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What is an Endpoint Device? Overview for IT Professionals

Endpoints can be found in a variety of industries and settings, but we’ll be focusing on endpoint devices within IT environments. In this article, we provide a general overview about what endpoint devices are, the purpose they serve, as well as how you can better manage and protect these devices within your organization.

Server Backup: 5 Best Practices

There are plenty of disturbing data backup statistics everywhere you look. For instance, “60% of backups are incomplete and 50% of restores fail,” Ontech systems confirms. According to Invenio IT, “ 72% of all users had to recover from a data backup at least once in the past year, and 33% had to do so more than once.” All these statistics make one fact crystal clear: data backup software is essential for every organization.

5 Easy Automation Opportunities to Simplify Your IT Processes

Ask Maria von Trapp from the Sound of Music what her favourite things are, and she’ll quickly rattle off a list including, raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens and even brown paper packages tied up with strings. But over the years if you’ve ever asked me what my favourite things are (to Automate), I’ve often struggled to give an answer. The problem is, there is so much to choose from and where do you begin?

N-sight PME Update-Exploring Granular Patch & Best Practices

The Patch Management Engine (PME) in N-able N-sight RMM has been updated! I cannot stress how excited I am for granular patching. With the ever-changing security landscape in today’s world, we need more control over patching than ever. In this blog, I will quickly review the PME updates and give some quick-hit best practices that have served me well in the real world.

How to Check & Monitor Disk Space Remotely with PowerShell Script

Monitoring disk space is a basic but core component of proactive IT support, critical to reducing ticket volume and maintaining system health and stability. Running low on or running out of disk space can obviously be responsible for a host of issues and user complaints — from application failures to complete system crashes — so creating alerts for when drives fall below a specified threshold is a great way to head those off.

What Do Our Users Love About Cove Data Protection?

At N-able’s recent Empower partner event in Prague, we took the opportunity to ask some Cove Data Protection users what they actually think about the product. Naturally, we were pleased to hear so many positive comments, but we also found that their reasons for choosing Cove varied, as did the capabilities they value most. Here’s a little sample.