Articles and Appearances

Here is a list of links besides this blog, where my articles have been published or where I’ve appeared in video or audio form:

Books, eBooks, & Whitepapers:

The Four Questions Every Monitoring Engineer is Asked
- On Amazon Kindle
- On Barnes & Noble Nook
- From Smashwords
- Honest-to-goodness-hold-it-in-your-hands Print version
(SolarWinds) Monitoring 101
(SolarWinds) Monitoring 201
(SolarWinds) It’s Automation, Not Art
(Amazon Kindle) Technically, These are Random Thoughts
(Barnes & Noble Nook) Technically, These are Random Thoughts
(SolarWinds) GNS3 to SolarWinds NPM Integration Guide
(Amazon Kindle) The Incomplete Guide to Integrating SolarWinds and Slack
(Dummies Press) Network Monitoring for Dummies v2.0
(Dummies Press) Systems Monitoring for Dummies
(SolarWinds) Solving for Scalability
(SolarWinds) How to Monitor Load Balancers, Firewalls, and Newer Network Devices
(SolarWinds) Network Mapping
(SolarWinds) Prove It! Using PerfStack to Find the Real Performance Killers
(SolarWinds) How to Simplify Monitoring for Complex Network Devices
(SolarWinds) Advanced Report Alerting
(SolarWinds) Device Level Understanding
(SolarWinds) The Monitoring ELI5 Guide
(SolarWinds) The Official SolarWinds Work From Home Guide
(SolarWinds) (Updated) Build the Perfect Lab with GNS3 and Solarwinds Orion

Interviews & Quotes (most recent first)

(DevOps.com, 9/16/2020) The Rise of the Cloud Economist: The Other CFO
(CIO.de, 9/16/020) Wie Ihre IT kompetenter wird
“How your IT becomes more competent”
(ZDNet, 9/1/2020) Hardware to consider adding to your 2021 IT budget
(BuiltIn, 8/14/2020) These Companies Enabled the Work-From-Home Transition of 2020. Here’s What They Learned.
(VMBlog, 7/20/2020) How IT Pros Can Maximize Their Summertime
(CIO Brazil, 5/6/2020) 7 maneiras de erradicar a incompetência da equipe de TI e evitar o pior
(CIO, 4/15/2020) Gerentes de TI enfrentam restrições de hardware durante pandemia
(CIO Dive, 4/15/2020) 6 charts to understand the coronavirus impact on IT
(CIO Dive, 4/3/2020) ‘The haves and have nots’: Disrupted IT managers contend with hardware constraints
(TechTarget, ) 4 causes of SSD failure and how to deal with them
(DevNet Zone at Cisco Live Europe 2020, 2/10/2020) Study tips for network engineers, developers, and life-long learners
(TechTrade Asia 1/6/2020) Work 4.0 in 2020: happier employees (maybe)
(ActualTech Media, 12/3/19) Downtime vs Downtime in IT
(Enterprisers Project, 6/17/19) Are MBAs Worth It?
(Mission Critical Magazine, 12/20/2018) 2019 Mission Critical Tech Predictions
(APM Digest, 11/2018) What You Should Be Monitoring to Ensure Digital Performance – Part 3
(Enterprise Mobility Exchange, 8/29/18) At VMworld 2018, Look For The Hidden Gems
(Geshtalt IT, 6/2018) IT Origins
(EM360 6/29/2018) Head Geek Leon Adato of SolarWinds talks to EM360 about their 2018 IT Trends Report
(APM Digest, 5/15/2018) The Essential Tools to Support Digital Transformation, part 7
(CIO.com, 5/21/18) 10 signs it’s time to jump ship to a new job
(ITWorld, 4/30/18) 14 Soft Skills Every IT Pro Needs
- also picked up on ITNews.com
(ITWorld, 4/10/18) The Worst IT Addictions and How To Cure Them
(GeshtaltIT 3/27/18) “Your Alerts Stink!”
(DataCenter Knowledge, 3/6/18) Data Center Jobs in a Post-Cloud World: How to Adapt
(DataCenter Knowledge) 2/21/18) Is the Cloud Killing Data Center Jobs?
(Enterpriser’s Project, 2/14/2018) 8 reasons To Love your Job in IT
(TechTrade Asia, 1/2018) The unique and amazing world of AI in 2018
(TechTrade Asia, 1/2018) The A-Z of 2018 predictions
(Entrepeneur Network 1/2018) 3 Biggest Cybersecurity threats Facing Small Businesses Right Now
(CDW Solutions Magazine) Securing the IoT Environment
(Computer Weekly, 4/16/17) Cloud, AI and security driving network monitoring industry
(People & Computers, Israel) “ניטור אפקטיבי דורש איסוף מידע מסביב לשעון”
(Providence High Tech News 2/14/17) Automation & Data Center Monitoring
(CareerBuilder 9/30/16) A Glimpse Into the Future of Network Engineers
- Reprint on The Technology Geek
(“Born For This”, chapter 10) The Self-Employed Employee
(SearchNetworking 6/1/15) Will IT generalists replace network engineering jobs?
(SearchNetworking, 9/1/13) When network monitoring tools improve business intelligence

Talks, Webcasts, Podcasts, & Seminars (most recent first)

