Today we welcome David Morris, a System Centre Engineer for one of the world's largest law firms, who has written a special guest blog about the Solarwinds community MP. A must read for anyone who has Solarwinds and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). We'd like to thank David for taking the time to write up this fantastic piece of content - it's another great example of the SCOM community hard at work.

“What kind of integrations do you have with PRTG?” Yesterday, one of our favourite German customers asked us that question. And today we post our answer in a blog post! And without further ado, we’ll let our technical colleague Tom Morriss take centre stage.

If you’ve ever been on call, you know that the incidents don’t stop because you have the flu. Or when you’re attending your child’s high school graduation. Or, as I found out firsthand, even when you’re at your own wedding. Confucius once said, “If you have never had a major occasion happen while you are on call, then you may not have ever lived.” (Okay, I totally made that one up.)

If it hasn’t happened already, someone in your organization will soon ask you to explain your AWS bill. Depending on the complexity of your cloud environment, you will consider the bill to be something between a riddle and an incomprehensible and unbreakable code. We know, we’ve been there.

IT operations teams have some of the most stressful jobs in IT. Keeping data centers online, servers running, enterprise systems functioning, and applications performing — all while responding to incidents and requests is hard work. While there are monitoring systems in place to provide visibility and change management practices give IT some control over the network and environment, IT operations teams constantly feel like they are fighting a losing battle.

CHICAGO, Oct. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Illinois-based digital operations management and real-time collaboration platform AlertOps, announces a renewed focus on Enterprises in the IT Operations Management, DevOps, and SecOps spaces. CIOs and IT leaders need vendors that can merge technology and business scenarios to solve complex collaboration and communication problems.

OnPage the global leader in Incident Alert Management and mass notification aims to help people connect with each other and provide their communities and businesses with critical communication tools free-of-charge for one month during Hurricane Michael. Tropical storm Michael has become a hurricane and is moving towards the Gulf of Mexico and is still likely to hit Florida’s northern Gulf coast on Wednesday.

Winning new clients is one of the most satisfying feelings for any business owner. But scaling can present some operational challenges. For example, one King Kong-sized hurdle many MSP businesses face is how to increase—or even maintain—margins during growth. It’s hard to provide the same standard of customer service to a larger client base without adding more (expensive) technicians to your payroll. … if you’re not using automation to create efficiencies.

When developing a web application based on PHP, it’s not enough to just solve the problem and project requirements. Server resources like storage, memory, and number of CPUs contribute to the price of the hosting; that’s why developers should take into consideration these resources when developing web applications. On top of all of these, the application must run smoothly.

There’s a job description you don’t see often, but unfortunately, it’s much closer to the truth about what companies are truly looking for these days in an IT manager. Technology has taken over the workplace.