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Recapping Our Inaugural SolarWinds Day Event

Our inaugural SolarWinds Day event was a smashing success! From the announcement of our SolarWinds® Observability solution—which was built fully in the cloud—to important updates to our on-premises SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability solution, this was our biggest day of product launches since the founding of SolarWinds. It was exciting to be a part of the event and to see so many people participate and engage in the discussion.

User Experience for Observability

Modern software applications involve multiple layers of code and services, working together to meet increasingly demanding user requirements. To achieve this, systems became distributed, providing improved scalability, fault tolerance, and complexity. However, this innovation brought new challenges to basic troubleshooting and performance monitoring to maintain the health of systems. It’s for these reasons that observability is trending.

Containers vs. Virtual Machines: Rivals or Friends?

Containers have been the buzz among developers in recent years with the adoption of cloud-native orchestration tools like Kubernetes and DevOps workflows centered around containers. At the same time, virtual machines (VMs) still power many enterprise workloads, whether they’re running in a public cloud provider like Azure or an on-premises data center running VMware. In one of my early jobs, we built a private cloud—in 2012. This was a ground-breaking project at the time.

SolarWinds Day October 2022 - Observability for All

To kick off our first SolarWinds Day, we are pleased to announce the launch of SolarWinds Observability, our new cloud-native SaaS offering. It combines application, infrastructure, database, network, digital experience, and log analysis into a single, integrated platform. This full-stack approach provides a centralized view of your IT infrastructure and services and delivers powerful functionality to help businesses and organizations of any size maximize their time and resources.

The SolarWinds Platform

The SolarWinds Platform is designed to connect with your critical business services, to provide flexibility, visibility, and control—wherever your environment lives and wherever you’re going next. It’s the simplicity you expect from SolarWinds, with deployment models to support you today and tomorrow, from on-premises to cloud-native SaaS solutions.

The Orion Platform and the SolarWinds Platform - What's the Difference?

For the better part of twenty years, the SolarWinds Orion Platform has provided the consolidated web console, alerting engine, reporting engine, and the API upon which our Network, Systems, Virtualization, Storage, and other management solutions rely. That technology was always evolving release-to-release, and the next stage in that evolution is a new name. Now called the SolarWinds Platform, it's built on the same technology that's been part of our customers' experiences for years.

Is Kubernetes Still the Best Container Orchestration Tool?

Over the last few years, containers have been one of the hottest topics when it comes to radically changing the way we develop, operate, and maintain our applications. And it’s no coincidence the rise of containers has occurred right alongside the rise of the cloud and the DevOps movement. This shift in development and operations has brought new challenges as container technologies have evolved.

Comparing Cybersecurity Trends Since the Pandemic

The pandemic has brought a great number of changes with it for businesses, from remote work to increased cyber threats. The IT concerns we had pre-pandemic are simply not the same now, especially when it comes to cybersecurity. With October being Cybersecurity Awareness month, I wanted to reflect on these changes and what we as a community have learned over the past couple of years.

A Demonstration of SolarWinds Observability | SolarWinds Day Virtual Showcase (Oct 22)

Join Head Geek Chrystal Taylor and VP of Product Josh Stageberg as they show off SolarWinds Observability— our new SaaS offering that unifies application, infrastructure, database, network, digital experience, and log analysis into a single, integrated platform. It lets you group together elements like microservices, hosts, databases, and websites and quickly determine the holistic health of your online application and how it impacts your business performance. Reduce cost, optimize performance, and ensure reliability for all your business-critical systems with SolarWinds Observability.

A Demonstration of Hybrid Cloud Observability | SolarWinds Day Virtual Showcase (Oct 22)

Head Geek Chrystal Taylor and GVP of Product Brandon Shopp walk you through the latest updates to SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability. HCO gives teams a more proactive solution, making them better informed and enabling them to focus on the most business-critical issues. This full-stack approach provides a centralized view of your IT infrastructure and services, and delivers powerful functionality to help businesses and organizations of any size maximize their time and resources.