The 4 Pillars of Effective Database Observability

Back in the early days of Microsoft SQL Server, database administrators had few resources to draw upon and learn from. In the ’90s, we had SQL Server Professional, edited by…

Log files are an important source of information about the state of an application and how it’s functioning. Therefore, log management and analysis are critical to application performance monitoring.   Operations…

SolarWinds has a diverse workforce of employees in 16 countries located in Canada, Western and Central Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. Similarly, we have over 300,000 customers located in…

Serverless architecture is a bit of a misnomer. The term itself implies your applications aren’t running on any servers, which isn’t the case. Serverless architecture means a cloud provider—such as…

As the world sends its support to the people of Ukraine in this time of unrest and uncertainty, the evolving conditions in the region raise the alert for the entire…

It all started on October 10, 2012. This was the date of the very first THWACKcamp™. In this, the inaugural piece of awesomeness, SolarWinds presented 15 30-minute sessions, showing the…

The addition of Amazon Web Services and VMware to the Defense Department’s milCloud 2.0 contract will make it easier for agencies to transition applications and services to the cloud. However, the acceleration of this effort may…

Many years ago, in my earliest IT jobs in Omaha, Nebraska, I realized the field of data was going to continue to evolve and, as such, there would always be…

At SolarWinds, we are a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, Partners, and communities. It is our People…

Over the past several years, I’ve helped numerous customers migrate SQL Server workloads to Azure SQL, including Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure SQL Virtual Machines. In this article, I’ll explain some…