It’s on the agenda of almost every CIO, COO and CFO, and sounds like a great idea in general: tool rationalization, often trying to standardize on top of a single vendor. It can reduce costs and provide a streamlined IT Ops process through data consistency, a single pane of glass and a single source of action.
2020 is (finally) over, and it’s safe to say that this very challenging year taught us once again that (as the old Danish proverb says) it’s difficult making predictions, especially about the future. Who would have imagined in January 2020 that we would find ourselves where we are today… And yet, as Tim Harford once wrote in the Financial Times, predictions are like Pringles: nobody thinks that there’s any great virtue in them but we find them hard to resist.
Solarwinds is a 21-year old publicly traded monitoring and network management vendor with 300,000+ customers across the world. It’s familiar to IT operations and monitoring teams across enterprises big and small. And this week, it found itself in the news for all the wrong reasons.
In 2020, enterprises have meaningfully accelerated their digital transformation. The global financial advisory firm KPMG, notes that “For a majority of U.S. CEOs, the pandemic has meant an acceleration in digital transformation by months or even years. The move to digitization has accelerated, and the benefits will be permanent. There is no going back.” Software vendors are seeing this very clearly too.
Most enterprises today are in the stages of a hybrid cloud migration, and no matter how they view this migration or implement it, the challenges they face are fairly common across the board. Does that mean there are common best practices for a hybrid cloud migration, and if so – what are they? Join us in a CTO Perspective discussion with Scott Stradley, Field CTO at BigPanda. Lean back and watch the interview, or if you prefer reading, take a few minutes to read the transcript.
Ease of use and outstanding user experience have always been a top priority for us, and we consider them to be a key factor in our success. Recent years have seen enterprise customers also looking for a self-service, low-friction user experience – and part of that includes access to extensive educational content, for all the stages of the product onboarding process and all levels of usage.
