Is the SaaS Era Coming to an End?

The Software as a Service (SaaS) era is ending—at least, that’s what…

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SolarWinds Named a January 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for APM Suites

We are excited to announce that SolarWinds® AppOptics™ and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) have been recognized as a January 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Application Performance…

Covering Indexes in MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB

A covering index is a fantastic query performance optimization. An index covers a query when the index has all the data needed to execute the query, so the server can…

IT Alerting Best Practices: Notification Routing for IT Ops

Every operations team has its fair share of monitoring solutions. While you may not have achieved the perfect state of a single pane of glass, you likely have settled on two…

The DevOps Slide: Shift to the Left

A culture of collaborative and continuous learning. Transparent knowledge sharing. Agile methods and automation as a means of accelerating innovation. Building good software. These are some of the core tenets…

What IT Service Management Pros Should Know About CX (Customer Experience)

Discover key concepts of integrating customer experience (CX) management into your IT service management strategy and how it can improve your employee services.

The Iron Triangle of Sorting, Indexing, and Temporary Storage

Databases have a kind of iron triangle for specific types of query plans, whereby they can pick between two out of three things but can’t get all three of them.…

Head in the Sand About Cloud: Part 1

A recent argument on Twitter (“What?!” I can hear you exclaim, “People disagree on Twitter? This cannot be true!”) highlighted for me just how persistent people can be in holding…

Improving IT Security in a World Filled With Hackers

With hacker attacks taking place every thirty-nine seconds, ensuring your IT strategy has a bulletproof plan for IT security is crucial.

Why Move to the Cloud? Benefits of the Ever-Onward Advancement of Hybrid IT

There is no getting away from it: the word “cloud” is a buzzword in the IT industry. Maybe it’s graduated onto something more. Why Cloud? I remember being asked this…

What Is Concurrency in a Database?

Databases are confusing! Not only are they complicated bits of software, but database jargon is really complicated. Part of this comes from the number of words with multiple meanings: depending…