A Look at Today—The “New Normal”
07/07/21 We’ve reviewed the year that was, how business big and small had to fast forward their digital transformation to accommodate remote work and keep their businesses in busin…
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A Look Back at the Year That Was
06/24/21 Remember where your business was a year ago? Remember where you were a year ago? How could anyone forget? As the seriousness of the pandemic became apparent, nearly every …
The Visibility Gap: How to Avoid Blind Spots in IT Monitoring
06/23/21 IT monitoring is a requirement of the modern IT organization for ensuring the health and security of all layers in the IT stack. But, as inclusive as organizations try to …
Can They Really See That Data? Auditing Access Controls Across Environments
06/09/21 “Who has access to sensitive financial data in our organization?” Assuming you have a definition of what “sensitive financial data” means for your organization, can you ea…
Do You Know Where Your Cloud Is? Understanding Shadow IT
05/26/21 The public cloud has greatly increased the flexibility of businesses everywhere. Need another petabyte of storage? You’re but a few mouse clicks or a couple lines of code …
Not All Metrics Are Good Metrics
05/21/21 The old saying goes like this: “If you don’t measure it, you can’t fix or improve it.” This reflects the obvious notion you can’t measure what you don’t monitor. But this …
A Guide to Enterprise Cost Containment for Monitoring Pros
05/19/21 In this enterprise cost containment series, we’ve tackled a range of topics from cloud to professional services and more. Now, I want to dive into the topic you may have e…
When Competitors Close the Digital Experience Gap
05/17/21 After 2020, there are only two types of businesses: those who have retained customers or grown, and those who lost customers to more nimble competitors. There are many rea…
Too Many Alerts Can Hurt Your Business
05/16/21 As the famed psychologist Abraham Maslow once said, “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” IT monitoring and observability systems make it easy to cr…
Automation for the (Cost-Savings) Win!
05/15/21 The experienced IT professional is no stranger to the term “automation.” However, many don’t fully grasp the potential this word presents to IT processes, including the fa…
How Silos Kill TCO and ROI
05/11/21 “Silo” is a long-standing term that’s too often thrown about in IT organizations. Silos don’t happen overnight, and they’re typically caused by one person or group maintai…
Cost Challenges That Keep Execs and Admins Awake at Night
05/08/21 Reining in costs and ensuring your IT organization maximizes its technical ROI is a delicate balancing act of office politics and well-rooted processes. IT cost challenges…