ONGOING: host of weekly “Technically Religious” podcast March 2019-present
(ActualTech Media, 12/2/2020) Supporting Cloud Environments EcoCast
(ITR – IT Reality, 11/12/2020) “The Answer to…”, part 2
(ITR – IT Reality, 11/6/2020) The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything… at least in the ITR World, part 1
(ActualTech Media, 10/15/2020) Supporting Microsoft-centric Environments EcoCast
SolarWinds TechPod, 9/22/2020) IT Pro Day 2020
(On Premise, 9/8/2020) Your Data is Lying to You
(ActualTech Media, 9/2/2020) Four Steps to Bridging Your Journey to Microsoft Azure
(On Premise, 7/13/2020) A Single Source of Truth Can Bring Justice to the World
(On Premise, 7/6/2020) A Single Source of Truth Can Bring Justice to the World
(On Premise, 7/6/2020) IT Observability Principles Can Help Bring Justice to the World, Part 1
(SolarWinds TechPod, 6/23/2020) Return to Work: The New Different
(The Watercooler 6/17/2020) Security and IoT
(SolarWinds TechPod 5/19/2020) IT Trends with CTO Advisor Keith Townsend
(SolarWinds TechPod 4/07/2020) “Cloud Confessions” Uncover Changing APM Realities for Tech Pros
(SolarWinds TechPod 3/31/2020) Exploring APM “Cloud Confessions” With Adam Bertram
(My Tech Decisions, 3/22/2020) Cybersecurity While Working at Home Due to COVID-19
(Screaming In the Cloud) ‘But in IT, oh, it’s Tuesday. Everything’s about to change again.’ with Leon Adato
(ActualTech Media MegaCast, 12/4/19) Monitor, Manage, & Secure your Hybrid IT& Multi-Cloud IT Environment
(CloudNativeDay, Israel, 11/12/2019) The Four Questions Every Monitoring Engineer is Asked
(THWACKcamp keynote, 10/16/2019) The Case for Making Your Case
(TechConfessions, 5/30/19) TechConfessions the Show, S4 | E7 Leon Adato
(Cybersecurity Insiders) Access Rights Management – The Secret to Preventing Insider Threats and Data Breaches
(Weekly Tech News Hour) 5/20/2019 episode
(On Premise IT RoundTable) Bringing Yourself to Work
(TechPod) Training for the Future
(GestaltIT) IT origins – Leon Adato
(On Premise) Your Notifications Stink!
(SolarWinds, 1/2019) Upgrades
(SolarWinds, 1/2019) NCM Can Delight You and the Audit, Security, Provisioning, and NOC Teams. But Mostly You.
(SolarWinds, 8/2018) If An Application Fails in the Datacenter and No Users are On It, Will It Cut a Ticket?
(ByNet Israel 2017) Sympathetic Innovation: Your Key to Managing Hybrid IT
(DevOpsDays Baltimore 2017) Living an Unplugged Life as an IT Pro
(DevOpsDays Tel Aviv 2016) There’s an app for that
(DevOpsDays Ohio 2016) Living an Unplugged Life as an IT Pro
(SolarWinds) Custom Properties
(SolarWinds) Monitoring 102 (EMEA)
(SolarWinds) Monitoring 101 (EMEA)
(SolarWinds) NCM & Cisco SmartAdvisor (Dec 2015)
(SolarWinds) Choose the best IPAM for your business – What you need to know now! (2015)
(SolarWinds) Troubleshoot network critical paths (Jul 2015)
(SolarWinds) Monitoring 2.0: Will SDN Finally Move Us Past SNMP? (Jul 2015)
(SolarWinds) The Top Troubleshooting Issues Exchange Admins Face and How To Tackle Them (May 2015)
(SolarWinds) 5 Reasons Why “Free” Microsoft IPAM Will Cost You More (May 2015)
(SolarWinds) SolarWinds® Product Management Preview – Network Performance Monitor version 11.5 (Apr 2015)
(SolarWinds) Preview: NPM 11.5 (Apr 2015)
(Solarwinds) Eliminating downtime with DDI (Oct 2014)

Publications (most recent first)

