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Accelerating MTTR with New VDI Experience Enhancements

For IT teams supporting VDI environments, the hardest part of a support ticket is rarely the fix itself – it's figuring out where the problem actually lives. And in most cases, first-level support engineers don’t have access to both the present and historic VDI-specific insights needed to triage the problem, so these VDI tickets are quickly escalated to the VDI team.

What's New in Nexthink: Helping IT Drive Better Business Outcomes

New Nexthink Infinity innovations empower IT to govern AI, automate remediation, and troubleshoot digital workplace issues faster, enabling faster action, smoother experiences, and stronger business outcomes. The future of IT requires more than actioning tickets. Modern IT teams are expected to safely enable AI, modernize infrastructure, improve employee productivity, and drive business outcomes in increasingly complex environments.

10 Best Network Performance Monitoring Software for 2026

Almost every network monitoring tool on the market promises the same few things, which is full visibility, faster root cause, and fewer pointless alerts. Spend enough time looking into them and the websites all start to sound the same, and most of them read better on the page than they hold up on the day the network actually slows down.

Apple WWDC 2026 Announcements: How Ivanti Supports OS 27

Apple Declarative Device Management (DDM) is now the standard for device management across Apple platforms. As part of this transition, Apple is retiring legacy software update controls in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, tvOS 27 and later releases. This is just one of several platform changes arriving this fall that could impact how your team manages and secures Apple devices. The good news?

How to Choose the Right ITSM Solution for Your Business

How do you tell which ITSM solution will actually fit your team when every vendor promises the same faster resolutions and lower costs? The tools look alike in a demo. The differences surface later, once your team has spent a few weeks actually using the tool. So much of it comes down to fit. A tool that suits your team's size, works the way you already do, and stays within budget will serve you far longer than a flashier one that doesn't.

Best IT Ticketing Systems for 2026

An IT ticket rarely arrives as a ticket. Instead, it arrives as a Teams DM to whichever technician replied fastest last time, and the request dies with that person's inbox. When a 200-plus-comment r/sysadmin thread on favorite ticketing tools outranks almost every vendor page on Google, that tells you how many teams are still hunting for a system their users will actually use. We compared the 9 best IT ticketing systems for 2026, aimed at IT teams handling internal tickets, not customer support desks.

How to set up solutions management for your team and clients | ManageEngine MSP central tutorial

IT problems repeat themselves. Every time a technician solves the same issue from scratch, your MSP loses time—and your clients wait longer than they should. In this tutorial, we walk through Solutions Management in MSP Central: how to document fixes, use Zia AI to generate solution articles, set review dates, and publish content directly to the Self-Service Portal—so both your technicians and your clients can resolve issues faster, without starting from zero every time.

Smart City Monitoring: How Network Visibility Keeps Cities Online

What happens when a city's traffic signals freeze at rush hour and nobody in the operations center knows why? For the teams running a connected city, that gap between a failure and its first clue is the worst place to be. Smart city monitoring closes that gap. It gives operators a live view of every network, device, and service the city runs. A fault gets caught and traced before citizens ever feel it. Without that visibility, small problems stay hidden until they spread.

What Is Observability 2.0? Meaning, Key Features, and How to Adopt It

How many tools does your team need to answer one question about production? For most enterprise IT teams the honest count is four: a metrics dashboard, a log analyzer, a tracing tool, and the spreadsheet where someone stitches the other three together during an incident. Each of those tools stores its own copy of the truth and sends its own bill.

How to Use Your Knowledge Base to Increase AI Chatbot Deflection

Ticket deflection is the metric IT leaders point to when they talk about AI chatbot ROI, and the knowledge base is the part of the equation that determines whether that number moves. A chatbot can run natural language processing well and still deflect almost nothing if the content behind it is thin, outdated, or scattered across articles that don't match how people actually ask questions.