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Managing Infrastructure in the Cloud Era
Check out this guide, which has practical information about managing and moving to the cloud, and provides guidance on cloud security, cost management, IT governance and service management, and so much more.
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The State of Service Management
Many organizations today are using on-premise IT service management (ITSM) solutions. But organizations are increasingly moving to ITSM solutions that are hosted in the cloud for greater flexibility and lower costs.
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The State of Service Management
Jump inside this guide to learn the 5 benefits your organization can earn through well-oiled IT service management processes – benefits that extend far beyond the walls of IT.
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5 Benefits IT Service Management Offers Your Organization
5 Benefits IT Service Management Offers Your Organization
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How to Simplify Monitoring for Complex Network Devices
If you’ve ever been tasked with monitoring and managing Palo Alto Networks firewalls, Cisco ASAs, F5 load balancers or Cisco Nexus devices, you understand this task can be very complex. Download this e-book to explore a number of ways to overcome common challenges of monitoring and managing these devices.
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Essential Enterprise Storage Concepts
From going over throughput and latency to measuring storage capacity, Solarwinds wants to arm your organization with the foundational storage knowledge so you can make informed and strategic decisions. To get a comprehensive education on storage, including storage best practices and 8 areas to master,, access this e-book.
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Network Changes: Dealing with “The Only Constant”
Your network isn't static. It's a dynamic, living entity that is constantly changing. But, if these changes aren't implemented right, it can have catastrophic results. Find out how to manage the changes in your network environment effectively and seamlessly.
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Thou Shalt Not Pass… I Think?!
Monitoring and managing VPN concentrators and the combined technology within devices like Cisco ASAs, can be challenging. However, organizations are starting to have a better handle on their networks because they can control them with adaptive devices. In this white paper, learn about breakthroughs for monitoring and managing these technologies.
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Prove It! Using PerfStack to Find the Real Performance Killers
Like Sherlock Holmes when solving a mystery, the raw data you start with has to be refined, put in the correct context, and dressed the part. Read this white paper to learn about the performance analytics capabilities built into the SolarWinds Orion Platform, which makes data available for display on a time-synchronized graph.
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Zero To Hero: 12 Essential Tips for the Accidental DBA
All too often, businesses can’t afford a full-time DBA, and database maintenance responsibilities fall on senior developers or the like—this one is for all of you ‘accidental’ DBAs. Read this white paper for 12 essential tips for working with SQL Server.
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The Monitoring ELI5 Guide: Technology Terms Explained Simply
Save a copy of this guide to learn about the complex and nuanced world of IT monitoring – through the lens of a five-year old.
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Monitoring 101: A Primer to the Philosophy, Theory, and Fundamental Concepts Involved in Systems Monitoring
Saying "let's monitor our network" presumes that you know what you should be looking for, how to find it, and how to get it without affecting the system you are monitoring—but that's a lot easier said than done. Download this white paper to learn about the underpinnings of monitoring techniques, theory and philosophy.
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Finding Visibility and Control in a Hybrid World: A Framework for Defining Your Service Monitoring Strategy
As organizations adopt transformational technologies, the management of business services becomes even more complex. Download this white paper to explore a framework for mapping your services and identifying gaps in your monitoring strategy, and how to design your organization to help drive service level improvements.
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MSP Documentation: Why it's Essential to Scaling Your Business
One of the most important moves an MSP can make as they grow is to document what they've changed. Use this expert guide to help understand how you should start, what information to keep, and which tools can help execute this documentation.
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MSP Marketing: Learn the Fishing and Farming Methods
This e-guide recaps the MSP 2 marketing tactics, fishing and farming, that Angela Leavitt explored at the MSPWorld conference.
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A Look at the Shared Responsibility Model for Cloud Providers
Click inside this expert guide by Dave Shackleford, founder of Voodoo Security, to learn how the shared responsibility business model is currently understood and used by MSPs, as well as one of its major blind-spots.
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What's New in the World of Managed Security Providers?
Go inside this expert guide to explore the 2 major ways managed security service providers have changed in recent years.
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Will MSPs Answer the Call for Cybersecurity Services?
Many customers today are looking for security offerings from their service providers, but is this the right direction to take your business? Read this guide to learn what concerns providers must be able to address, and how you could begin to integrate security services into your enterprise.
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How to Select the Best Network Monitoring Tool
From the essential to the nice-to-have, in this e-guide you will learn the criteria for choosing the best network monitoring tool for your enterprise.
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Database Design Has Everything To Do With Performance
In this expert e-guide, discover the affects database performance tuning and data migration have on database performance. Additionally, learn how Oracle segment space management can alleviate the issue of slowed performance after deleting database rows.
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Deploying and Optimizing SQL Server for Virtual Machines
In this white paper, you will gain deeper insight into the four critical resource areas that impact database performance and reliability in a virtual machine.
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Hyper-V® 2012 vs. vSphere™ 5.1 - Understanding the Differences
In order to help vSphere administrators make the knowledge leap between VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, this paper will outline the differences between the currently shipping products from both VMware and Microsoft: vSphere 5.1 and Hyper-V 2012. Discover key features in the products and be exposed to the feature details as that may exist.
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SAN Monitor for EMC
SolarWinds® SAN Monitor for EMC® is a free desktop tool that gives you the visibility into your physical storage to make sure it's in good health and lets you quickly and easily monitor EMC CLARiiON® arrays with at-a-glance insight into storage.
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Storage Response Time Monitor
Having trouble with storage latency issues? SolarWinds® Storage Response Time Monitor free tool tracks those sluggish VMs, shows the top host to datastore total response times and a count of additional high latency offenders.
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Choosing the Right Enterprise Network Management Solution
This EMA white paper is meant to serve as a guide to help decision makers purchasing or re-assessing their existing network management solutions. This paper discusses the challenges and the most widely available solution providers and how these tools can help achieve and deliver both reliability and performance on enterprise networks.