(GeekSpeak, 12/1/2020) December Writing Challenge Day One: Connecting in a Disconnected World
(GeekSpeak, 11/30/2020) December Writing Challenge: Day Zero
(GeekSpeak, 11/30/2020) Announcing the December Writing Challenge
(GeekSpeak, 11/30/2020) IT Life Hacks: Monitoring
(VMBlog, 11/19/2020) Optimize Today’s Tech for Tomorrow’s Success
(GeekSpeak, 11/13/2020) THWACKcamp Day Two Wrap-Up
(GeekSpeak, 11/12/2020) THWACKcamp Day One Wrap-Up
(APM Digest, 11/09/2020) Application Stability Management vs. Application Performance Management – Who Needs Them and Why
(OrangeMatter, 10/16/2020) Tried and True Tech Tips
(NT4Admins, 10/6/2020) Künstliche Intelligenz und ihre Vorteile
(OrangeMatter, 9/23/2020) Attitude Adjustment: Accentuate the Positive
(TechInvest, 9/22/2020) Digital Twins: No Longer a Pipe Dream for Manufacturing?
(TechInvest, 9/21/2020) Turns Out IT’s “New Normal” Is Much of the Same
(People Matters, 9/21/2020) WFH 101: What happens when IT is in lockdown?
(TechInvest, 8/18/2020) Here’s How IT Can Talk Its Way to Better Budgets
(OrangeMatter, 8/17/2020) 2020: The Year IT Pros Were Built For
(OrangeMatter, 8/10/2020) It Takes a Village to Save a Spreadsheet
(Dataversity, 8/3/2020) The Changing Face of IT
(GeekSpeak, 7/31/2020) SysAdmin Day 2020: Business as Usual During the “New Different”
(CIO Sweden, 7/25/2020) Sju sätt att hantera underpresterande medarbetare
(translation: “Seven ways to handle underperforming employees”)
(Hospital and Healthcare, 7/23/2020) Can IT cure health care’s hybrid cloud woes?
(VMBlog, 7/20/2020) How IT Pros Can Maximize Their Summertime
(OrangeMatter, 7/17/2020) Friendship Is Magic. And Harder Than It Looks.
(OrangeMatter, 7/15/2020) The Harsh Realities of Working From Home
(OrangeMatter, 7/13/2020) Distributed Computing – When Everyone Is Working From Home
(365Master, 7/13/2020) 从“居家办公”到灵活复工，IT专业人士应如何应对“新常态”
(translation: From “home office” to flexible resumption of work, how should IT professionals deal with the “new normal”)
(OrangeMatter, 7/10/2020) Hunting and Gathering in the Age of COVID
(Data & Storage Asean, 6/26/2020) Hybrid Cloud Adoption in Healthcare: A Dose of Reality for IT Pros
(Networks Europe Magazine, 6/25/2020) Remote Workers of the World Unite
(??, 6/24/2020) IT如何“治愈”医疗行业混合云的“隐疾”
- “How IT can cure the hidden diseases of the hybrid cloud in the medical industry”
(IT Pro Portal, 6/24/2020) Q&A: Rising cloud spend and the need for cloud economists
(OrangeMatter, 5/27/2020) Career Corner: How to Promote Yourself Without Sounding Like a Jerk
(APM Digest, 5/21/2020) IT Pros Prioritizing APM, Hybrid Management and Security
(OrangeMatter, 5/8/2020) Take Your Video Call Out of This World
(CIO Magazine, 5/5/2020) 7 ways to root out IT staff incompetence
(PC World, 5/4/2020) How IT Pros Can Make Remote Working a Breeze—Even for Themselves
(Mission Critical, 5/1/2020) Hyperconverged Infrastructure Versus Cloud Strategies
(APM Digest, t4/28/2020) Over a Decade as a Remote IT Professional: Here’s My Advice
(Orange Matter, 3/26/2020) The Work From Home Series
- The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Introduction
- The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Finding Community and Connection
- The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Your Work Life at Home
- The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Your Home Life at Work
- The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Stay on Task and On Time
- The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: How Work Actually Gets Done
- The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Collaboration at a Distance
- The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Clear Communication
- The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Being Heard When You’re Not in the Room
- The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Sometimes It IS About the Tech
- The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: Additional (external) Resources
- The SolarWinds Guide to Work From Home: The Mostly Un-Necessary Summary
(MyTechDecisions, 3/31/2020) Your Employees Can Take Steps to Beef Up Their Home Network Security — Here’s How
(VMBlog, 3/16/2020) Leon Adato of SolarWinds Talks Tech Pros and Remote Work During COVID-19
(DataVersity, 3/9/2020) How Execs Can Evolve as Industry Evolves
(VMBlog, 2/19/2020) Calling All SMB Leaders: Help Your Pros Skill Up to Keep Up
(THWACK, 1/28/2020) Don’t Shut Your Pi-Hole, (The Sequel)
(DataVersity, 1/20/2020) A “Thing” Explainer – Technology Edition
(IP-Insider.de, 1/14/2020) 7 Technikprognosen für 2020
(VMBlog, 1/2/2020) SolarWinds 2020 Predictions: Evolving Executives in an Evolving Industry
