Five Steps to Developing an Application Modernization Strategy
Supporting legacy applications is problematic for several reasons. These aging systems are becoming increasingly obsolete and difficult to maintain. They use outdated software languages and unsupported...
View ArticleDetermining the Most Important Application Availability and Performance Signals
There’s a time-tested saying in IT: zero sensors, zero incidents. What goes unmeasured goes unmaintained, unmanaged, and ultimately unprotected. But measurement is no simple thing. What IT teams...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Pushes Schools to Their Limit, and the Cloud Shows Its Worth
For educators, students, and parents, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on learning has been profound. Thousands of schools across the U.S. closed their doors this spring and made the shift to...
View Article2021: The Year We May Be Able to Predict
Although our Head Geek Leon Adato may have attempted to predict 2020 last year, no one could’ve prepared us for what was to come. Today as we work from various remote spaces including our living rooms,...
View ArticleWhy Database Performance Is Key to Understanding Application Health
Traditional database and application monitoring used to mean talking about a single server, in a single data center, in a single location. Many monitoring tools were—and still are—built around this...
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Handle With Care: The Many Ways Modern Web Applications Can Break
Legacy applications used to be monolithic, often with the database, code, and web server on a single host. But modern apps are different—they use more microservices, containers, and serverless...
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Infrastructure Monitoring Status? It’s Complicated.
Moving to the cloud and into hybrid environments—even in the past year—has created several changes, but what does this mean for IT pros? The evolution to modern applications has created new...
View ArticleTaking an API-First Approach to Network Management
Application programming interfaces (APIs) allow applications to communicate, interoperate, and share information with one another. APIs have been mainstays at companies like Google, Salesforce, and...
View ArticleMonitoring Challenges Emerge as Agencies Embrace Container Technology
Container technology is catching on big-time in the federal government as agencies such as the USDA and the National Institutes of Health look to containers to simplify software development and reduce...
View ArticleLeveraging APM to Conquer Custom App Management Troubles
Though you might use custom-made apps for many reasons, there’s only one reason you deploy them: off-the-shelf solutions just can’t get the job done. Whenever operations are too complex for a...
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Best Practices for Monitoring Your End-User Experience – SolarWinds Lab...
Knowing if a server has high CPU is helpful, but does it really matter if your end users can still access their apps without performance issues? If you’re only monitoring the server side, then you...
View ArticleHow Important Are Application Performance Metrics to Mission Success?
Federal IT pros have tracked application performance for decades. Today’s environments are far more complex than they’ve ever been, particularly with the quick and steady rise of cloud computing,...
View ArticleCloud Migration: A Race You Shouldn’t Try to Win
The race to cloud migration can seem like a good idea for most businesses, but a common trend has been to get there as soon as possible. Much like with the story of the tortoise and the hare, there are...
View ArticleOutdated Calculus of Cloud Cost Containment
“Cost” would seem to underpin almost every decision IT teams make. Sure, business requirements drive overall operations budgets, but it’s always in tension with decades-old certainties about cost. It’s...
View ArticleHybrid IT and Virtualized Workloads Preparing for a Shift to Microsoft Azure
Though government agencies continue to move to the cloud to accelerate their digital transformation plans, the majority have embraced a hybrid IT environment. This mix of on-premises and cloud...
View ArticleCostOps: The Overlooked Developer Responsibility
Developers are the kingmakers. Millions of decisions made by tens of thousands of developers are ultimately responsible for the triumph or tragedy of IT. Developers for commercial vendors, open-source...
View ArticleWhat Agencies Should Consider Regarding Multi-Cloud Implementations
Multi-cloud architectures have long been hyped for their performance, reliability, and cost savings—and adoption is soaring. According to a 2020 survey from IDG, 55% of organizations use two or more...
View ArticleIT Monitoring: Managing Up — SolarWinds TechPod 042
Hang around with IT folks for anything longer than your typical stand-up meeting and you’re likely to hear some variation of “Managers! Am I right?” Snark aside, as folks who design, deploy, and...
View ArticleHow is Cloud Adoption Changing Public School Education?
As the past year has shown, cloud computing has proved a vital service for K–12 public schools. It’s enabled online learning during a time of critical need, and the schools who have embraced cloud...
View ArticleMonitoring Could Prove to Be a Lifesaver for the Public Sector
One of the business consequences from the pandemic—increased remote working—is causing technology challenges across most industries, including the public sector. The pandemic interrupted “business as...
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