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    The Art of Organizing & Simplifying IT Support

    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.

    (430 downloads)
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    Visibility From Your Network Into the Cloud: Today’s New Essentials

    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.

    (470 downloads)
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    Buyer’s Guide: Why SolarWinds SAM is a Smart Investment for Your IT Team

    Explore the various benefits SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor brings to your IT team in terms of increased efficiency, faster time to troubleshoot applications, and monitoring automation. Learn how your organization can benefit financially and economically by using Server & Application Monitor.

    (494 downloads)
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    Capacity Planning in Virtual Environments

    Virtualization changes the way just about everything is done in the data center, including capacity planning. Traditional physical server environments are fairly straightforward to plan for capacity, as they typically are dedicated to a single application.

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    Checklist for SQL Server 2012 Upgrade: Top 11 Tips

    It can be a daunting task to put together everything you need in a pre-upgrade checklist. This paper compiles the top eleven items that you should include in any checklist for migrating your database server to SQL Server 2012. Including these items is likely to help you avoid many potential upgrade issues.

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    Checklist for SQL Server 2014 Upgrade: Ensuring the Best Outcome for Your Upgrade

    This whitepaper will help you create a list of pre- and post-installation tasks to complete when migrating your database server to SQL Server 2014. Preparing and following a checklist is likely to help you avoid most, if not all, potential upgrade issues.

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    Continuous Monitoring: Managing the Unpredictable Human Element of Cybersecurity

    SolarWinds® partnered with leading government research provider Market Connections to survey 200 federal IT and IT security professionals to find out their top cybersecurity concerns and the obstacles they face when implementing IT security strategies. Download the whitepaper for an in-depth analysis of the survey, regarding data on Security Event Detection, Continuous Monitoring Implementation and return on investment, top obstacles and frustrations, and cybersecurity threats and threat sources.

    (423 downloads)