(ITSecCity.de, 12/17/2019) Technikprognosen von SolarWinds für 2020
(NT4Admins, 12/10/2019) Evolution der Technikexperten: vom Serverraum in die Vorstandsetage
(THWACK) Unplanned Obsolescence
(THWACK) Foresight is 2020: My Predictions For the Coming Year
(DataVersity) Forget the Turtles and Hares: How to Manage a Successful Digital Transformation Project
(THWACK) December Writing Challenge Day 1: Monitoring
(THWACK) Announcing the December Writing Challenge 2019
(The Enterprisers Project) 7 unique ways to give thanks to your team
(VMBlog) Want to Future-Proof Your IT Environment? Stay Out of Technical Debt and Unleash the Chaos Monkey
(TechInvest) SDN for Network Security: Panacea or Placebo?
(OrangeMatter) Don’t Shut Your Pi-Hole, Monitor It! (part 2 of 2)
(OrangeMatter) Don’t Shut Your Pi-Hole, Monitor It! (part 1 of 2)
(Technically Religious) BlogElul Series (30 posts)
(OrangeMatter) IT Pro Day 2019 – It Figures
(Dataversity) The Tech Pro Evolution Revolution: From the Server Room to the Board Room
(SCMagazine) The Ticking Talent Time Bomb in IT
(Information Age) The AI arms race: 3 priorities for IT pros in the year ahead
(OrangeMatter) Using Our Brain (a Reflection on FaceApp and Harry Potter)
(OrangeMatter) SysAdmin Day 2019: The Secret to Getting Ahead
(EnterpriseWorking Magazine) Network Troubleshooting: How to Optimize Your Toolset to Tackle Today’s Network Issues
(Tech Coffee House) Plugging the Gaps in Network Complexity
(MissionCritical) IoT Security
(InformationWeek) Retain Your IT Staff by Doing These 3 Things
(Orange Matter) What’s Your Data Center Trying to Tell You? Performance Metrics Best Practices
(ITBrief) Don’t fear the robot: How to overcome automation anxiety
(TechInvest) Top Five Tips for IT Managers to Keep Their Network Running Smoothly Through Peak Events
(GeekSpeak) Advanced Reporting part 5: What Have We Learned?
(THWACK Product Forum) Report: All Active Alerts with Acknowledge action
(THWACK Product Forum) Advanced Alert Reporting part 4: Creating an Acknowledge Link Where Once There Was None
(THWACK Product Forum) Advanced Alert Reporting part 3: Hyperlinks in Data Output
(THWACK Product Forum) Advanced Reporting part 2: Making Web-Based Reports Do Your Bidding
(THWACK Product Forum) Advanced Reporting Part 1: Re-Creating the “All Alerts” Resource With Extras
(DataVersity) Pulling the Plug on Legacy Technology: What You Need to Know
(DNSSTuff.com) Top Free Systems Monitoring Tools
(DNSStuff.com) Top Free Network Monitoring Tools
(GeekSpeak) Everything I Needed to Know About I.T., I Learned from “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” part 3
(GeekSpeak) Everything I Needed to Know About I.T., I Learned from “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” part 2
(GeekSpeak) Everything I Needed to Know About I.T., I Learned from “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” part 1
(OrangeMatter) Head in the Sand About Cloud, part 3
(OrangeMatter) Head in the Sand About Cloud, part 2
(OrangeMatter) Head in the Sand About Cloud, part 1
(DataVersity.Net) Fine Arts Majors in the DataCenter: Do You Really Need an IT Degree?
(GeekSpeak) December Writing Challenge 2018: Journey’s End
(VMBlog) A Programmer’s Paradise
(THWACK) I Have the Power! How Upgrades Let You Level Up Your Monitoring Awesomeness
(GeekSpeak) What is Your IT Legacy?
(December Writing Challenge) DAY 1 – Slow Down, You Crazy Child
(GeekSPeak) In Honor of Stanley Martin Lieber
(SecurityBrief.com.au) Don’t let your network outgrow your IT team
(THWACK.com) When is SolarWinds IPMonitor Right For You?
(GeekSpeak) Directions
(APM Digest) IT Professionals Day 2018: A World Powered by Tech Pros
(IT Pro Day) Happy IT Pro Day!
(GeekSpeak) Rear View Mirror: Looking Back at Four Years as SolarWinds Head Geek
(THWACK) TC18: Customizing Polling Intervals with the Orion SDK
(APM Digest) IT Professionals Day 2018: A World Powered by Tech Pros
(GeekSpeak) Finding Strength in Failure
(GeekSpeak) Happy IT Pro Day
(IT Pro Portal) Keeping backup on the back foot: is the problem solved?
(Network Computing) How IT Pros Can Bridge the IT-Business Gap
(Enterprise CIO) The big bet on AI: Expectations versus reality
(Data Center Journal) Solving for Scalability
(Global Banking and Finance Review) Should backup be well and truly archived within financial services?
(GeekSpeak) The Echo Chamber: Mapping, Visualization, and Data
- Also posted on OrangeMatter
(GeekSpeak) CiscoLive US 2018 Wrap-Up
(GeekSpeak) The Word “Customer” is NSFW
- Also posted on OrangeMatter
(GeekSpeak) Footloose at CLUS
(Data Center Journal) Why Do We Put Up With Monitoring Solutions That Hurt?
(ITPro Portal) Bridging the leadership gap: Five communication tips for IT pros
