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Bring IT On in the Year of the Ox

Sep 21, 2021 By Liz Beavers In SolarWinds
IT Pro Day is here, and it feels like the new year in IT! It’s a time to reflect on lessons from the past year and celebrate your achievements while setting goals for the season ahead. The theme for this year, Bring IT On, feels especially appropriate as we’ve been in the Year of the Ox. According to the Chinese zodiac, the ox is known as the “good helper” symbolizing strength, diligence, and persistence. I can’t think of a better sign that embodies IT pros.
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IT Service Management: Streamline Your Workflows to Make Everyone Happier

Sep 16, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Shadow IT is, at best, an organizational distraction; and at worst, a team of people working at cross-purposes to the business and causing harm. But if shadow IT is such a bad thing, why does it still happen in so many organizations? In under 10 minutes, SolarWinds Head Geek Leon Adato and Technical Content Manager for Community Kevin M. Sparenberg break down what shadow IT is, why it’s bad for the organization even if it seems to be “getting things done,” and how the cycle can be broken with a robust, mature, responsive service management solution and process.
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Overprovisioned and Overspent: Optimize Before You Lift and Shift

Sep 14, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Do you know what’s wrong with “lift and shift?” Everything. But why? In this video, SolarWinds Head Geek Leon Adato and Technical Content Manager for Community Kevin M. Sparenberg dig into what goes wrong during on-prem to cloud migration of applications and systems in many organizations and how monitoring can help not only avoid those problems but improve the overall outcome as well.
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Open-Source Monitoring With SolarWinds AppOptics

Sep 14, 2021 By AppOptics In SolarWinds
In software terms, “open source” means applications and their source code are available for the public to download and modify free of cost. Anyone can access, edit, and supplement the code to create an enhanced version of the application. Vendors often do this by forking the source code to create their own version of the application, marketing their version commercially.
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Why SQL Server Monitoring Is the First Step in Improving Performance

Sep 9, 2021 By Jason Hall In SolarWinds
SQL Server monitoring is continuous collection and analysis of usage, performance, and event metrics for Microsoft SQL Server. It’s the first step in optimizing performance for applications that depend on your data platform. Highly effective monitoring gives a bird’s-eye view of your entire data estate. It also provides the deep analytics necessary to perform root cause analysis on the most challenging performance problems.
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Spotting and Avoiding Database Drift

Sep 8, 2021 By John Morehouse In SolarWinds
Managing any database ecosystem is difficult enough: taking backups, maintaining statistics, and doing performance tuning all tax the time of the DBA or database developer. The job is complex even without considering the work you do to manage the various schema and data drifts that can occur. Unless you operate in a vacuum or within a single person organization (and even then, schema drift can occur), drift is going to manifest naturally and as the size of the environment expands.
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Cloud or On-Prem? With Monitoring, It's Both-And, Not Either-Or

Sep 7, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Despite the migration of services and systems to cloud (either all or in part), many of the fundamental aspects of the day-to-day work IT practitioners do hasn’t changed. It’s just moved. In this session, SolarWinds Head Geek Leon Adato and Technical Content Manager for Community Kevin M. Sparenberg discuss that state of affairs, as well as what monitoring can do to help view those resources as a contiguous whole, despite possibly being split across the on-prem/cloud divide.
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Finding the Gaps in Your Data Causing Data Drift

Sep 7, 2021 By John Morehouse In SolarWinds
When drift happens within a database, it can occur at a couple of different levels. Drift refers to entities—tables, views, or even data—out of synchronization with each other. This could be a difference in schema structure, data, or even operational metadata like permissions. Often, drifts happen between two different environments like development and staging databases.
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