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IT Spring Cleaning: Making the best of the current situation

Mar 26, 2021 By Sascha Giese, Head Geek In SolarWinds
Spring is just around the corner. And since we're at home a lot right now due to the coronavirus pandemic, it's all the more worthwhile to take some time for spring cleaning. But it's not just in our own four walls that the winter grumpiness should disappear; the IT landscape is also in need of a digital spring cleaning.
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Best 7 Automated Network Diagram Software + Guide

Mar 26, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
For your business’s network to thrive, you have to really know its details and intricacies. One of the best ways to understand your network is to make a network diagram, which is a visual representation of your network’s devices and how they connect to one another. You can manually create your own network diagram, which can help visualize complex networks. However, it can be difficult and time-consuming to build a coherent, accurate network diagram on your own.
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The End of Automation Anxiety

Mar 25, 2021 By Chrystal Taylor, Head Geek In SolarWinds
If there's one thing 2020 has highlighted, it's that the world is constantly changing. For most industries-IT included-one constant spans the ages: a lingering concern about automation. The very thing that helped pave the foundations for the industrial revolution and the world we know today has been a concern ever since, with the worry machines will take our jobs in one way or another. In 2021, we're likely to see the IT industry address this anxiety, embracing automation software solutions in a smarter way and freeing up tech professionals to prioritize the most important jobs.
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Key Challenges of Database Cloud Migration

Mar 25, 2021 By Kevin Kline In SolarWinds
As we shift enterprise computing to the cloud, the need for database migration increases—but with this comes the inherent challenges of migration and the need to plan. Moving to the cloud can come with more risks and obstacles than migrating a database within a data center or from one on-premises data center to another. If a business isn’t fully prepared to migrate, they’re almost certain to run into issues.
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Creating Custom Event Views in SQL Sentry

Mar 24, 2021 By Dexter Cox In SolarWinds
If you’re using SQL Sentry regularly, there’s a great event management feature that provides a lot of value for our advanced users. I often find the SQL Sentry Event Calendar isn’t being used as often as it once was. The Event Calendar lets you view historical and future events, drill down into event failures, and reschedule jobs using drag and drop all from within the SQL Sentry desktop client. In addition, you can create custom views of events you need to reference frequently.
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It's Never Too Late to Improve Your Personal Security Posture

Mar 24, 2021 By Chrystal Taylor In SolarWinds
Security is everyone’s responsibility. That’s it. That’s the whole point. (I may be spending too much time with Leon, but it had to be said.) If you have a security team, or even just one person who is tasked with security, it’s easy for the rest of the team or department to fall into a trap, thinking there’s nothing more you need to do. You’re wrong.
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Enterprise IT Cost Containment-A Series

Mar 23, 2021 By Leon Adato In SolarWinds
H.L. Mencken once famously wrote, “…there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” More than just a pithy way to frame the entire concept of “cost containment” (whether network-specific cost, the broader category of IT, or the cost of anything else, to be quite honest), it’s an integral aspect of what I’ll be proposing in this and subsequent articles in this series.
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Aggregating Application Logs From EKS on Fargate

Mar 22, 2021 By Jillian Rowe In SolarWinds
Today we’re going to talk about logging with Kubernetes on AWS using CloudWatch and SolarWinds® Papertrail™. We’ll cover setting up Papertrail, installing and configuring the rKubeLog package, viewing the logs in the Papertrail event viewer, and cross-checking those logs with the ones we see with kubectl. From there, we’ll set up a few different alerts.
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What Does Server Monitoring Mean in 2021? A Look at Modern Server Options and How to Monitor Them

Mar 22, 2021 By AppOptics In SolarWinds
A few years ago, monitoring was simple. We had all our servers somewhere in the data center; we just had to install a monitoring tool and gather all the data from every server. Things changed when we started moving to the cloud and then to containers. Today, we often need to monitor a variety of different sources. A “server” can be a physical machine, virtual machine, container, or even a serverless application. Therefore, our approach for monitoring needs to change.
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