(Enterprise Management 360) Head Geek Leon Adato of SolarWinds talks to EM360 about their 2018 IT Trends Report
(APM Digest) Universal Monitoring Crimes and What to Do About Them, part 2
(APM Digest) Universal Monitoring Crimes and What to Do About Them, part 1
(OrangeMatter) The Complexity Conundrum
(OrangeMatter) Who Protects the Protectors
(OrangeMatter) The Burden of Monitoring Load Balancers
(OrangeMatter) No Network for Old Men
(ITWorld) 7 Ways to Embrace Shadow IT and Win
(APM Digest) IT Trends 2018: The Intersection of Hype and Performance, part 2
(APM Digest) IT Trends 2018: The Intersection of Hype and Performance, part 1
(GeekSpeak) Why Is This Monitor Different from All Other Monitors?
(GeekSpeak) A Look at IT “addictions”
(Dzone) Putting Real Meaning into Digital Transformation: IT Essentials
(DataCenter Journal) Improving Certification Certainty (Part 2)
(DataCenter Journal) Improving Certification Certainty (Part 1)
(DataCenter Journal) Certifications: Demonstration or Decoy?
(DataCenter Journal) Data Center Monitoring Automation: Getting Started
(DataCenter Journal) Two Recurring Issues in Data Center Monitoring Automation
(DataCenter Journal) Automation the Way Automation Is Meant to Be
(DataCenter Journal) Data, Information and Action
(GeekSpeak) Leon’s Log: Traveling With Joy
(GeekSpeak) Leon’s Log: Adios Barceona!
(GeekSpeak) Leon’s Log: Bienvenidos Barcelona
(TechInvest) The time to think about IoT security is now!
(Compare The Cloud) How to Overcome HybridIT’s Common Challenges
(The Enterpriser’s Project) The AI era: 4 skills IT pros need to develop
(Enterprise Innovation) Forward-thinking businesses’ triple threat in 2018
(Geekspeak) Everything I Needed To Know About IT, I Learned from Logan (part 4)
(Geekspeak) Everything I Needed To Know About IT, I Learned from Logan (part 3)
(Geekspeak) Everything I Needed To Know About IT, I Learned from Logan (part 2)
(Geekspeak) Everything I Needed To Know About IT, I Learned from Logan (part 1)
(Word a Day 2017) Postscript
(Continuity Central) The Three Top Emerging IT Trends
(Word-a-Day 2017) Identity
(IT Brief) The ethics of automation: Is it bad to automate my entire job?
(Data Center Journal) The Convention Go-er’s Guide
(IT Pro Portal) Could Moral AmbiguityBe Hurting IT Professionals
(GeekSpeak) A View from the Air
(DataCenter Journal) The Plural of Anecdote
(GeekSpeak) THWACKcamp Preview: My Journey to DevOps Monitoring
(GeekSpeak) Adding Fuel to the Fire: My MS:Ignite Wrap Up
(GeekSpeak) Leon’s Log: On Fire for Ignite
(GeekSpeak) What Makes an IT Professional?
(GeekSpeak) THWACKcamp 2017 – When DevOps Says “Monitor”
(GeekSpeak) Monitoring 201
(GeekSpeak) What Would the Geek Do
(GeekSpeak) My Certification Journey
(APM Digest) Happy SysAdmin Day 2017
(APM Digest) Earth Day 2017: How are you keeping you data center “green”
(ITProDay.com) What Makes an IT Professional
- (reposted on GeekSpeak)
(Information Age) Dealing with Division Through DevOps
(Information Age) Do You and Your Network Have Trust Issues?
(Dataversity) How IT Can Keep a Seat at the Data Transformation Table
(IT Pro Portal) Forget artistry, opt for IT automation
(APM Digest) Digital Experience Monitoring: Closing the Performance Visibility Gap
(APM Digest) Who Can IT Professionals Trust?
(Data Center Journal) What is Good Data Center Monitoring?
(Cloud Expo) Cloud-proofing your job
(IT Pro Portal) Is Your Network Lying to You?
(IT Briefcase) Stages of Network Automation
(GeekSpeak) TravelLog: CiscoLive 2017, part 2
(GeekSpeak) TravelLog: CiscoLive 2017, part 1
(Data Center Journal) Monitoring Nirvana
(GeekSpeak) Kiwi Syslog 9.6 No Longer Trapped
(GeekSpeak) Expo-Ditious
(Data Center Journal) Cloudy with a Chance of HybridIT
(APM Digest) Cloud Computing and Hybrid IT: Evolving Norms – Part 2
(APM Digest) Cloud Computing and Hybrid IT: Evolving Norms – Part 1
(Data Center Knowledge) Trends in Systems Migration to the Cloud
(Federal Technology Insider) Networking Evolution: Preparing for 2020
(Network Security Magazine) Monitoring and automation: it’s easier than you think
(Data Informed) Performance Metrics: What’s Your Data Center Trying to Tell You?
(IT Pro Portal) The Lies of an IT Pro
(Cloud Strategy Magazine) Tech Primer: The Stages Of Systems Automation
(Data Center Journal) Designing a Data Center Maturity Model
(GeekSpeak) Berlin404: Hype Not Found
(Data Center Journal) Learning from History, 2017 Data Center Edition
(Data Center Journal) Automation’s Impact on Data Center Monitoring Alerts
(GeekSpeak) Trite Business Lies
(GeekSpeak) CiscoLive 2017: WILLKOMMEN ZURÜCK
(IP-Insider) Netzwerke in der Welt der hybriden IT
- Reprinted: DataCenter Insider
- Reprinted: IT-Business
