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Major enhancements rolled out to APAC and EMEA customers in Q4 of 2022 hit the NA instance in early January, including support for Mac third party application patching and Linux OS patching. These new features represent a significant increase in NinjaOne's multi-OS patch management capabilities and allow for a truly robust patching strategy across endpoints. We also released the following updates to our CA and APAC instances. These enhancements will be released to EU and NA instances soon.

Over the past year, the job market has experienced a great amount of fluctuation, with more people joining and leaving companies than in years prior. There are a few reasons why you may be seeing a constant flow of new employees and have been on more goodbye happy hours than usual.

Over the past decades or so, social media has developed into one of the prime selling channels for business-to-business marketers. So much so that today most marketers believe social media marketing is the most effective tactic to use to improve lead generation quality, and drive net new leads.

Tolly’s 2022 Network Visibility Capabilities Report demonstrated how Auvik delivers industry-leading time to value. The report takes a deep dive into how Auvik stacks up to the competition across a variety of criteria. Which is all well and good from a purely analytical standpoint, but what does it mean for your day-to-day? After all, we’re IT pros, not accountants.

When you’re operating heads-down on your business, it can be easy to get caught up in the grind and lose sight of whether you’re focusing on the top things that truly matter. Tracking the right metrics can help keep you focused and alert you to what needs calibrating and how urgently. There’s no lack of possible metrics and KPIs (Brightgauge shares 70 here), but to help you stay focused, let’s step back and review the top 20 critical business metrics for MSPs.

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing holiday season. I can’t believe it is January and the start of another brand-new year. Best intentions are at their peak this time of the year as we want to focus on improving certain aspects of our professional and personal lives. Like many people, I set resolutions every January, but usually find by mid-February they are but a distant memory.

Whether operations are running smoothly or you’re running into a number of hiccups, the question to IT is always the same – “What do we even pay you for?” Rather than viewing IT as a vital piece of the puzzle, organizations often view IT as a cost center, leading to warped perceptions of the importance of IT.

This article is based on a webinar conducted by NinjaOne and is intended as a companion piece to help our users follow along. You can watch the full webinar here. Onboarding new endpoints can be a particularly time-intensive task. Fortunately, the steps take to configure, secure, and setup the endpoint can often be standardized and automated to dramatically decrease the time investment required. With the right tools, you can even automate customized device setup at scale.

Success in this modern age of digital services and operations is found when businesses are able to prioritize effective digital processes. Because of this, IT teams are constantly looking for ways to improve their IT operations by making them efficient, reliable, and scalable. One way this is accomplished is through site reliability engineering (SRE). LinkedIn listed SRE as the 21st fastest growing job in the U.S. in January 2022. What is SRE, and why is it in such high demand?