovation. As one of the largest players in the IT monitoring and management world, we’re always thinking about ways to make it seamless for customers to work across our suite of tools. One of those tools I’ll focus on today is SolarWinds® Loggly®—our log management and analytics product, which is also a part of our APM integrated experience.

A Conversation With Aaron Bertrand

Back in the early days of Microsoft SQL Server, database administrators had few resources to draw upon and learn from. In the ’90s, we had SQL Server Professional, edited by Karen Watterson. We had CompuServe forums for SQL Server and Sybase. We had Microsoft documentation, which meant three printed books with no books online.