(APM Digest) More on SolarWinds Prediction for APM in 2017
(Administratores.com) Seis coisas que os administradores de rede “das antigas” precisam lembrar
(Segs) Dados, informações e ação
(MITecnologia) Artigos: É automação, não arte
(IT Brief) The best way for IT pros to save themselves time
(CSO Magazine) The Networking Evolution: an opportunity worth seizing
(ChiefIT) SolarWinds 2017 Predictions
(CSO Magazine) SolarWinds 2017 Predictions
(HKITBlog) 香港撈 IT：2016 是「疲倦」及「具挑戰」的一年！
(NetWorkAsia) Predictions that may help businesses hit the IT jackpot
(ITWire) FaaS, SaaS, Blockchain and a few other buzzwords for 2017
(ComputerWorld) Five trend predictions for IT in 2017
(CompareTheCloud) Network survival handbook: 7 essential tips
(NT4Admins) Netzwerkgeheimnisse und Bandbreitenrätsel: Die Wahrheit ist irgendwo da draußen
(IoT Global Network) IT for IoT: Plan and manage bandwidth and network capacity
(IT-Business) So optimieren Sie Ihr Toolset
- Reprinted in IP-Insider
(NT4Admins) Die fünf Phasen des Überwachungskummers
(Security Insider) Nicht den Respekt für ältere Technologien verlieren
- Reprinted in IP-Insider
(InfoSecurity-magazine) A Day in the Life of an IT Pro: Hacked off with IoT
(NT4Admins) Flexible und zuverlässige Netzwerke: Ein realistischer Ansatz für aktuelle und zukünftige Szenarien
(Security Insider) Die Netzwerküberwachung durch Admis hat ausgedient
(Security Insider) Sicherheitsregeln für IoT-Geräte im Unternehmen
(CSO Magazine) The Internet of Insecure Things
(SearchNetworking) Tapping into old skills in the face of networking evolution
(DataCenter Journal) Two Recurring Issues in data Center Monitoring Automation
(WebInsider) Monitoramento em TI em cinco estágios
(LanLine) Gute Karten für WLAN-Administratoren
(Br-SysAdmin) Os cinco estágios do luto (do monitoramento)
(iMasters) Planejamento de capacidade de rede e gerenciamento de largura de banda na era da IoT
- also posted on ITForum365
(Network Computing) Flag, castle, dog and pizza!
(IT Briefcase) The Network: Still the Foundation of IT
(IP Insider) Sicherheitsregeln für IoT-Geräte im Unternehmen
(GeekSpeak) A Challenge In Review
(GeekSpeak) Eat, Pray, DevOps
(GeekSpeak) Out Of Office: DevOpsDays Tel Aviv Preview
(GeekSpeak) Everything I Needed to Know about a Career in I.T. (Part 4)
(GeekSpeak) Everything I Needed to Know about a Career in I.T. (Part 3)
(GeekSpeak) Everything I Needed to Know about a Career in I.T. (Part 2)
(GeekSpeak) Everything I Needed to Know about a Career in I.T. (Part 1)
(GeekSpeak) Unplug to Recharge – a guide for IT Professionals (Part 3)
(GeekSpeak) Unplug to Recharge – a guide for IT Professionals (Part 2)
(GeekSpeak) Unplug to Recharge – a guide for IT Professionals (Part 1)
(GeekSpeak) Debriefing DevOpsDays Ohio
(CSO Australia) Liar, Liar, Pings on Fire
(NetworkComputing) IT Pros’ Growing Role Deserves Recognition
(IT PRo Day) From One IT Pro to Another: Happy IT Pro Day 2016
(GeakSpeak) The Legacy of “Challenge Accepted”
(SearchNetworking) Automation key element in network monitoring best practices
(GeekSpeak) Called to Account
(Interview with “Database Trends and Applications) What Does the Yahoo Breach Mean for Data Security?
(Portogente) TI está em todos os lugares
(Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review) The State of Hybrid IT in Healthcare
(DataCenter Journal) Automation the Way Automation is Meant to Be
(DataCenter Journal) Data, Information, and Action
(NetworkComputing) Managing Network Sprawl
(GeekSpeak) The SolarWinds Geek’s Required Reading List
(InfoSecurity Magazine) A Day in the Life of an IT Pro: Hacked off with IoT
(SearchNetworking) IT pros need to raise security umbrella as devices proliferate
(GeekSpeak) What I Saw at Cisco Live
(GeekSpeak) Cisco Love for Cisco Live
(Young Upstarts) Optimize Your Toolset To Tackle Today’s Network Issues
(SearchNetworking) The need for network end-to-end visibility in hybrid IT
(GeekSpeak) DevOpsDays DC Denouement
(EnterpriseTech) Avoiding the Nightmare of Downtime in the Cloud
(GeekSpeak) DevOps Days DC: Are We There, Yet?
(GeekSpeak) Submit Your Slogans!
(GeekSpeak) Convention Go-er’s Guide, Part 1
(Petri) The Importance of Tools that Provide True Network Visibility
(IT ProPortal) A Day in the Life of an IT Pro
(Sys-Con) Monitoring Clickbait
- Reprinted in ITProPortal
(GeekSpeak) SolarWinds Head Geek Summer Fun Reading List
(FierceNetworking) Discipline is the key…
(GeekSpeak) Convention Recap: InterOp 2016
(GeekSpeak) What old network engineers need to remember
(GeekSpeak) Worth the risk now…
(GeekSpeak) Knowing vs Understanding
(GeekSpeak) Un-Acceptable
(FierceEnterprise) Even as the network evolves, the first fundamental truth of networking still holds true
