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Why Patch Management is Important for MSPs

Patch management has become an essential part of IT and a critical part of ensuring an enterprise’s safety and efficiency. Why are these seemingly trivial updates so important? In short, because companies without an effective patch management solution are at a massively increased risk of cyberattack. There are other reasons why patching hardware and software is important.

Grafana vs. Chronograf and InfluxDB

How can you judge Grafana vs. Chronograf and InfluxDB? Monitoring various systems is a crucial component of continuous maintenance. You can look at different parameters of the monitored system and take corresponding actions for certain conditions. For example, engineers can prevent server failure when they see the load on the server approaching its critical point. If the numbers of processed transactions (or registered users) exceed the expected level, you can celebrate your success.

ITSM Tasks Got You Down? Make Like a Dad on Christmas Eve and Throw Out the Manual.

Automation is a smart investment in efficiency, productivity, and profitability. According to VentureBeat, companies that invested in automation technologies began to see results almost immediately, including an average 7% increase in revenues. In total, U.S. companies that adopted automation in 2021 generated an extra $195 billion in revenue per month, adding 7.1 million jobs to the economy.

5 Practical Benefits to Enterprise Workflow Automation

Enterprise workflow automation can streamline processes across teams and departments in your organization, resulting in improved efficiency and cost savings. ‍ If you are feeling bogged down by tedious and repetitive tasks that distract you away from more meaningful, high-value tasks, then it is time to consider implementing an enterprise workflow automation solution.

Torq's No-Code Security Automation Solution Now Available in AWS Marketplace

Torq is proud to announce the immediate general availability of its no-code security solution in AWS Marketplace, the curated digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Eating Our Own Goat Food: Using Our Own Products

Here at Cribl, we’re big on GoatFooding. We not only prepare but consume our own products, in our own products. Today we’ll pull back the curtains to shine a light on how we use Cribl products within our Cribl.Cloud service. Cribl is a pioneer in the observability space, so what better way to use our products than by observing Cribl.Cloud?

3 ways IT can secure open source software

Critics of open source software have long argued that giving everyone access to a project’s source code creates security issues. But in active projects with highly engaged communities, the opposite is actually true: Open source software helps organizations become more secure. That said, any piece of technology can be exploited.

How the telco industry is embracing blockchain innovation

Driven by customer demand, automation has enabled great strides in enterprise networking. Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) has unlocked the ability for organisations to set up and tear down links between assets and scale bandwidth in real-time, matching the capabilities of the cloud. But in the back end, especially when it comes to settlement, many service providers still rely on manual processes, and this is where blockchain innovation offers much promise.

Solve code-level bottlenecks with Profiling for Node.js

Profiling is an important tool in every developer’s toolkit because it provides a granular view into the execution of your program from your production environment. This is an important concept, as performance bottlenecks can often be very hard or even impossible to reproduce locally due to external constraints or loads only seen in a production environment.