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From Monitoring to Observability - Any Size, Anywhere

As you respond to a changing IT landscape, you must update your approach to supporting your organization’s services. We believe 2022 will be the year of Observability. While Observability means many things, SolarWinds can help you understand how it can transform your team and organization. Please join Rohini Kasturi, EVP and Chief Product Officer, and Richa Dhanda, VP of Product Marketing, as they share how SolarWinds is evolving our product portfolio to deliver comprehensive visualization into full-stack solutions for hybrid IT and cloud environments. Rohini will also preview some exciting developments coming in 2022.

APM's Evolution to Observability

The evolution of IT, the changing requirements for ensuring availability, the performance of critical applications, and the performance of the underlying infrastructure—no matter where it’s running—are all part of the story of the application performance management (APM) story. Still, the transition and need for observability are much more than this.

Communication Breakdown: Deploying Datadog and New Relic Across Teams is Unwieldy

As an industry analyst at Gartner, we would often discuss whether people were in a centralized or decentralized cycle. In business, it’s normal to investigate options for creating innovation and moving quickly, or focus on reducing cost and optimizing teams and technologies.

The Who, What and Where of Delivering Microsoft Teams Mobile Calling Service Quality

Microsoft Teams users, whether they use peer-to-peer calls, meetings, or PSTN Telephony very often switch from their laptop to their mobile and expect reliable call quality on all devices. Monitoring and ensuring call quality for Microsoft Teams users, in general, is already challenging at times. But when it comes to Microsoft Teams mobile calling, there is added complexity for IT teams.

Getting Started with Splunk on Google Cloud

In April 2021, Splunk launched Splunk Cloud on Google Cloud. Since then, a large and growing number of integrations, applications, tools, and solutions have been created to enable or enhance use cases across data protection, productivity, safer remote working and other security visibility needs. We’ve highlighted a few of the more noteworthy additions below for any current or prospective users of Splunk Cloud on Google Cloud.

Data Center Capacity: How to Measure, How to Plan, and How Much is Left?

Data center capacity refers to key data center resources (i.e., power, space, cooling, and power/network port connections) that are available to meet the requirements of current and future IT demand. Accurately planning and managing data center capacity is essential for maintaining uptime and increasing efficiency. Failure to do so can be very expensive and detrimental to the business.

On the Brittleness of Dashboards

Dashboards are one of the most basic and popular tools software engineers use to operate their systems. In this post, I'll make the argument that their use is unfortunately too widespread, and that the reflex we have to use and rely on them tends to drown out better, more adapted approaches, particularly in the context of incidents.