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Daily Ignite Briefing: Highlights from day #3

Our third day was a bit of a different one. We started off the morning with a SCOM roundtable session that featured presentations from Microsoft, NiCE, Cookdown and SquaredUp. Later in the afternoon, our CEO and Founder Richard delivered a talk on “Mastering Azure Monitor”, and then as usual we did a couple customer briefings, a few customer case studies, and loads and loads of demos – also gave out loads of LEGO!

Interacting With Log Data in Security Event Manager

SolarWinds Security Event Manager is designed to give users a centralized view of logs and events occurring across their network, and quickly and easily recall specific logs and identify suspicious patterns and behaviors in that data. This video gives a quick overview of the features in SEM, making it easy for users to view and interact with their log data.

DevOps Patterns and Antipatterns for Continuous Software Updates at Velocity Berlin 2019

So, you want to update the software for your user, be it the nodes in your K8s cluster, a browser on user’s desktop, an app in user’s smartphone or even a user’s car. What can possibly go wrong? In this talk, we’ll analyze real-world software update fails and how multiple DevOps patterns, that fit a variety of scenarios, could have saved the developers. Manually making sure that everything works before sending an update and expecting the user to do acceptance tests before they update is most definitely not on the list of such patterns.

Effective messaging is the key to successful remote productivity

“I love daily stand-ups almost as much as I love Agile” is something usually said sarcastically, with an eye roll. But for all the resistance that standups receive (at least among engineers), they do their job surprisingly well. In terms of allowing everyone to share their current progress, roadblocks, and questions, it’s hard to beat a daily meeting where no one is at their computer.

Shift Left - Context Menu Now Easier to Find

The feedback on the new SolarWinds® Papertrail™ event viewer has been overwhelmingly positive. We’ve heard that the new event viewer is “awesome,” “sleek” and “easy to use.” We also heard, from some long-time Papertrail fans, that moving the context menu to the right side of the log lines might not have been the best choice.

Top 10 I&O Technologies for a successful 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024

Each year there comes a time to look forward and think about next year and maybe even further. This can be a daunting task, especially in the fast-changing IT industry. Luckily, Gartner prepared a list of the top 10 technologies that will drive the future of Infrastructure and Operations up through 2024. This list might come in handy when you’re preparing your 2020 roadmap and beyond.