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Financial Impact of an Outage

Jun 28, 2022 By Pingdom In SolarWinds
In October 2021, the world’s largest social media platform suffered a massive worldwide outage affecting billions of customers. Facebook has a monthly active user base of 2.8 billion users, which increases to 3.5 billion when you include its subsidiaries such as Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus. The platform succumbed to a “Gigalapse,” which happens when a server can’t adequately respond to excessive demand.
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Annual Study: Hybrid IT Acceleration Has Increased Network Complexity and Lowered Tech Pros' Network Management Confidence

Jun 14, 2022 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2022-Getting IT Right: Managing Hybrid IT Complexity examines the current state and areas of opportunity for technology professionals managing increased complexity as hybrid IT accelerates. The continued shift to hybrid IT drives increased levels of IT management complexity, but tech pros feel a lack of confidence in how to best manage it. Nearly half (44%) of tech pros said their organization manages hybrid IT complexity through training staff and adopting IT monitoring/management tools (37%)
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Simplify DigitalOcean Application and Infrastructure Monitoring

Jun 7, 2022 By Papertrail Team In SolarWinds
Since early 2021, DigitalOcean and SolarWinds® Papertrail™ have worked together to improve the ease and efficiency of log management for infrastructure running on the DigitalOcean platform. The most exciting new development of this partnership is the availability of the Papertrail software as a service (SaaS) Add On in the DigitalOcean Marketplace.
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How to: Comprehensive Monitoring for WordPress Sites

May 27, 2022 By Pingdom In SolarWinds
It’s funny how even today, in 2022, people still ask me if WordPress is a good choice for a high-traffic website. There are few website-building solutions on the internet as tested as WordPress. And brands like TechCrunch and The New Yorker wouldn’t be hosted on WordPress if traffic was an issue. But here’s the thing: WordPress is self-managed. As a result, you as an individual or organization using it for your business are responsible for monitoring your WordPress site.
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Winning Over the Skeptics: How SD-WAN Is Transforming Government Networks

May 23, 2022 By Brandon Shopp In SolarWinds
Are software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) worth the hype? Read below as our own Brandon Shopp details the value of this fast up-and-coming technology and how it can help. Public sector wide-area networks (WANs) are undergoing a transformation. The pressing need to support remote workers and a surge in demand for video conferencing, secure remote access, and cloud applications has seen public sector IT teams shift gears away from traditional, often multi-protocol label switching (MPLS)-based WANs.
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Let's Talk About the Orion Platform and Hybrid Cloud Observability

May 19, 2022 By Chrystal Taylor In SolarWinds
SolarWinds recently release Hybrid Cloud Observability, a solution we’ve been building towards for a long time, and something I see as the evolution of monitoring. If you missed Thomas LaRock’s recent article on observability and how we got here, then you missed a fun walk down memory lane. Importantly, it covers the history of our evolution from a simple toolset to the comprehensive set of monitoring known as the Orion® Platform and beyond.
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How Can a Transformational Leadership Style Benefit IT?

May 18, 2022 By Keith Townsend In SolarWinds
It’s been twenty years since the corporate scandals of Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco. The collapse of these giant corporations ruined the lives of the employees who tirelessly worked for leaders who let greed dictate their decision-making. Laws have been implemented since then to help reduce the risk of another Enron, but laws won’t stop all instances of poor leadership. Poor tone at the top increases vulnerabilities, employee non-compliance, and job dissatisfaction.
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When Legacy Systems Still Make Sense: The Role of Legacy Tech in Your Hybrid Digital Transformation

May 16, 2022 By Joey D'Antoni In SolarWinds
Despite all the attention cloud systems and enterprise cloud migrations receive, legacy software still plays an active role throughout enterprises. In many cases, critical business processes supported by legacy applications are just too crucial to core business functionality to risk migration.
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Three Ways COVID-19 Altered Federal, State IT Budget Allocations

May 9, 2022 By Brandon Shopp In SolarWinds
Wondering how the pandemic affected your agency’s budget? Brandon Shopp answers this question and discusses how the pandemic impacted security and service delivery through budget allocations. Amid a rising tide of ransomware attacks against governments and schools nationwide accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, tech pros are prioritizing investments in core technologies to manage risk, including security and compliance, network infrastructure, and cloud computing.
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