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Head Geek & Director of Technical Product Marketing, SolarWinds

Patrick Hubbard is a head geek and director of technical product marketing at SolarWinds, an IT management software provider based in Austin, Texas. Hubbard, who joined SolarWinds in 2007, has more than 20 years of experience in product management and strategy, technical evangelism, sales engineering, and software development, at both Fortune 500 companies and startups spanning the high-tech, transportation, financial services, and telecom industries.

Articles

Cloud Infrastructure

DevOps Barbarians at the Gate

Patrick Hubbard

September 21, 2017

Like it or not, operations teams will need to learn how to code.

Cloud Infrastructure

Logging as a Service Helps You Focus on the Big Picture

Patrick Hubbard

August 11, 2017

LaaS eases log management so IT can concentrate on building containers and microservices.

SMBs and Hybrid IT

Patrick Hubbard

May 12, 2017

A look at the pros and cons of cloud adoption for small businesses.

Why You Can't Avoid DevOps

Patrick Hubbard

November 29, 2016

IT teams at enterprises of all sizes need to embrace the DevOps movement.

A Black-Box Future For IT Admins?

Patrick Hubbard

August 25, 2016

Cloud and hyperconvergence raise the specter of self-managed IT systems.

Your Internet Really Is Down

Patrick Hubbard

June 10, 2016

While internet connectivity as a whole is resilient, the fabric that our users and applications traverse is susceptible to outages.

Nobody Wants Hybrid IT

Patrick Hubbard

March 07, 2016

Managing cloud resources together with on-premises data centers is making life hard for IT teams.

Cloud Infrastructure

Networking Challenges For 2016 And Beyond

Patrick Hubbard

December 11, 2015

Network administrators are bracing for the proliferation of IoT devices, escalating security threats, and tight budgets ahead.

Confessions Of Network Admins

Patrick Hubbard

December 02, 2015

If you could talk to your network -- and we know you do, in private -- what would you say? These networking pros bear their souls with pleas, rants,...

The Future Of Networking Is Watson

Patrick Hubbard

November 05, 2015

Forget SDN. IBM's cognitive system demonstrates the power of artificial intelligence, which will run our networks and transform IT management.

5 Ways Life Would Stink Without IT Professionals

Patrick Hubbard

September 14, 2015

What would happen if we suddenly had to live without the help of IT pros? The results could be scary.

Careers and Certifications

Why I'm Listening To John Chambers' Dire Warning

Patrick Hubbard

August 06, 2015

The final keynote by Cisco's former CEO reeked of fire and brimstone. But do regular IT pros need to worry about an impending IT apocalypse?

Network Monitoring: The DevOps Approach

Patrick Hubbard

June 02, 2015

Applying DevOps to network monitoring can provide network administrators with room to experiment and safely drive NMS improvements.

Careers and Certifications

Get Off My Lawn, Hipster Admins!

Patrick Hubbard

March 06, 2015

As an IT manager, there's a delicate balance between fostering realistic technology innovation and acting like an out-of-touch grouch.

Apple Pay: Gateway Drug To Security, Competition

Patrick Hubbard

December 04, 2014

Consumer payment choice will increase competition and the development of PoS security. Just ask those folks with the warm Starbucks cups and smiling faces.