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In this episode of SolarWinds World Tour Conversations, we sit down with Ramazan Karadavut, Founder & Senior Architect at Consolit, to discuss his 20-year journey with SolarWinds and the power of end-to-end IT management. We explore real-world enterprise use cases, including monitoring large-scale banking networks across 10,000+ branches, and thousands of ATMs. We will also explore why moving beyond basic alerting into inventory management, change management, and investment reporting is essential for complex environments.

Verascend Incident System Graylog's agentic layer that turns correlated, risk-scored alerts into verified incidents. Graylog’s Verascend Incident System turns risk-scored alerts into verified incidents before analysts open a case. Alert fatigue is a math problem. Tuning is a workaround. Verascend combines risk-scoring, event consolidation, and two AI agents to confirm which correlated events are real incidents, automatically, before an analyst ever opens a case. Analysts investigate. They don’t filter.

Analyze data and create reports across multiple database systems and cloud services with dbForge Edge. dbForge Edge brings SQL querying, data analysis, visualization, reporting, and automation into one multi-database solution. Use the built-in SQL development tools and AI Assistant to retrieve data, analyze large datasets with pivot tables, inspect related records with Master-Detail Browser, visualize findings in charts, and create clear and compelling data reports.

Not every AI tool has staying power, and the ones that last are the ones that fit your organization’s strategy. AI is following the same arc as the cloud push and the dot-com era: a massive boom, then a contraction. Before you invest, ask what will actually make a difference in your org, and build from there. Watch the full IT Leadership Lab session — linked above.

Your data sits in the UK. But who has the final say over it? As AI raises the stakes on where data lives and who controls it, digital sovereignty has moved from policy debate to boardroom priority. At Civo Navigate London, Lord Paul Drayson, Simon Hansford, Richard Woodfield of DataVita, Dan Chester of VAST Data and Ed Barker of Havishams explore what sovereignty really means for governments, businesses and the infrastructure behind them, and what it will take for the UK to adopt AI without giving up control.

Citrix was facing a major security crisis before its official warning even went out. Companies were already pulling critical network devices offline as attackers exploited serious vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway systems. In this ShipTalk clip, Adam, Martin, and Starr break down the Citrix zero-day vulnerabilities, the race to respond, and the impossible decision facing security teams: keep potentially compromised infrastructure running or rush to deploy a patch.

Use Sentry tracing to investigate three different problems in one shopping flow: an N+1 query, an expired promo-code warning, and a checkout exception. The entire shopping flow happens through the agent conversation on Empower Plant’s homepage: a search for plants under $200, adding one of each to the cart, starting checkout, applying SAVE20, then attempting to place the order. The trace connects that flow to repeated database queries and an N+1 issue, a warning that SAVE20 has expired, and a checkout exception with its inventory-validation stack trace.

The old model: build the product, then build the machine to sell it. Now? The tools might change in 48 hours. Time to learn them all over again.

Aiven Senior Solutions Architect Tony Piazza joined the company in March. Within months he had merged five PRs adding Google Cloud support and Terraform-based provisioning to the OpenSearch Migration Assistant, a tool that previously only worked on AWS. Tony talks with Jay Miller about: Why he went from consulting to open source contribution. How a consultant’s habit of finding project risks early shaped the work. His first conference keynote at OpenSearchCon. What contributing as a vendor-neutral company looks like. Where he’s contributing next, including ML Commons, Data Prepper and the docs.

In this episode of NinjaOne01, Jeff Hunter, Field CTO at NinjaOne, walks through NinjaOne’s new SIEM Exporter App. The app is a dedicated place to set up and monitor the webhooks that send NinjaOne activity data to your third-party SIEM (Security Information & Event Management) system. Note: this is an early access feature, so contact your account manager to have it enabled for your account. What this video covers.