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In this 45-minute session, Technical Evangelist, Database at SolarWinds, Kevin Kline, teaches critical techniques to transform database efficiency. Learn how to write SQL SELECT statements for maximum efficiency.

Optimizing Database Performance - Episode 2: SQL Best Practices

The Era of Operational Resilience is Here. Are You Ready?

Despite digital transformation, cost optimization, and tool consolidation, some organizations' IT systems still fall apart when something goes wrong. Why? Because hybrid IT ecosystems are evolving at an unprecedented pace. IT teams need a new approach to observability and service management.

Join us for our SolarWinds Day: The Era of Operational Resilience virtual event and be among the first to hear our exciting announcement—where we finally bring IT all together. By connecting people, processes, and technology, we enable learning and adaptation to build a more agile, future-ready IT ecosystem. 

You will... 
- Discover the latest innovations in our artificial intelligence-powered observability, database, and service management portfolios. 
- Get a first look at Squadcast, the newest addition to SolarWinds, designed to enhance operational resilience and transform incident response.  
- Engage in a round table discussion featuring Torsten Volk, principal analyst from Enterprise Strategy Group, that will explore the evolving IT landscape and the future of hybrid IT. 

Overcome complexity and take control of hybrid IT environments with a more innovative

SolarWinds Day: The Era of Operational Resilience

In this 45-minute session, Technical Evangelist, Database at SolarWinds, Kevin Kline, teaches critical techniques to transform database efficiency. Learn how strategic design drives database performance, scalability, and resilience.

What We'll Cover:
- Key Design Principles: The foundational elements for creating efficient tables and indexes.
- Transaction Workflows: Understanding how relational databases utilize memory, CPU, and I/O to handle workloads.
- Performance Pitfalls: Strategies to prevent locking, blocking, and deadlocking by making smarter design choices.

At the end of the session, Kevin will be available to answer your database design questions!

Prerequisites: Basic SQL skills

Presenter Bio: Kevin Kline is a database expert with 35 years of experience. Kevin is an 18-time Microsoft Data Platform MVP, dedicated to empowering database professionals through technology leadership and innovative solutions.
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Optimizing Database Performance - Episode 1: The Solid Foundations of Database Design

SolarWinds' own tech evangelist, Kevin Kline discusses how database performance is often difficult to ensure, but it's even harder when the database server is misconfigured. Unfortunately, most SQL Servers are misconfigured right out of the box. In this discussion you learn about which problematic default settings should always be set manually.

The Data Table - Misconfigured Database Servers

SolarWinds' own tech evangelist, Kevin Kline discusses how Database Administrators (DBA) are responsible for keeping database systems available, recoverable, and performing well. Database Engineers (DBE) are responsible for moving data between systems, transforming data for ingestion into other systems, and orchestrating the resulting complexities. In this session, we will explain the overlap and the differences between the two careers.

The Data Table - From DBA to DBE

SolarWinds' own tech evangelist, Kevin Kline discusses how automation is the most important skill for database professionals to scale up their work. And the most popular tool for automation of DBA work is PowerShell. In this webcast you will learn the basics of PowerShell with SQL Server & Azure SQL.

The Data Table - PowerShell Unveiling the Basics

SolarWinds' own tech evangelist, Kevin Kline, discusses a variety of techniques to save big money on your licensing costs for SQL Server on-premises and in the cloud, and much more!

The Data Table - Leap into Savings: Unleashing Database Cost Optimization

SolarWinds' own tech evangelist, Kevin Kline, discusses how any IT pro who has worked on-call shifts will tell you it is one of the least favorite parts of the job. Kevin discusses what steps we can take to reduce late-night interruptions and improve work-life balance, with a variety of solutions and partial solutions, such as smarter alerting, change control management, and anomaly detection.

The Data Table - Pull the Plug on Pager Duty Regain Your Nights and Weekends

SolarWinds' own tech evangelist, Kevin Kline discusses how Gen AI products like ChatGPT are taking the world by storm but haven’t yet become entrenched in D&A scenarios, and what we should expect from gen AI in the near future, and how can we take advantage of it.

The Data Table - Unlocking Gen AI in the Analytics for Optimal D&A Performance

SolarWinds' own tech evangelist, Kevin Kline discusses how Broadcom bought VMware in late 2023 and immediately began to slash jobs and change long-standing ways of doing business with VMware. We will dive deep into what this meant for you if you built your D&A infrastructure on VMware.

The Data Table - VMware 2024 - What Does the Future Mean for Your Databases Running on VMware?

SolarWinds' own tech evangelist, Kevin Kline discusses how more data professionals are working in cloud environments, either in a fully cloud enterprise or hybrid cloud/on-premises infrastructure. Consequently, more data professionals are included in difficult budget planning and cost optimization projects. In this session Kevin discusses what's new in IT financial operations (FinOps), along with tips and best practices for forecasting and optimizing costs.

The Data Table - FinOps for the Data Profession

SolarWinds' own tech evangelist, Kevin Kline discusses managing and monitoring multi-database platforms; research shows that around 70% of Fortune 1000 enterprises use multiple relational database platforms. In many of those enterprises, the DBAs themselves are specialists in only one of their supported DBs. Kevin explains how DBAs can better manage large numbers of databases provided by many different vendors.

