If you’re a Marvel® Comics fan, you might have heard about the superhero named Darwin. Darwin can evolve based on need and environment. For instance, he can acquire night vision for his evening’s mission or develop gills if swimming underwater. As with Darwin, adaptation is an essential skill for many IT operations superheroes out there as well, tough times or not.

Enterprises continue to invest heavily in modernizing their IT infrastructure. That leaves network administrators and NOC analysts challenged with effectively monitoring an evolving digital landscape. The goal becomes to meet the service needs of customers and ensure the underlying infrastructure is resilient.

Growth is generally considered to be a healthy characteristic of a business. But, if the firm cannot establish systems that can take care of that growth, it might end up digging a hole for its operations.

When was the last time an IT conversation reminded you of the movie “Casablanca”? That happened to me recently when I was talking with another IT professional about Ivanti Neurons. We discussed how Ivanti Neurons will make life easier for IT by delivering more self-servicing, self-healing and self-securing experiences.

Help me help myself, or I’m out – is the new mantra this ‘always on-demand’ generation is using to get things done. They want solutions, and they want solutions now. The strong presence of technology surrounds millennials and gen Z. They prefer instant workarounds and minimal human interaction. So, it is only natural to add the self-service technology that has apparent benefits for meeting millennial consumer behavior.

For IT teams it has never been an easy task to build and maintain an inventory of all the systems, software and hardware that organizations are reliant on to deliver their services and do something meaningful for the business with this information. As organizations grow they accumulate more and more asset and config data. Information inevitably ends up scattered across multiple, disconnected repositories; ITSM tools, service catalogs, software asset management systems, databases, spreadsheets etc.

It’s an honor to be recognized as a Leader in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for IT Risk Management (ITRM)! The comments from our customers are an extra tribute. According to the report: Per our understanding, the fact that we could exceed our customers’ expectations with our integrated risk portfolio and the Now Platform means we met our goal–now we must aim higher.

Data centers and cloud are undoubtedly an integral part of business continuity strategies of companies to run operations with a distributed workforce amid the lockdown successfully. The Covid-19 outbreak and the resultant work from home policies have pushed businesses across globe increase in adoption of cloud infrastructure services up by 80%. Managing the entire suite of enterprise technology is not easy for businesses that have several vendors on board.

The wait is finally over. The first episode of our weekly podcast series aimed to alleviate all your remote work hassles is out. The efficacy of remote operations depends on a robust virtual private network (VPN). VPNs help facilitate remote work by acting as a conduit between an organization’s remote workers and its private network. VPNs ensure a safe passage for the transmission of business-critical data and grants end users access to on-premises services to maintain operational continuity.

When COVID-19 hit in the spring and schools quickly transitioned to remote learning, we saw in real-time how important IT departments in education are. It was IT’s quick thinking that helped administrators, teachers, and students continue in their learning environments. Now that the ‘20-’21 school year is ramping up, it’s important that IT leaders in education continue on the path to success and plan for the expected and unexpected.