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Patch management is one of the most important tasks an IT team undertakes. Businesses spend significant resources on keeping their infrastructure up-to-date, yet more than half of breaches could have been prevented by installing available software and OS patches. We worked with Ninja partners to understand how they use NinjaOne's patch management capabilities and combined their expertise with our own. In this guide we share those insights so new partners can get the most out of patch management.

Whether you are downsizing your infrastructure within a single room or eliminating half of your data center sites, a data center consolidation is a complex, risk-prone project. Fortunately, you can mitigate many of the mistakes and unwelcome surprises that even the most experienced data center professionals find derailing their consolidation.

The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a "new normal," and data center professionals must adapt to keep up with the issues of today while maintaining uptime and business continuity. New challenges include an increased demand on infrastructure with a higher potential for outages, more time pressure on projects, and less staff onsite resulting in a more difficult environment for collaboration, planning new infrastructure and services, and performing changes and maintenance. Data center managers must develop a comprehensive remote data center management strategy to find success.

The Handbook for Kubernetes Errors is an essential guide to understanding and resolving all of the most common Kubernetes issues, including: and many more.

Observability allows you to understand the behavior of applications and infrastructure from the data they produce.

Using Splunk for long-term storage can drive up costs and slow down searches, especially as data volumes increase and teams expand their use cases.

Learn how to avoid being Stung by the Three Bs through advanced monitoring solutions that secure transaction paths, complete with proper AA credentials.