The Data Table - Database Juggling Made Easy

In this webcast we discuss the outlook for artificial intelligence in SolarWinds and in the IT sector in the Asia-Pacific & Japan (APJ) region.

This webcast is based on the SolarWinds 2024 IT Trends Report called “AI - Friend or Foe?”, for which we surveyed nearly 700 IT experts globally—including in APJ.

There is significant support for government regulation of AI. Despite concerns regarding privacy, job displacement, and data security, the overall sentiment towards AI among IT leaders and professionals is optimistic.  

The consensus is that AI will play a pivotal role in IT operations, with a strong desire for faster implementation of AI technologies, particularly AIOps, within organizations.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about our findings on AI within the IT industry.

IT Trends Report: AI – Friends or Foe?

SolarWinds is expanding its cloud-monitoring capabilities across our self-hosted and SaaS observability offerings.
In this video, we'll explore new and expanded capabilities for our observability solutions and learn how this increased functionality enables IT teams or organizations to decide for themselves how they monitor and manage their hybrid IT.

We'll cover... What’s new with our comprehensive observability offerings
How to achieve comprehensive, full-stack hybrid IT visibility
How AI-assisted ITSM capabilities can help you generate faster issue resolution
How SolarWinds customer and THWACK MVP, Jake Muszynski with Nationwide Children’s Hospital, is addressing complexities within a hybrid IT environment. We're also excited to welcome Doug Bennett, Sr. Partner Development Manager at AWS, to share his insight on how AI can add value with observability.

Join us for this timely conversation and see how our solutions give you the utmost flexibility no matter where you are in your IT journey!

SolarWinds Day: Observability Anywhere. Precision Everywhere.

Organizations grapple with the complexities of overseeing IT health, performance, and security in today's Hybrid, dynamic digital environment, and choosing the right Observability solution can be key to success.  

The decision between embracing a cloud-based SaaS solution or opting for the familiarity of a self-hosted setup becomes pivotal. Our webcast, Observability Dilemma: To SaaS or Not to SaaS, That is the Question!  sets out some thought-provoking insights to help you make informed decisions for your business, help you succeed now, and plan for future success. A few of the areas we will cover: 

Organizations grapple with the complexities of overseeing IT health, performance, and security in today's Hybrid, dynamic digital environment, and choosing the right Observability solution can be key to success.  

The decision between embracing a cloud-based SaaS solution or opting for the familiarity of a self-hosted setup becomes pivotal. Our webcast, Observability Dilemma: To SaaS or Not to SaaS, That is the Question! sets out some thought-provoking insights to help you make informed decisions for your business, help you succeed now, and plan for future success. 

A few of the areas we will cover: 

• Understanding Observability and how it goes beyond mere monitoring to provide insights that surpass ordinary oversight. 
• A closer look at the advantages and limitations of SaaS and self-hosting solutions, understanding how each aligns with the critical role of Observability. 
• Points to consider when deciding on and planning for the right path for your IT journey. 
• Gain insights into phased cloud migration approaches, minimizing risks and ensuring a seamless transition without compromising Observability.

The Observability Dilemma: To SaaS or Not to SaaS, That is the Question!

Enterprises worldwide are adopting more selective stances toward their cloud solutions, with a greater emphasis on meeting strategic business goals and increasing flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. This shift involves more rigorous evaluations of ROI and, in situations where the ROI is inadequate, uprooting cloud-based applications, workloads, and data from the cloud back to local infrastructure – a process known as cloud repatriation.  

Cloud repatriation is driven by several factors, including security, compliance, performance, and internal policies. However, the number one reason for cloud repatriation is cost. This session will cover the five most important steps you can take to optimize your cloud spend before taking the drastic step of repatriation.  

In this session, you’ll learn how to:
• Right-size and match the instance types and sizes to your specific workloads while including spot, reserved, and standard instances in your analysis 
• Enable smart autoscaling and microservices to enable workloads to dynamically adjust consumption on demand 
• Be vigilant for unused resources since you must pay for everything running in the cloud, even if unused or unattached 
• Tune existing applications and databases for poor-quality SQL code and database designs since every cycle wasted on CPU, Storage, Memory, and I/O adds cost 
• Assess the cost-benefit choices between cloud VMs and managed services 

Join SolarWinds and the experts from Soaring Eagle to learn more about the world of cloud cost optimization from top experts in the field!

Stop Wasting Money: Five Ways to Reduce Cloud Database Spend

In an evolving, complex, distributed, and dynamic IT environment, security observation is necessary to make everything in IT more secure. Currently, IT teams focus on continuous monitoring as it is the most effective way to manage an environment proactively. However, SecObs helps organizations better understand their environments' complexities and security threats while providing real-time visibility to help prevent, detect, and remediate security issues.  

This webcast will discuss the importance of Security Observability and how customers can identify risks, vulnerabilities, and compliance status on a dedicated security dashboard. Learn more about: 

• Free Vulnerability Dashboard Integration in Hybrid Cloud Observability Advanced 
• Upgrades in Security Access Rights Manager and Patch Manager 

From managing access rights across the infrastructure to actively monitoring for suspicious activity and responding to real-time threats to compliance reporting, these solutions can help security teams increase productivity while keeping security costs in check.

Step Up Threat Detection with Security Observability

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