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That’s what they say. Bring it on. I’m ready for this. I’m prepared. But no one could prep for what happened and how things evolved, right? So is preparation not necessary after all? I’ve had numerous discussions with my colleague and fellow Head Geek Leon Adato about this topic, and we even created a video with the background theme of preparation vs. instant action. Leon is kind of a doctoral student in chaos theory—or so it seems—while I try to plan things out.

Anyone thinking about embarking on the journey to extend their IT Service Management (ITSM) with IT Asset Management (ITAM) should have a sit-down with Jenny Rock from the City of Seattle. A 27-year technology veteran who began her career in the telecommunications industry, Jenny has been with the City of Seattle for 15 years — the last four as Product Engineer in what is now known as the Collaboration and Workplace Technologies division.

In case you haven't heard the news.... Our beloved Ivanti Device and Application Control (IDAC) is no longer limited to just Microsoft Windows! With the release of IDAC 5.3 earlier this month, we have now expanded the platform support with a brand new MacOS agent. And with all the exciting features already included in the 5.3 release earlier this year (you can read more about the IDAC 5.3 release here) we have increased the functionality even more with the recently released Update 1 for IDAC 5.3.

The idea to fully manage applications, in addition to infrastructure, using a Git-based workflow, or GitOps, is gaining a lot of traction recently. We are seeing an increasing number of users connecting their Shipa account with tools such as ArgoCD and FluxCD. Based on that, we conducted multiple user interviews to understand some of the challenges teams face when implementing GitOps, especially those introduced or faced by their developers.

HAProxy is one of the world’s most innovative and highest-performing load balancing solutions. The load balancer is critical for enabling high availability and supporting the dynamic scaling of infrastructure within modern applications. Because of its importance, engineers need tools that can quickly and effectively diagnose any problems with the load balancer if they arise.

The cybersecurity state of affairs can be described as too complex today. There is an enormous number of threats endangering sensitive data for the average IT team to cope with. Threats ranging from exposure of physical assets stored in an office, to “social engineering” attacks resulting in unauthorized access, or even threats that exploit obscure software vulnerabilities.

With more than 58,000 WordPress plugins on the WordPress Plugin Directory, it can get quite overwhelming for a small business owner to choose the right WordPress plugins for your websites. Some plugins are best for creating forms, others for SEO purposes, while some are created for securing your site, and so on. This article will help you choose the 9 must-have WordPress plugins for your small business website. You can go through them and choose the best plugin according to your website needs.

Organizations thrive on organization. But as the number of projects and contributors you organize within your organization grows, it becomes more and more difficult to organize your organizational permissions. That’s why we’ve introduced a new type of organizational layer that we’ve cleverly named Organizations. Organizations allow your key contributors to manage your projects and billing, thus removing the bottleneck on the legacy project owner.

Despite the ongoing pandemic, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups, which amounted to $156.2 billion, according to a recent PitchBook report. Being an astute entrepreneur, you’ve likely thought of everything to enable your startup business to hit the ground running — branding, product logos, hiring staff, equipment purchases, and structuring your business roadmap. You are ready to take the marketplace by storm — or so you think.

Statsig is a modern experimentation platform that provides crucial insight into how new features are received by your users, so you can make informed product decisions and deploy with confidence. Statsig automatically runs A/B tests on features as they’re rolled out, and measures their impact on key business metrics, such as user growth and engagement.