Tag Archives: SolarWinds

How to master monitoring (or sound like you have)

For hardened IT pros, weathered by years of alerts pinging and technical issues resolved, it’s simple to forget just how tough it is for managers in a business to get a handle on how and why monitoring solutions are so important. SolarWinds Head Geek, Sascha Giese, offers some tips on how managers can be better leaders for those who build and maintain these solutions, while also being better representatives of monitoring technology and teams in the boardroom.

Why DevOps and data are better together for your business

When done right, DevOps offers improved collaboration, the ability to innovate quickly, better quality, and shorter delivery cycles. The issue is many businesses become overawed by data’s apparent difficulty and fail to carry DevOps through to the data layer. Sascha Giese, Head Geek at SolarWinds, discusses some of the benefits organisations can expect from incorporating data into DevOps, and the issues that occur if you don’t.