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Blind spots in hybrid IT: SolarWinds report finds 77% of IT teams lack full visibility across on-prem and cloud

Mar 11, 2026 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds

New data shows AI is accelerating incident response, reducing noise, and closing visibility gaps across increasingly complex IT environments.

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Why Your NOC Will Ignore AI

Mar 11, 2026 By Yann Guernion In Broadcom

Imagine you are driving to work and a yellow check engine light flickers on your dashboard. The car feels fine. It accelerates normally, there is no strange noise, and the temperature gauge is steady. What do you do? If you are like most people, you keep driving. You might make a mental note to look at it later, but you don't pull over on the highway and call a tow truck.

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Static and Dynamic Tagging in N-central and N-sight

Mar 11, 2026 By N-able In N-able

Static and Dynamic Tagging in N-central and N-sight In this demonstration, N-able Head Nerd Jason Murphy shows how tag management helps teams organize devices, prioritize support, and streamline day-to-day operations across customer environments. You will see how static and dynamic tags are used to identify VIP devices, track onboarding status, reflect SLA tiers, and create rule-based views that stay accurate as environments change.

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How One ISP Kept Transit Costs Flat While Traffic Grew 7x (MetroNet + Kentik)

Mar 10, 2026 By Kentik In Kentik

"We pay less in transit IP costs today than we did when we turned up Kentik. Our cost per Mbps is lowered over the years — and our traffic is seven times what it was when we started." — Michael Leclaire, MetroNet.

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Technology in the Workplace Statistics for 2026

Mar 10, 2026 By Dana Krook In Auvik

Workplace tech has officially entered high gear. AI is embedding itself into everyday operations, and the modern workplace is more distributed and demanding than ever. For network and IT teams, the upside is significant—but only with the visibility and control needed to keep everything running smoothly. Here are 20+ technology in the workplace statistics shaping 2026 that can give IT and network teams a glimpse into where we’re headed.

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Unlocking the Power of SolarWinds Through Training - SolarWinds TechPod 107

Mar 10, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds

In this SolarWinds TechPod episode, hosts Chrystal Taylor and Sean Sebring talk with Cheryl Nomanson, a SolarWinds Academy trainer with 14 years at the company. They discuss the importance of technical education for complex software and networks, exploring SolarWinds' comprehensive training offerings including the SolarWinds Academy with its on-demand courses, instructor-led virtual classes, and office hours format. Cheryl explains the SolarWinds Certified Professional (SCP) certification program and the newer SolarWinds Certified Instructor (SCI) program for training partners globally.

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Expanding Uptime Monitoring Down The Stack: ICMP Monitors Are Now Available In Checkly

Mar 10, 2026 By Susa Tünker In Checkly

When we started building Checkly's uptime monitoring suite, the goal was to give engineering teams complete visibility across every layer of their stack, from application down to network, in one place. URL, TCP, DNS, and Heartbeat monitors covered a lot of that ground. But one fundamental piece was missing: the ability to simply ping a host and know if it's reachable.

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ICMP Monitors Are Now Available in Checkly

Mar 10, 2026 By Checkly In Checkly

Checkly introduces ICMP monitoring to complement its existing uptime and synthetic monitoring (URL/HTTP, TCP, DNS, and heartbeat checks) for systems without HTTP endpoints, such as database hosts, VPN gateways, and load balancers.

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Why You Should Automate Network Troubleshooting

Mar 9, 2026 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio

It's 2 AM. The Network Is Down. Where Do You Start? You get the call. Users can't connect. VoIP is choppy. Something is broken somewhere between your office and the cloud. You open your monitoring dashboard and it says something is wrong, but not where. Not why. Not since when? So you do what IT teams have done for decades. You open a terminal, run a traceroute, SSH into the router, pull up SNMP, check the firewall logs.

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Migrate Your On-premises to the Cloud: A Step-by-Step Guide

Mar 9, 2026 By Dan Pfyl In Megaport

Is it time to migrate your data center applications to the cloud? Get key considerations and a step-by-step migration path. Migrating your on-premises data center to the cloud can seem like a daunting task, from deciding on the right cloud deployment model to ensuring that your network connectivity is secure and scalable. For many companies, the question isn’t whether to migrate, but how to do it efficiently and with minimal disruption.

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