As organizations adopt new IT tools and deploy their applications using containers in hybrid cloud environments, ensuring high availability, security, and performance is getting more challenging. Traditional tools for infrastructure and application monitoring are not equipped to handle the scale and complexity of modern IT environments. In this evolving landscape, logs still hold crucial insights…

Taking the time to understand Azure virtualization technology and Azure application virtualization is an important step for businesses considering Microsoft’s Azure Stack. This guide will explain Azure virtualization, helping your business make informed virtualization management decisions. If you’re looking for a solution to help guide your approach to Azure application virtualization management, SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager…

The performance of your applications can have a significant impact on your brand reputation, revenue, and credibility in the digital marketplace. While many companies may still prefer to adopt a manual approach to application performance, doing so becomes increasingly challenging as your organization grows. As an alternative, many companies choose to adopt automated solutions for…

Active Directory is essentially a registry containing all the information about a network, including users, groups, computers and printers, and servers. Each of these things, whether physical or virtual, is considered an “object” in Active Directory, and has various attributes assigned to it, such as a name, number, or group membership. Active Directory is used…

If you’re an IT admin responsible for managing your organization’s critical assets in an enterprise network, Active Directory (AD) should be your number one tool. Whether you’re running a small network or a large one, managing a slew of assets, users, and permissions can be a tedious ordeal. AD facilitates and streamlines this process. A…

A security log keeps a digital record of all your server activity and can provide an IT security admin a centralized view to better log and track who has made what changes, as well as if there are any issues with the data. A security log can be crucial to your company. For some, a…

Keeping track of everything happening on your operating systems may sound daunting, but the right software allows you to monitor and manage every element and layer of your IT environment. Managing large enterprises and systems means sometimes things just get overloaded and fail. It’s impossible to prevent errors or issues, but you can keep a…

Oracle databases are an integral part of modern technological infrastructure, and they provide the backbone for how many companies house their data and process online transactions. Because so much of an organization’s important or sensitive information is stored in databases, they’re valuable targets for cyberattacks and hacking attempts. Considering how the costs of data breaches…

All businesses need a way to detect vulnerabilities on their networks. This is especially true for larger businesses and those with sensitive data—banking, government, finance, law, health care, and education are all industries in which safeguarding network data and infrastructure is paramount. But smaller businesses must also ensure their information is secure, without pouring all…

Network troubleshooting is a tricky process, and even if you’ve done it many times before, problems can arise in new ways anytime the network changes, a new device is added, or devices interact in a new way. Figuring out exactly where in the network the problem is and how to fix it can be difficult…

Servers provide functionality for other networked computers, and as such their operating systems differ from those run on regular computers. Windows Server by Microsoft is a leader in server operating systems, having released many Windows Server versions over the years, and it’s become the main rival for Linux. This guide provides information for network administrators…

One of the most frustrating things when working on a laptop or other computer device is when the Wi-Fi won’t connect. Employees may end up walking around the office, seeing the number of bars go up and down. At home, these issues can be annoying, but at work they can lead to large amounts of…

Virtualization is a process for users to create multiple simulated environments within one piece of hardware. Instead of using multiple pieces of hardware to run more than one operating system, virtualization creates a type of virtual barrier—called a hypervisor—to separate digital functions normally requiring multiple physical units. Essentially, virtualization uses software to act as hardware….

Since almost everything we own is connected to the internet, it’s time to take another look at cybersecurity. The nature of cybersecurity threats has changed since the early years of the web: cybercriminals are getting more sophisticated and less obvious. According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, in 2018, 74% of data breaches were…

The sheer volume of applications and devices on the market, paired with the rise of social media, has led to a flood of network traffic, putting network performance in jeopardy. As a result, IT departments are bombarded with service requests regarding pesky delays, broken images, dropped calls, and fragmented video conferences, all of which bring…

Patching software tends to be an annoyance for end users—and all too often, recommended patches go ignored. At the same time, admins may find it difficult to ensure all systems are adequately patched. Software patches and updates are of paramount importance, as they can prevent your software and systems from being vulnerable to bugs, malware,…

Virtual machines, or VMs, are becoming increasingly common in enterprise infrastructures, joining physical computers, printers, and database servers on the network. Their uses include application development and testing, storage, operating system flexibility, and workspace duplication. The challenges when dealing with VMs are complex, as they can use resources in different ways than physical machines and…

In modern computing environments, the use of virtual machines (VMs) is increasingly widespread. Having the appropriate systems and setups in place to manage and monitor your VMs is crucial. If a virtual machine has an issue or a collection of virtual machines stops working, you can lose large amounts of data or functionality. One key…

When you’re having problems with your network, nothing can feel like a bigger headache. You can’t figure out where the problem is or what’s causing it, and as soon as you solve a problem with one machine, another problem pops up somewhere else. But troubleshooting and identifying network problems can be straightforward. There are some…

Safeguarding the security of your IT infrastructure is no easy task. There are so many components to protect, and no firewall is entirely foolproof. Cyberattacks are constantly evolving, with the express intention of breaching your defenses and compromising your systems, and more come to light every day. Keeping pace with these developments requires your security…

As the number of devices, services, and servers you use in your business grows, there’s an increasing need to monitor your systems. Server monitoring, specifically Ubuntu server monitoring, covers the capacity, health, and activity of the applications and hosts on your server. Ubuntu server monitoring processes are designed to address all computing resources, with the…