Moving to the cloud is one of the most critical trends in digital transformation. Gartner even predicts that by 2022, 90% of companies will be using cloud services. As cloud…
7 Ways Cloud-Based ITSM Solutions Can Make IT Support a Breeze
What Is an IT Service Desk?
Let’s say you’re shopping in a retail store. You have everything on your shopping list except for one item. You’ve browsed through each of the aisles (twice), and you still…
Monitoring 101: The Fundamental Concepts of System Monitoring
The answer to troubleshooting network challenges lies in effectively monitoring your environment. But saying “let’s monitor our network” presumes you know what you should be looking for, how to find…
Determining the Most Important Application Availability and Performance Signals
There’s a time-tested saying in IT: zero sensors, zero incidents. What goes unmeasured goes unmaintained, unmanaged, and ultimately unprotected. But measurement is no simple thing. What IT teams measure depends…
Level Up Your IT Asset Management Strategy
Whether you’re supporting remote teams or working in a hybrid environment, IT asset management (ITAM) is a critical practice to the business and your service management strategy. If you’ve been…
What Is IT Asset Management?
Depending on the business, there’s a myriad of IT assets to keep track of and doing it manually can be taxing. An IT asset management system allows IT pros to…
Five Steps to Developing an Application Modernization Strategy
Supporting legacy applications is problematic for several reasons. These aging systems are becoming increasingly obsolete and difficult to maintain. They use outdated software languages and unsupported hardware parts—some as much…
Why People, Processes, and Technology Cannot Change in Isolation
Since 2004, October has been designated by the National Cybersecurity Alliance as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM). Immediately, the mind wanders to supercomputers creating unbreakable algorithms against adversaries with unlimited compute power. This virtual landscape is happening today, and the arms race on both sides is something we’ll have to grapple with for the foreseeable future. Before I get too cute with this article, do understand it’s important for the good guys to forever try to create technologies and friction ahead of the bad guys.
5 Service Desk Tickets Sure to Keep You Awake at Night
It’s the witching hour and the night is cold. Something feels eerie—it seems calm, but you’re not sold. You turn your computer on and to your despair, Through the garishness…
The Perfect World (Without Outages)
Heaven on Earth would be a world with no outages. No slow load times. No failed switches or routers. No bandwidth issues. Just peace and quiet. But if nothing were…