IT Skills Shortage: How to Do More with the Team You Already Have
The ongoing IT skills shortage is placing immense pressure on existing staff, leading to increased workloads, burnout, and stalled digital transformation initiatives. While automat…
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Bridging IT and OT in the Energy Sector: Making Substation Monitoring Actually Work
As IT and OT networks converge in the energy sector, previously isolated legacy systems are increasingly exposed to cyber threats through remote access and IIoT integration. PRTG a…
Discover More, Manage Less: PRTG 26.3.122 Introduces Auto-Discovery Tasks
PRTG version 26.3.122 introduces a centralized Auto-Discovery Task system to streamline the creation and management of discovery jobs. The update also expands monitoring capabiliti…
Hospital IT Security: Closing the Gap Between Medical Devices and Cyber Defense
Hospital networks are uniquely vulnerable to ransomware due to the complex convergence of modern IT systems and unpatchable legacy medical devices. While regulatory frameworks like…
Shadow IT Risks: Uncovering Hidden Security Gaps in Your Network
Shadow IT creates significant security gaps and compliance risks by introducing unauthorized software, hardware, and "Shadow AI" into a company's network. To mitigate these growing…
NIS2 Compliance in Practice: The Role of Infrastructure Monitoring
The NIS2 directive mandates that a wide range of EU organizations implement active cybersecurity risk management, moving beyond mere documentation toward proven operational resilie…
Cloud Cost Optimization: Why IT Admins Can't Fix What They Can't See
Despite cloud cost optimization being a top priority, significant waste persists because organizations often lack visibility that connects actual spending to resource utilization. …
Alert Fatigue in IT: Why Your Team Stops Listening (And How to Fix It)
Alert fatigue occurs when overwhelming notification volumes cause IT teams to tune out critical alerts, leading to increased security risks and employee burnout. This issue can be …
AI Infrastructure Monitoring: Why Your AI Stack Is Only as Strong as What Runs Underneath
Traditional monitoring methods are inadequate for the unpredictable, bursty nature of AI workloads, which can cause sudden and extreme strain on GPUs, networks, and storage. To ens…
The Right Support at the Right Time: Introducing PRTG Premium Support
Paessler has introduced a new three-tier PRTG support model—comprising Essential, Advanced, and Enterprise levels—tailored to meet the specific needs of varying monitoring environm…
Three new sensors, smarter monitoring: PRTG 26.2.120 is here
PRTG version 26.2.120 introduces three new sensors—SNMP Custom String v2, SNMP Printer v2, and a rewritten SNMP RMON v2—alongside "MAX," an AI-powered chatbot for troubleshooting w…
6 DevOps Automation and Integration Best Practices
This article argues that DevOps automation is only effective when paired with robust monitoring to ensure visibility across the entire software development lifecycle. It outlines k…