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Technological breakthroughs are disrupting the basic norms of Information Technology (IT), and businesses should keep in line with emerging innovations and trends to add value to their services and products. IT service management (ITSM) has become the typical paradigm for resource management of IT products. It has become imperative for businesses to embrace ITSM since it automates IT processes, enhances job satisfaction, and resolves issues.

Network monitoring is a vital part of your security architecture and layered security portfolio. Step one in your network monitoring safety checklist is making sure you have network monitoring in the first place. The rest of our steps assume you have network monitoring and lay out five ways to optimize its value.

Roughly 47.4 million people quit their jobs and left the workforce last year in search of better ones, leading to what we now call the Great Resignation. Then, as the economy re-opened and companies intensified hiring efforts, millions of people switched careers, searching for better working conditions and higher salaries. Experts say the trend will continue as the Gen Z population reshapes the labor market.

How do you begin working with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)? If you have read the previous parts of this blog series, you will know that Active Directory (AD) is a vast subject. In this series, we have chosen topics to help familiarize you with theoretical AD concepts and equip you to work with AD. This blog offers practical AD exercises to help you get started. Understanding the life cycle of all AD objects, from creation and modification to deletion, is necessary.

If you’re new to the world of containers there are two words you would have certainly come across, but might not yet understand the difference between: Kubernetes and Docker. Although Kubernetes and Docker are somewhat different from each other, they also share some similarities. A container is a standard unit of software that packages the code along with the libraries and dependencies so that the application can run quickly, seamlessly and reliably from one environment to another.

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (codename: Jammy Jellyfish) is jam-packed (hey hey!) with new features for everyone’s favourite credit-card sized computer. We’ve put together some of the Raspberry Pi highlights below, but for a full overview of Jammy Jellyfish check out the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS press release and release notes.

We have just released Workspace Control 2022.2 (10.9.0.0), which contains one major new feature, several compatibility updates and bug fixes. We’ve also included several workflow improvements based on ideas submitted via the Ivanti Community.

To be clear, SMB V1 has been deprecated, unsecure, and not recommended for a long time. But Microsoft is now taking the next step towards removing it from Windows entirely. In recent years, Microsoft had stopped installing SMB1 server on all Windows versions by default; however, they have kept installing the SMB1 client in Home and Pro versions of Windows. This was meant to allow end users to connect to various devices, including NAS, which only supported SMB1.

Elasticsearch has long been the prominent solution for log management and analytics. Cloud-native and microservices architectures, together with the surge in workload volumes and diversity, have surfaced some challenges for web-scale enterprises such as Slack and Twitter. My podcast guest Suman Karumuri, a Sr. Staff software engineer at Slack, has made a career on solving this problem. In my chat with Suman, he discusses for the first time in a public space a new project from his team at Slack: KalDB.