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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.

SolarWinds offers enterprise solutions that are the powerful, scalable, extensible and customizable.

IT pros must perform due diligence when selecting a monitoring vendor. If you are comparing SolarWinds against WhatsUp Gold, AcutalTech Media’s technical team has done a lot of the leg work for you. This short paper provides a detailed feature comparison for server, application and virtualization monitoring capabilities.

Authored by Dean Richards, Senior DBA, the SQL tuning methods presented in this paper are derived from years of SQL tuning and Oracle database performance consulting. The methodology follows a simple, repeatable, four-step process and is a valuable time saver because you’ll get it right the first time.

Authored by Dean Richards, Senior DBA, the SQL tuning methods presented in this detailed paper follow a simple, repeatable, four-step process. Several tuning case studies help illustrate how the method works in real applications. This methodology is a valuable time saver because it will help you get it right the first time.

This paper discusses best practices and tips for installing and configuring SQL Server 2014 for optimal performance.