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How to make Predictive Monitoring Valuable for your Organization

Doesn’t it sound magical to predict issues? Detecting a network outage, long before it happens. Yes! It does sound exciting. Now there are numerous network monitoring softwares out there offering this capability. To accomplish this particular goal, businesses around the world have been investing in AI powered network monitoring softwares.

Everything you need to know about ITIL4

ITIL 4 is the first significant update to the leading IT service management(ITSM) and digital service management framework since 2011. Drawing on extensive input from industry experts around the globe—including content writers, reviewers, and contributors—ITIL 4 includes practical guidance on how to tailor your IT management strategy in an increasingly complex business environment.

User Experience Tools Ready-Made for Remote Work

While none could have imagined the global impact the pandemic has had, some healthcare organizations were fortunate to have the right tools before the crisis struck. Ivanti recently hosted a webinar panel discussion with members of Houston’s Kelsey-Seybold Clinic and Houston Methodist, during which IT leaders from these hospitals discussed their rapid transition to remote work.

Now Working from Home? Smart Tips to Stay Productive

With more and more people encouraged or required to work from home these days, we reached out to some of our remote-work veterans for their insights on staying productive within their domestic domiciles. Q: What are your essential tools for communication, collaboration, and outreach (phone, email, Teams, WebEx, etc.) Brandon Black, Vice President and GM of Supply Chain: Staying connected with your team and customers alike is essential when working from home.

Best Practices in Incident Management

In an always-on world, companies look to systems and processes to keep their services up and running at all times. The most important part of maintaining this uptime is having an Incident Management process in place to restore your services in the event of an interruption or unplanned downtime. Incident Management processes are typically used by SRE, DevOps, NOC and other IT teams to respond to incidents that affect services and work on restoring their uptime.

ServiceNow is developing a self-healing IT environment

ServiceNow® is facing one of the biggest opportunities to date: developing a self-healing IT environment that makes proactive IT support a reality. Although the concept of self-healing has been around for at least a decade, the ability to achieve it has fallen short. A lack of system intelligence stopped us from predicting and preventing many issues without human intervention somewhere in the process. AI technology is changing that paradigm.

What Is Cloud Monitoring? Features, Benefits & More

93% of businesses use cloud services, and many are looking forward to investing more in it. Which means almost everyone nowadays is using cloud in some form or another. If any part of your infrastructure is in the cloud, then you must monitor it. This article will show you the features and benefits of cloud monitoring. We’ve also covered how cloud monitoring can help in the current pandemic situation.

Study: 70% of IT Professionals Cite Top Benefit of Unified IT as 'Consistent Data Across Systems and IT Departments'

Our IT surveys have become a huge hit! The press releases and blogs we put out recapping the results from our surveys are consistently picked up and republished by third parties. We're happy to be able to provide such useful insights into the IT professional's experience, benefitting not just us, but the IT industry as a whole. Before we get into the results of our most recent survey, be sure to check out some of our previous studies.