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Whether operations are running smoothly or you’re running into a number of hiccups, the question to IT is always the same – “What do we even pay you for?” Rather than viewing IT as a vital piece of the puzzle, organizations often view IT as a cost center, leading to warped perceptions of the importance of IT.
This article is based on a webinar conducted by NinjaOne and is intended as a companion piece to help our users follow along. You can watch the full webinar here. Onboarding new endpoints can be a particularly time-intensive task. Fortunately, the steps take to configure, secure, and setup the endpoint can often be standardized and automated to dramatically decrease the time investment required. With the right tools, you can even automate customized device setup at scale.
Success in this modern age of digital services and operations is found when businesses are able to prioritize effective digital processes. Because of this, IT teams are constantly looking for ways to improve their IT operations by making them efficient, reliable, and scalable. One way this is accomplished is through site reliability engineering (SRE). LinkedIn listed SRE as the 21st fastest growing job in the U.S. in January 2022. What is SRE, and why is it in such high demand?
Vulnerability management should be among the highest priorities of organizations, especially within their IT environments. Skybox Security reports, “vulnerabilities have more than tripled over the past ten years.” With this exponential increase, they also report that cybercrime has continuously evolved and become a more complex threat. Vulnerability management aims to assert a level of control over this ever-present issue in the IT space.
I recently delivered an N-able N-central Bootcamp called 15 things you can (and should) automate, shortly after that I also delivered another bootcamp called 15 MORE things you can (and should) automate. After doing a little prep for the second on, this reminded me of a particular automation policy we have in the Automation Cookbook that allows you to remove Bloatware from your customers’/end users’ computers.
January has always been a time when we look back at the previous year and ask ourselves ‘What could I have done differently?’. This can often then lead us on to setting some new year’s resolutions, which we hope will make the coming year much better. Sadly, for many of us these have fallen by the wayside come February.
