Learn about all the great new features added to the 2020.2 release including updates to SolarWinds Orion® Platform maps, network monitoring, new implementation options, virtualization chargeback, and much more.

SolarWinds product experts present a visual overview of cloud and on-premises database monitoring best practices using SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) and Database Performance Monitor (DPM). They will cover high-level monitoring in DPA by looking at correlation tabs, such as resources, virtualization, and blocking, and will demonstrate how to create example alerts that can look at this data.

The Orion Platform has a new modern dashboarding framework. This data-driven dashboard framework provides greater level of flexibility over how data is displayed. It includes a grid-based layout, new widgets types, and drag-and-drop placement with full vertical and horizontal widget scaling. SolarWinds Senior Technical Trainer Cheryl Nomanson takes you through a detailed setup and configuration including how to add multiple Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Companies must change the way they operate to combat increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks across ever-expanding attack surfaces. What we learn from one attack can help us protect against the next. Because the next attack is always on the horizon. What should you do to raise your defenses? SolarWinds President and CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna and cybersecurity expert and Krebs Stamos Group Founding Partner Alex Stamos discuss our plan for a safer SolarWinds and customer community – grounded in principles you can follow to secure your enterprise.

Turning data into information and information into decisions are some of the most common challenges facing any monitoring professional. A clean, easy-to-interpret dashboard can go a long way in turning those raw numbers into actionable decisions. In this heavily requested follow-up episode, Kevin M. Sparenberg, technical content manager for THWACK®, presents a step-by-step build for modern dashboards.

We all wish we could be a little bit more efficient or get our work done just a little bit faster. In a perfect world, being a Network Admin would be a breeze. We can’t promise to get you out of the office by 5, but here are some network IT tips to (hopefully) make your day easier.

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.