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The Importance of Hardware Health Monitoring

Nov 23, 2020 By Brandon Shopp In SolarWinds
A networking problem can come from almost any fault within the infrastructure, whether it’s a bandwidth bottleneck, configuration issues, or a faulty networking component. But more than half of IT system outages are caused by hardware failure. The ability to quickly identify and resolve hardware issues goes a long way toward ensuring optimized performance. While this may seem like a simple solution, there are many, many potential hardware failure points, each of which can contribute to a slowdown.
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Postapocalyptic Networks

Nov 20, 2020 By Sascha Giese In SolarWinds
Just imagine the current situation continues well into the foreseeable future—let’s merge reality with a little fiction. The apocalypse is over, but life has changed permanently. This means we’re going to wear masks in public transport, shops, and restaurants and follow sports events on television instead of in the stadium. But hey, beer is much cheaper at home anyway. Office jobs are outsourced, but not into countries with cheap labor—they’re outsourced to our own homes.
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Web Performance: Two Truths and a Lie

Nov 20, 2020 By Pingdom In SolarWinds
While marketing has done its job of getting prospects and customers to your site, the last thing you need is a performance issue to turn them away. If your site is unavailable or there’s an issue with critical transactions, you’re preventing customers from purchasing, using, or logging in to your product. Especially during the holidays and peak shopping season, when the expectations are high, you cannot afford downtime.
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How ITIL 4 Guiding Principles Can Boost Communication in Our WFH Reality

Nov 19, 2020 By Chris Greer In SolarWinds
ITIL has established itself as the gold standard of guidelines for service management over the years. And with so many employees working remotely this year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the best practices and guiding principles of ITIL 4 are arguably more applicable than ever. The sudden shift to remote work for many organizations has forced teams to increasingly rely on technology and find new ways to convey important messages.
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SolarWinds Launches New Automation Cookbook to Help MSP Partners Advance Services Control, Simplicity, and Cost Effectiveness

Nov 18, 2020 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Collection of Hundreds of Fully Vetted Scripts Help Eliminate Repetitiveness and Speed Up Technician Tasks-So MSPs Can Focus More "on" the Business Instead of "in" It.
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Finding Zen - How IT Ops and IT Security Can Work Together

Nov 17, 2020 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
It's no secret IT Ops and Security teams don't have the most glowing relationship. The simplistic reason is while Ops is responsible for making work and communication as seamless and accessible as possible (and therefore wants everything open), Security is focused on making it as difficult as possible for the wrong people to get inside (and therefore wants everything closed). But beyond the trite hot takes, fundamentally, both teams want to keep the bad guys out without stifling productivity. And when these two groups work together—Well, it’s magic. Timothy Brown, SolarWinds VP of Security, is here to tell you how to reduce friction with some advice and real-world examples.
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The Technology Companies Think They Can Live Without (and Why They're Wrong)

Nov 17, 2020 By Leon Adato In SolarWinds
When the value is obvious, most companies are willing to invest in tools to help employees get their job done better. But over the course of my career, I’ve noticed a few blind spots companies can’t seem to remember when writing out their tech team grocery list. These include things obvious to many, like training, antivirus for all devices, and comprehensive content management; or the more subtle ones like password managers or (yes) monitoring.
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Winning On Tomorrow's Interconnected Battlefields

Nov 16, 2020 By Brandon Shopp In SolarWinds
With the U.S. national security plan highlighting the need for both information dominance and protection, the Department of Defense is considering plans like modernizing military networks to ensure more effective communications between warfighters and allies in the harshest of environments and recruiting the specialized talent required for battlefield domination. To begin, the DoD must bridge the gap between its ambitious vision and the capabilities of current military networks.
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