(FierceEnterprise) Be curious to avoid being blindsided by networking developments later
(FierceEnterprise) 3 network device management ‘don’ts’
(FierceEnterprise) Automate simple network administration tasks to reduce alerts
(FierceEnterprise) Your network is more than a map and inventory list
(FierceEnterprise) Improve configuration management with regular backups
(FierceEnterprise) Don’t worry about SDN
(SearchNetworking) IT networking career lessons in a time of change
(PCR Online) Leap Year 2016: How IT pros can use the extra day to getting ahead in business security
(CloudExpo) Network Device Management Do’s and Don’t’s
(GeekSpeak) What old Network Engineers Need to Remember
(NetworkComputing) What old IT Pros Need to Remember
(CloudExpo) A Realistic Approach to Achieving Flexible Networks for Today and Tomorrow
(SearchNetworking) IPv6 connectivity: Ignore at your own peril
(NetworkComputing) 5 Things Your Network Needs in 2016
(Federal Technology Insider) Networking Survival Guide: 7 Essential Rules
(SearchNetworking) Network configuration management tools could pave the way to SDN
(Enterprise Tech) Network Management Automation: The First Step Toward SDN
(Resource Center) How To Fix Network Experience Problems
(Resource Center) Bandwidth Problems? 3-Steps to Diagnose Bandwidth Issues
(Resource Center) 4 Steps to Create a Wireless Heat Map
(Resource Center) An Introduction to SNMP Basics
(Resource Center) 4 Steps to Forecast and Plan Your Network Capacity Needs
(Resource Center) DPI Training: The What and Why of Packet Analysis
(Resource Center) Throttling Network Bandwidth
(Resource Center) Four Ways Your Network Could Change in Four Years
(EnterpriseTech) How to Optimize Your Toolset to Tackle Todays’ Network Issues
(NetworkComputing) The Five Stages of (Monitoring) Grief)
(GeekSpeak) InfoSec vs NetOps: Is Datacenter Detent Possible?
(SEGS) Guia de sobrevivência na rede para a empresa moderna – Por Leon Adato
(Search Networking) Persuading Management to Support the IT Buying Process
(ABC Technology+Games) Preparing for those Black Swan IT Events (and whether you should)
(Mobile Time) IoT e a inovação do pensamento no Brasil
- Reposted on Louco Por Android
(IT BriefCase) IoT Should Also Stand for Innovation of Thought
(SearchNetworking) SDN Monitoring Means New Transitions for Engineers
(YoungUpstarts) 8 Applications You Should Hunt Down on Your Network
(GeekSpeak) Securing the Line When Cutting the Cord
(GeekSpeak) What Defines You?
(GeekSpeak) What Makes Us Go To Such Extremes
(Converge!) Blueprint: The Evolution of the Network (part 2)
(Converge!) Blueprint: The evolution of a network (part 1)
(TechTarget) Preparing for the Big One
(GeekSpeak) Respect Your Elders
(GeekSpeak) Convention Season
(TechTarget) When, Not What, Determines Today’s Networking Career
(GeekSpeak) Network Troubleshooting Tools I Can’t Live Without
(GeekSpeak) Convention, Interrupted
(GeekSpeak) Logfile Monitoring – I do not think that word means what you think it means
(GeekSpeak) Sour Notes in iTunes
(GeekSpeak) Convention Season
(NetworkComputing) 8 Tips for Managing Network Scalability
- Reposted on Sys-Con.com
- Reposted on FierceEnterprise Communications
(TechTarget) Avoiding the Return of the Dreaded Opaque Network
(GeekSpeak) Audio Echo: My Podcast with Packet Pushers.net
(GeekSpeak) The Top 5 Network Issues You Didn’t Know You Had
(GeekSpeak) Why I Care About Awesome Women in Monitoring
(GeekSpeak) Appstack a Compass to Guide You Through the Forest
(TechTarget) Using NetFlow monitoring tactics to solve bandwidth mysteries
(NetworkComputing) IT Monitoring Scalability Planning: 3 Roadblocks
(TechTarget) Time For a Monitoring Application? What To Look For.
(InfoTech Spotlight) The cost of NOT monitoring
Reposted on GeekSpeak with a link to a value estimation tool
Reposted the long-form of the story on AdatoSystems Monitoring
Reposted on Enterprise Innovation
Reposted on SIM Management
(GeekSpeak) The Cost of Monitoring (with the wrong tool) Part 1
(GeekSpeak) The Cost of Monitoring (with the wrong tool) Part 2
(GeekSpeak) The Cost of Monitoring (but not Automating)
(PacketPushers) The “Four Questions When Joining a Monitoring Team”
- Part 1: Why Did I Get An Alert?
- Part 2: Why Didn’t I Get An Alert?
- Part 3: What is Being Monitored On My System?
- (GeekSpeak) Part 4: What WILL alert on my system
- Part 5:
(FreshBusinessThinking.com) Getting Down to Business: The Impact of Network and Application Performance
(IT Canada Online) SOLARWINDS EXEC: IT MONITORING BENEFITS OUTWEIGH COSTS
(OnlyIT.ca) IT Monitoring: ignore it at your per
(GeekSpeak) My Name is Leon Adato, and I’m a SolarWinds Head Geek

