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November 2024

Navigating the NIS2 Directive and How SolarWinds Can Help

In 2016, the European Union (EU) established the Network and Information Security (NIS) directive as its first comprehensive cybersecurity directive. Now, the EU is updating the directive in response to evolving cybersecurity challenges. Let’s break down NIS2 and discuss how SolarWinds solutions can help your organization improve its security incident-handling capabilities.

The Key to Visibility for ITOps and CloudOps Teams

While ITOps and CloudOps teams manage distinct environments, they can both struggle to achieve the deep visibility required to maintain system performance. Let’s examine the barriers to visibility and how a unified observability solution can provide the insight teams need to keep operations running smoothly.

Climb Channel Solutions Ireland seeks to accelerate new business with SolarWinds partnership

SolarWinds delivers technologies spanning observability, database, and IT service management. Climb Channel Solutions Ireland is hoping to grow revenues across net new and existing business through new partnership with SolarWinds. It anticipates increased demand for the cloud-hosted, AI-powered SolarWinds observability solution.

How to Attain Deep Network Device Coverage with SolarWinds Observability SaaS

Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts that will walk you through the key network monitoring and observability capabilities of the SolarWinds Observability SaaS option. Simplicity has always been at the heart of our product ethos, and our recent decision to bring our self-hosted and SaaS observability options under the single umbrella of SolarWinds Observability embodies this ethos.

Close Your Hybrid IT Observability Gap SolarWinds Observability SaaS or Self Hosted Solutions

As technology evolves, organizations face the challenge of modernizing their infrastructure to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and meet customer demands. But with hybrid IT setups—combining on-premises data centers, multiple cloud instances, and SaaS applications—most observability tools force compromises. The result? Gaps that impact performance, slow down issue resolution, hurt customer satisfaction, and reduce ROI.

4 Takeaways from the SolarWinds State of ITSM Report

The SolarWinds State of ITSM Report has arrived. To uncover key trends, challenges, and practices in today's IT Service Management (ITSM) landscape, we’ve analyzed over 2,000 ITSM systems and more than 60,000 aggregated, anonymized data points spanning 13 months from July 1, 2023, to July 31, 2024. Here are a few things we found interesting.

How to Prepare Your Data Estate for AI Success

It’s hard not to speak in cliches when we talk about artificial intelligence (AI). Today, AI seems to be all around us. And whatever its cultural impact, its rapid evolution is leading to widespread adoption across industries. Much of the discourse focuses on what machine intelligence can do to enrich our lives and businesses. But less has been said about data, and how every AI system relies on it to operate.

SolarWinds Observability Self Hosted 2024.4 Expanded Device Support and Enhanced Wireless Monitoring

Discover the latest features in SolarWinds version 2024.4! This update brings support for a variety of new network devices, including Fortinet SD WAN, Ruckus, Juniper, Arista, and Extreme Networks wireless access points, plus Meraki switch support via API integration. Join Crystal Taylor, SolarWinds Evangelist, as she takes you through the new wireless monitoring capabilities and shows how your network management just got easier. Watch now to optimize your network oversight and stay ahead with these powerful enhancements!

SolarWinds Observability Self Hosted 2024.4: New Cloud Monitoring for Azure and AWS Databases!

Explore the powerful new features in SolarWinds version 2024.4, now supporting expanded cloud monitoring capabilities! Crystal Taylor, SolarWinds Evangelist, walks you through the latest updates, including Azure Managed Instance, Azure MySQL, Azure PostgreSQL, and Amazon RDS for SQL Server. See firsthand how PostgreSQL and RDS instances are monitored, showcasing detailed charts and metrics like Log IOs, physical data reads, and memory usage. Upgrade now to take full advantage of these new insights and optimize your cloud database performance.