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Networks at Risk Due to Widespread Gaps in Basic Network Management Activities: Report

A significant portion of companies have vulnerabilities in their network management practices. These vulnerabilities include a lack of network visibility, configuration backups, proactive network planning, and up-to-date documentation. Despite these vulnerabilities, the majority of IT pros report high confidence in their networks, indicating a potential mismatch between perception and reality.

4 Predictions About What's in Store for IT in 2021

If this past year has proven anything, it’s that making long-term predictions can be a challenge. After all, who would have predicted a large portion of the workforce would be fully remote and we’d be staying six feet away from each other in grocery stores for most of the year? Even though a curveball like COVID-19 could happen at any time, it doesn’t mean we should completely stop forecasting what things will look like in IT and beyond over the coming months.

How COVID-19 Changed Our Internet Habits in 2020

First off, I’m going to make an assumption: I’m going to assume you—like me—have spent a lot more time online in 2020 than you ever have before. Thanks to COVID-19, we were all at home with nowhere to go. Many people started working full-time from home, and kids were out of school for months as springtime lockdowns extended into summer holidays.

Auvik + ConnectWise: An Integrated Approach to Greater Network Visibility & Faster MTTR

Network management shouldn’t be an unmanageable—or unprofitable—task. Discover how Auvik integrates with ConnectWise to give you true network visibility and control, from one centralized view. It’s designed to streamline your workflows and help you close tickets faster, so you can scale your operations.

What You Can Learn From the 2020 Network Vendor Diversity Report

In our third year of producing the Network Vendor Diversity Report, we’ve learned the network hardware market is becoming more crowded and fragmented as time goes on. Nearly two-thirds of all IT service providers are managing more than five network vendors per client. Cisco still maintains its reign as the most commonly deployed vendor on today’s managed networks, but its share continues to decline as vendors like Ubiquiti chip away at its lead.

A Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Power BI & Network Reports

As a network admin or a network manager, you’re likely using a ton of software and tools—from network monitoring tools like Auvik to ITSMs like ServiceNow to communications apps like Microsoft Teams. With a lot of tools comes a lot of data, which can show you how your network and your team are performing over a period of time. The challenge is putting all of those pieces together to see the bigger picture.

Auvik Road Map Webinar - Q4 2020

Since our last roadmap update in May, we’ve released syslog, integrations with multiple new apps like ServiceNow, a new and improved application classifier in TrafficInsights to better identify your traffic mix, and a whole lot more. Now, we invite you to a sneak peek into what’s ahead for the rest of 2020 and early ‘21. Auvik VP of Product Management Patrick Albert will walk you through what’s on the Auvik development calendar and what features and functionalities you can expect to see on your dashboard in the coming months.

3 Key Trends From the 2020 Network Vendor Diversity Report

In the inaugural Network Vendor Diversity report, Auvik discovered high diversity in the network devices IT teams and MSPs were managing. In 2019, the data showed complexity continuing to rise as all categories became increasingly fragmented. In the 2020 edition, we look at the same four categories of managed network devices—access points, switches, routers, and firewalls—deployed across a sample of 30,000 networks, and compared the data to both 2018 and 2019.