Videos (most recent first)

(SolarWinds, 11/30/2020) IT Life Hacks: Networking
(THWACKcamp 11/12/2020) Signal From the Noise: A Career Built by Monitoring
(THWACKcamp 11/12/2020) Intro to APIs for People Who Hate to Program
(THWACKcamp 11/12/2020) The Perfect Lab – Cloud and GNS3
(THWACKcamp 11/12/2020) Monitoring for Managers – What You Need to Know to Sound Like a Monitoring Expert
(THWACKcamp 11/12/2020) How to “People” Better
(THWACKcamp 11/12/2020) Monitoring Journey Live Q&A
(SolarWinds Lab) 88 – Building Stellar Orion Reports From the Ground Up
(Network Flowetry) – Ping
(Network Flowetry) – Twinkle Twinkle, Little Flow
(THWACKcamp 2019) – Change is Good. Monitoring Change is Better
(THWACKcamp 2019) – Five Tools, Enormous IT Impact
(THWACKcamp 2019) – So, You Inherited Orion
(THWACKcamp 2019) – The Four Questions Every Monitoring Engineer is Asked
(SolarWinds Lab) – Network Insight for Palo Alto
(SolarWinds Lab) – Joe vs the NetFlow Volcano
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) – Automating Alert Trigger Actions for Virtual Environments
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) – Assigning a View to a User in the Orion Platform
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) – Setting up Universal Device Pollers (UnDPs)
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) – Setting up Single Sign-On for Orion Login
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) – Setting up an SSL Certificate for Orion Login
(SolarWinds Lab) 73 – You Asked, We Delivered!
(SolarWinds Lab) 71 – DevOps for the Rest of Ops
(SolarWinds Lab) 68 – show your system who’s the boss
(SolarWinds Lab) 67 – How to use the new logging module for orion
(THWACKcamp 2018) What the US Government Can Teach You About Securing SolarWinds
(THWACKcamp 2018) There’s an API for That: Introduction to the SolarWinds® Orion® SDK
(THWACKcamp 2018) Alerts, How I Hate Thee
(THWACKcamp 2018) Who Watches the Watcher?
(THWACKcamp 2018) New Job, New to SolarWinds?
(THWACKcamp 2018) Monitoring Like a Network Engineer When You’re a SysAdmin
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) The Next Level of Automated Mapping
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Curious about containers?
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Introducing SolarWinds Configuration Monitor
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Monitoring containers in SAM and Virtualization Manager
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Who “owns” vSAN in IT?
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Monitoring VMWare vSAN with SolarWinds
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) New Features in NetPath
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Orion Maps
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Nexus Port Management
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Nexus vPC Management
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Nexus ACL Management
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Solving for Scalability
(SolarWinds Lab) The Right Tool for the Job
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Answers To Your Advanced SolarWinds Upgrade Situations
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) How to Recover Gracefully If Your Upgrade Runs Into Problems
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Where to Find Information About Your SolarWinds Environment
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) What to Do Before You Upgrade SolarWinds
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Link Your SolarWinds Account to Orion and THWACK
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Fix These Things Before You Upgrade SolarWinds
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Using Automation to Apply SAM Templates
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Leveraging Automation In Your Device Discoveries
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Using the Centralized License Console
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Enabling High Availability Options in Orion
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Installing the Linux Agent
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Network Device Compliance with NCM
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) F5 Load Balancer Monitoring in NPM
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Binary Config Backup in NCM
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) NCM + NetPath Integration
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) New Features in NetPath 4.2
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Beyond Updates – Benefits of SolarWinds Patch Manager
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) A Brief SolarWinds Patch Manager Overview
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) How Patch Manager Helps Improve Enterprise Reliability
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Configuring the HTTP Form Component in SAM
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Configuring the SAM Web Link Component
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Configuring the HTTPS Component in SAM
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Configuring the SAM Windows Service Component
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Configuring the SAM Performance Monitor Counters
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Configuring the SAM WMI Query Component
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Configure the SSL Certificate Expiration Component in SAM
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) SAM Email Port Monitor Templates
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) SAM Port Monitor component
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) Oracle User Experience Monitor Component
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) What is HybridIT, Really?
(SolarWinds Lab Bits) What Does “Monitoring” Actually Mean?
(SolarWinds Lab) SAM Template Rematch
(THWACKcamp 2017) Performance Tuning for the Accidental Cloud DBA
(THWACKcamp 2017) When DevOps Says “Monitor”
(SolarWinds Lab) Certithon 2017
(SolarWinds Lab) Hybrid IT
(SolarWinds Lab) Monitoring 201: Beyond the Basics
(SolarWinds Lab) SAM Template Shootout
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) Setting Up Advanced Multiple Alert Triggers, Part 2
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) Setting Up Advance Multiple Alert Triggers, Part 1
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) Automation as an Alert Trigger Action
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) Setting Up an Alert Trigger for Database Plan Cache Issues
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) Effective Interrogation: Gathering Alert Information From Requestors
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) Setting Up Alert Triggers Based on Multiple Conditions
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) Setting Up Alert Reset Conditions
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) Using Baseline Data for Alert Trigger Thresholds
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) Things to Do BEFORE You Turn On a New Alert
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) Alert Philosophy – Separating the Signal from the Noise
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) Logfile Monitoring Philosophy
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) Monitoring Windows Eventlog in SAM
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) Adding a PerfMon Counter to a SAM Template
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) PerfMon Deep Dive
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) WMI Deep Dive
(SolarWinds) How Does Your Automation Make You Feel?
(SolarWinds) Automation – Elegantly Simple
(SolarWinds) First Rule – Talk About Automation
(SolarWinds) Feel The Fire Of Automation
(SolarWinds Lab) SAM 6.3 – Unexpected Elegance
(THWACKcamp 2016) NetPath: Every Node, Every Path. Every Network
(THWACKcamp 2016) Troubleshooting With SolarWinds – The Case of the Elusive Root Cause
(THWACKcamp 2016) Make Monitoring a Priority (Outside Your Team)
(THWACKcamp 2016) Don’t Hate Your Monitoring
(SolarWinds Lab) Upgrades Un-Mystified
(SolarWinds Lab) NetPath’s SuperFriends: NCM and NTA
(General Promo) SolarWinds NPM
(SolarWinds Lab) GNS3 and NPM
(SolarWinds Lab) Monitoring 103 – All About Alerts
(SolarWinds Lab) Monitoring 102
(SolarWinds Lab) Do Something Awesome in 2016
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) Rebuilding Database Indexes
(What Would the Geek Do) Better Monitoring Through Baselines
(What Would the Geek Do) Syslog and Trap Message Slowdown
(What Would the Geek Do) Remote Site DHCP Server isn’t responding
(What Would the Geek Do) Why are Alerts Coming Late
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) What is WMI
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) Understanding Config Backups
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) What is IPSLA
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) What is NetFlow
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) What is Ping
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) What is Syslog
(SolarWinds Mini-Lab) What is SNMP
(SolarWinds Lab) Monitoring 101
(GeekMemories) When the Light Bulb Turns On
(GeekMemories) Cognitive Dissonance
(GeekMemories) Tooth Faerie Delayed
(GeekMemories) Good parenting
(GeekMemories) It’s a technical term for
(SolarWinds Lab) SolarWinds Support Secrets
(SolarWinds Lab) MySQL monitoring with DPA
(SolarWinds Lab) Amp Up Compliance and Security with NCM
(SolarWinds) ThwackCamp2015: Troubleshooting Critical Paths
(SolarWinds) ThwackCamp2015: Bridging the Great Divide
(SolarWinds) ThwackCamp2015: Buy Me a Pony
(SolarWinds) Geek Memories – Cognitive Dissonance
(SolarWinds) Geek Memories – Tooth Faerie Delayed
(SolarWinds) Geek Memories – When the Lightbulb Turns On
(SolarWinds) Geek Memories – Good Parenting
(SolarWinds Lab) Two Geeks and a Goddess
(TheCurrentStatus) Episode 21: Removing the WhiteNoise from Alerting & Monitoring
(SolarWinds Lab) Linux Love
(SolarWinds Lab) You’ve already been hacked!
(SolarWinds) Meet the HeadGeeks: Leon Adato
(SolarWinds Lab) NPM 11.5
(SolarWinds Lab) Monitoring Active Directory with SolarWinds LEM
(ThwackCamp 2014) The Accidental Admin
(ThwackCamp 2014) Fill Up Your IT Toybox
(SolarWinds Lab) Configuring SPAN Ports, Packet Analysis and NetFlow Correlation
(SolarWinds Lab) Multi-CPU Alert Magic, WPM, and a new Head Geek
(ThwackCamp 2013) Building a large-scale SolarWinds installation
(ThwackCamp 2013) Leveraging the power of custom properties

Promo Videos:

Training Programs

(SolarWinds THWACK) Deep Packet Inspection
(SolarWinds THWACK) Monitoring 101
(SolarWinds THWACK) Automation 101

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