For many organizations, the circumstances of 2020 led to a review of on-premises infrastructure and opportunities to take a leap to the cloud. These decisions are not one-size-fits-all, and there are slew of challenges to keep in mind. Tackling those migration challenges has led organizations to hybrid IT—an environment of technology infrastructure that lives partially on-premises and partially in the cloud.

Operational efficiency is crucial to the success of your company. Improving efficiency is a combined effort of measuring and refining processes, employees, technology, and financials. The goal is the continual improvement of these aspects to maintain and increase your business’s operational efficiency. Do you want to learn more about enhancing your operational efficiency? Check out StartingPoint, the platform for customer success and service management!

Although our Head Geek Leon Adato may have attempted to predict 2020 last year, no one could’ve prepared us for what was to come. Today as we work from various remote spaces including our living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, or any room where we can find a good Wi-Fi signal, it’s hard to think of what our situation will look like in 2021.

Earlier this week, we closed the acquisitions of MobileIron, a leading provider of mobile-centric unified endpoint management solutions, and Pulse Secure LLC, a leading provider of Zero Trust Secure Access and mobile security solutions. I’m personally super excited to join forces with MobileIron and Pulse Secure and combine our strengths to deliver unparalleled coverage across all device types in the Everywhere Enterprise.

Digital transformation has accelerated in 2020, and the speed in which organizations are able to leverage technology to make work better for their employees and customers has become the ultimate differentiator in business. Microsoft and ServiceNow understand this, and have expanded our partnership to deliver new native workflows in Microsoft Teams.

As a systems admin, chances are you’ve got a whole host of monitoring tools and data sources to keep track of: ServiceNow, SCOM, Splunk, Solarwinds, plus your APM and CI/CD tools too. With SquaredUp, you can get a single pane of glass, surfacing your ServiceNow ITSM data alongside data from these other techstacks too! For an introduction on how to get the full picture of your ServiceNow data, head over to Part 1 of our ServiceNow Tile blog series.

I am excited to share the news that Ivanti has closed the acquisitions of MobileIron, a leading provider of mobile-centric Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) solutions, and Pulse Secure, a leading provider of secure access and mobile security solutions.

Unique HR challenges for federal healthcare agencies As a human resources specialist, you’re being challenged like never before. In addition to meeting traditional demands such as quickly and efficiently attracting, hiring, and retaining quality employees, you’re also facing new challenges, including pressure to make your workforce more efficient, modernize employee processes, and work within ever-tightening budget parameters.

Business continuity has become a key priority for most management teams and their IT associates. Every single minute lost in downtime can result in potentially bloated overheads and reduced revenues. That said and done, no matter how well-engineered the network is, there will be some issues and problems in its due course of operations. ITIL broadly defines an incident as an unplanned incident that interrupts a service or has the potential to interrupt service if not addressed immediately.

Think about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities on something as ubiquitous as search. We all use search in our everyday lives, and our preferred search engine responds with pages and pages of highly relevant information, definitions, reviews and recommendations, history, and so much more. But this type of consumer-life use case can be miles away from how we use search in the enterprise. In that context, what may seem simple gets a lot more complicated.