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Find out how IT pros can save time in managing help desk tickets and support tasks. Learn some easy and effective ways to allow IT pros to simplify the manual and time-consuming process of providing IT support to end-users.

Most organizations today are evolving toward a hybrid IT enterprise architecture, meaning their operations are split between the cloud and the traditional on-premises network. Many important enterprise applications are moving to the cloud, along with some more basic infrastructure such as storage and application development platforms. When cloud services falter, you need to know why – but often lack visibility beyond the firewall.

In March of 2015, SolarWinds and ActualTech Media partnered to discover just how far virtualization has penetrated the data center and to identify the real challenges that face modern organizations. More importantly, we sought to understand the common characteristics of the modern data center in order to help end users best identify solutions that can ease the overall management and monitoring effort that must be expended. Do you struggle with capacity planning, storage performance or VM sprawl? You’re not alone! In this report, you’ll discover the most common virtualization challenges faced by your peers and more.

In this eBook, SolarWinds Head Geek, Kong Yang, defines the 4 essentials skills to master as a virtualization administrators: Discovery, Alerting, Remediation and Troubleshooting. Virt admins will learn the what, why, and how behind mastering these skills with real world examples and best practices.

Virtualization makes it much more difficult for DBAs to see the interaction between the database and the underlying server resources. Here are five scenarios that merit attention for DBAs with VMware.

Follow these 5 tips and learn how to create a simple and effective Network Operations Center (NOC) view for continuous network visibility and faster network troubleshooting. NOC doesn’t always have to be complicated.

With these best practices, learn how to fight latency and fine tune your environment for latency sensitive VMs.