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Building Service Strength in a Unified ITSM Platform

Mar 22, 2021 By Liz Beavers In SolarWinds
Heading to the gym, you have access to so many amenities in one place: cardio equipment, private studios, a pool, free-weight area, a basketball court. Imagine if those conveniences were located at separate facilities, forcing you to have separate memberships and make different trips to achieve a well-rounded workout – it doesn't bode for the best experience. In a different context, think about your employees' experience as they search for answers across multiple platforms for service providers.
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Is Your Home Built to Last? Investing in Cloud-Based ITSM for a More Secure Tomorrow

Mar 18, 2021 By Liz Beavers In SolarWinds
Buying a home requires thoughtful planning and takes a significant amount of time and resources. Beyond your list of must-haves, you’ve likely kept tabs on houses of interest to you, the state of the market, how safe the neighborhood is, and more. Another factor in your decision is how the house is equipped to grow with you—will it continue to meet your needs in the next five years? It’s critical to establish a sound foundation that works for you today and in the future.
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Effective Technical Writing Is Essential for Your Organization's Success

Mar 18, 2021 By Melissa Connors In SolarWinds
"No one likes documentation", chirped the little blue birds. The bird quotes in the image above are all taken from real tweets and are listed below for accessibility: I can't argue with "liking to write documentation" being a rare skill, since so many people are vocal about disliking it. That tweet might prove to be true, in which case, technical writers should simply be more appreciated for the rare gems that they are. In this blog post, however, I’m going to explain.
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Secure by Design | Securing the Software Development Build Environment

Mar 18, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
The recent SUNBURST cyberattack on the SolarWinds software build environment is a concerning new reality for the software industry, representing the increasingly sophisticated actions by outside nation-states on the supply chains and infrastructure on which we all rely. SolarWinds is committed to sharing our learnings about this attack broadly given the common development practices in the industry and our belief that transparency and cooperation are our best tools to help prevent and protect against future attacks.
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Database Cloud Migration Done Right - SolarWinds Lab Episode #95

Mar 17, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
The global pandemic has accelerated corporate planning for cloud computing and digital transformation by 2-4 years on average. But database migration, the process of moving a database from one place to another, is no walk in the park. Obstacles abound. Setbacks are common.
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Manually Add a Metadata Source in SentryOne Document

Mar 17, 2021 By Jon Moore In SolarWinds
SentryOne Document supports multiple metadata sources, and we plan to expand available providers in the future. But what if you want to add a metadata source that isn’t currently supported? This is where SentryOne Document’s Custom Metadata Import, available in both the Software and Cloud edition, can help. Leveraging this provider, you can manually insert any metadata source—DB2, REST API, or others.
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How Does Page Load Time Affect Your Conversion Rate?

Mar 16, 2021 By Pingdom In SolarWinds
As a consumer, you know how you respond to slow sites. You hit the back button or close the browser. As a business owner, you’re well aware of this. You’re a consumer, too, after all. So, you know page load time and conversion rate are related. But how exactly? How does it affect the bottom line? In this article, we’ll analyze how page load time affects conversion rates and by how much.
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Tweaking Your Monitoring Strategy for a Seamless End-User Experience

Mar 15, 2021 By Craig McDonald In SolarWinds
Technology and end users have an almost dichotomous relationship; as technology gets more complex, end users expect a more seamless experience. At the same time, end users are also looking for maximized application availability and performance. How can a federal IT team meet these increasing demands? The answer is monitoring. Most monitoring instances have been implemented as an afterthought or as a way to solve a single, specific problem.
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Application-Centric and Database-Centric Monitoring: Why You Need Both

Mar 15, 2021 By Ukpai Ugochi. In SolarWinds
How would you like it if your application shut down or started running slow without any warning? Let’s say, for instance, users who like your application try to access it, but aren’t able to. How would you know whether low traffic to your site is because users weren’t satisfied or because they simply weren’t able to access it? Users definitely won’t be satisfied when your application starts crawling with long response times.
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