Joel Dolisy is a Senior Vice President and CTO/CIO at SolarWinds, an IT management software provider based in Austin, Texas. With more than 20 years of experience and a proven track record of driving development organizations to support growth of software companies, Joel leads the SolarWinds engineering group where he brings his deep and broad experience in setting technology and technical strategies for both products and platform infrastructure projects. Joel is also a key partner in defining the product strategy for the company both from an organic development and an M&A standpoint and is responsible for the strategy and delivery of the internal business and online systems that SolarWinds relies on for its daily operation. Joel has worked for various IT management software companies in the US for the past 16 years, including NetIQ. Before calling the US home, Joel worked several years for companies like Philips electronics in Belgium working on multimedia platforms.
Despite its ever-growing presence in federal agencies, shadow IT remains as difficult to define as it is to detect. Shadow IT generally refers to the trend of users adopting IT tools and
