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How DBAs are Using SolarWinds DPM and Marginalia to reduce MTTR

Database performance is critical to business revenue. Slow and non-responsive databases can result in hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in lost revenue from poor customer experience and downtime. High expectations in performance require IT infrastructure to function at full speed. In 2006, an Amazon study found that every 100ms in added page load time cost them 1% in sales.

What is a Data Warehouse? Benefits and Tips

A data warehouse (DW) is a centralized repository of data integrated from multiple systems.. This data is often cleansed and standardized before being loaded. Designed to support analytical workloads, a data warehouse can help organizations better leverage both current data and historical data to improve decision-making through the analysis of business processes and outcomes.

THWACK Livecast: Automating Your Way Beyond Simple Incident Management

Presented by: Kevin M. Sparenberg (KMSigma) and David Russell (david.russell.CSM) It’s time to take your service desk solution to the next level with automation rules. Built on the framework of simple rules, you can improve efficiency, refine standardized processes, and transform the way your organization runs. This THWACK© Livecast is all about how automation rules in SolarWinds© Service Desk can help lighten the load and allow your teams to focus on those big picture projects which actually improve the business. Let's stop getting bogged down in the minutia and manual interaction of incident management and instead look at ways to lighten your load.

How Observability and AIOps Are Transforming the World

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and associated technologies—like machine learning (ML) and natural language processing—for normal IT operations activities and endeavors. AIOps helps ITOps, DevOps, and site reliability engineer (SRE) teams work better by examining IT information and observability telemetry.

Three Ways to Prepare Your Agency for a Modernized Digital Verification System

Last year, the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation for states to develop highly secure, interoperable systems enabling digital identity verification. According to the Better Identity Coalition, the Improving Digital Identity Act is the first step to ensuring the U.S. is up to speed with the developed world on digital identity. Without secure, accessible, interoperable digital credentials, agencies are put at risk for security vulnerabilities, online fraud, and more.

A Comprehensive Guide to Workflow Integration

Each step in a given workflow triggers another task in the process until you get to the desired result. When it comes to workplace processes such as a trouble ticket, these usually incorporate many steps, multiple applications, and routing to multiple engineers. These multifaceted and time-consuming steps are complex and rely on individuals, and they can be gated by the only people who have the “how to" knowledge.

A Quick Guide to Observability vs APM vs Monitoring

The terms observability, APM, and monitoring are often used interchangeably. However, these solutions can actually be quite different depending on the overall needs of the business. In this video, SolarWinds Principal Product Marketing Manager Pete Di Stefano explains the differences between each of these terms and how using intelligence to integrate insights from APM and monitoring into a centralized observability solution is key to gaining a more comprehensive understanding of your entire IT ecosystem.