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The Human Side of Innovation: Sheetal Kalra on Trust, Simplicity, and SolarWinds in Africa

Sep 24, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
"Channel is the heartbeat of any vendor conversation...if your product is not good, the channel is not going to be doing the miracle." In this episode of SolarWinds World Tour Conversations, we sit down with Sheetal Kalra, Regional Channel Manager for META, to discuss why a strong channel ecosystem is essential for bringing in strong customers. We explore the technology-driven nature of channel sales, the 2026 modifications to simplify the Partner Program, and how partners are successfully navigating network and observability challenges for their clients.
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ITSM to Deep Observability with ServiceOps & ObserveOps | Motadata Webinar

Sep 24, 2026 By Motadata In Motadata
In this webinar recording, discover how ServiceOps and ObserveOps connect IT service management with deep observability. Learn how IT teams can identify root causes faster with unified visibility across incidents, metrics, logs, traces, applications, and infrastructure. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe for more insights on ITSM, observability, AIOps, and IT operations.
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Best Practices for Effective Healthcare Networks

Sep 24, 2026 By Greg Collins In WhatsUp Gold
An effective healthcare network is the IT infrastructure that keeps clinical and operational services reachable, responsive and diagnosable across hospitals, clinics, imaging centers, laboratories, remote sites, cloud services and vendor connections. A device can be up while Electronic Health Record (EHR) access, Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) retrieval, telehealth or a wireless clinical workflow is still slow or unavailable.
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What Is a Network Topology Diagram? Types, Examples and How to Build One That Stays Current

Sep 22, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Most network diagrams are accurate exactly once: the day they are finished. The network keeps changing, the drawing does not, and the gap shows up during the next outage. According to the Uptime Institute Annual Outage Analysis 2026, failure to follow established procedures remains the leading driver of human-error outages. A wrong diagram is how a right procedure hits the wrong port. The fix is a network topology diagram that matches the live network topology.
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What Is a Network Interface (and Why Your Monitoring Tool Should Care)

Sep 22, 2026 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
A user opens a ticket: "The Internet is slow." IT checks the network. Bandwidth looks fine, no outages, no alerts firing. They check with the ISP, but nothing on their end either. Everything upstream checks out, and yet the user is still stuck watching a spinning wheel. What rarely gets checked is the one component sitting closest to the problem: the machine's own network interface.
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Upgrading the Operations Tech Stack at the Edge of Supply Chains

Upgrading the Operations Tech Stack at the Edge of Supply Chains

Sep 22, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Warehouse management systems (WMS) and resource planning (ERP) platforms have undergone massive architectural shifts over the last decade. Microservices, event-driven cloud architectures, and real-time database synchronization have transformed how logistics organizations manage inventory levels, calculate safety stock, and track order fulfillment. Yet, despite millions invested in core IT infrastructure, operations architects frequently encounter a persistent data blind spot at the physical perimeter of the supply chain network: the loading dock.
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What Is Network Design? Steps and Best Practices for Growing Networks

Sep 21, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Most networks were never designed. They were extended, one switch and one VLAN at a time, until a single core failure took the site down and nobody could find the diagram. According to the Uptime Institute Annual Outage Analysis 2026, 57 percent of organizations said their most recent major outage cost more than $100,000. Network design is how you stop paying that bill. You decide the network topology, the addressing and the hardware on purpose, before the cabling goes in.
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How to Find and Fix Packet Loss Before It Reaches Your Users

Sep 21, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
Why do the same complaints about call quality and slow file transfers keep coming back after the network has been checked and declared healthy? Packet loss is usually the answer, and it survives investigation because it degrades the services people use without taking anything offline. That combination makes it expensive. Equipment gets rebooted, cables get replaced, and tickets go to the internet service provider, often with nobody knowing which segment of the path is discarding traffic.
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How to prove your HAProxy build is legitimate

Sep 21, 2026 By Ron Northcutt In HAProxy
On September 4, Rapid7 Labs published research on a Linux espionage toolkit found at two organizations in South Korea. The centerpiece is a backdoor the researchers call "Ted," which was hidden inside a modified HAProxy build running on the victims' load balancers. Rapid7 attributes the campaign to North Korean state-sponsored actors with medium confidence. The same toolkit tampered with multiple tools across the victims' systems, including an SSH keylogger.
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