Are your technicians struggling to find efficient ways to handle manual work? Or is your business at capacity and not able to keep up with the growth of your business? You’re not alone. There are many MSPs needing easier ways to manage large workloads. In today’s busy tech space, if your businesses can’t keep up with the pace, you’ll likely face big issues. Many companies are falling short at the most basic of admin tasks, like managing large volumes of Microsoft 365 licenses.

Since the start of the pandemic, our MSP and IT Pro partners have been the ones responsible for enabling the infrastructure to support the new hybrid workforce and transition the businesses around them to the cloud. As these new paradigms continue to embed themselves in our business realities, you, as MSPs and IT Pros, are perfectly placed to take control of the challenges of moving to the cloud and helping your customers and your organizations take advantage of the opportunities they bring.

When it comes to cloud adoption, the analogy I always use is that our networks used to be built like castles. We put all our servers and users inside, and we had big walls to protect everything. Today, we’ve shifted large parts of our businesses outside of these walls, and moved them to various cloud and SaaS providers. As a result, we no longer always have the knowledge or expertise to secure and protect them.

A recent Honeywell survey reinforced something many in the MSP world already knew: data centers need managed service providers. 96% of facility managers indicated remote management is important, but only 34% had remote management capabilities in place. That’s surprising in a digital world where data centers enable critical business functions and an epic business opportunity for MSPs looking to enter the data center world.

Customer data protection is important to every business that wants to protect its financial security and its reputation -- but it’s even more important for managed service providers (MSPs). When talking to your clients, you’ll probably tell them that a huge reason why protecting customer data is mission critical is because their entire business depends on it.

September included five new NinjaOne releases and hotfixes, providing a variety of new features and capabilities across scripting, documentation, ticketing, and more. Let's dive in.

Although network inventory documentation isn’t the most glamorous task, it is essential for the success of any IT department. According to Steady Networks, “Workers spend about 22 minutes each day dealing with some type of IT issue.” An accurate network inventory can greatly reduce the time it takes for internal IT to identify and solve issues.

For some N-central users, clicking on the Active Issues view and seeing the total number of issues in the bottom right hand corner can be daunting and lead you to think ‘How am I ever going to get this under control?’ In this blog, we are going to look at a few steps you can take to address some of these issues and bring that number down, so that your Active Issues view returns to a useful dynamic dashboard, with key issues that you need to address.

The way that many organizations are operating has fundamentally changed over the past few years, and IT has been forced to evolve to keep pace. The good news is many teams are seeing their budgets for new tools and services increase. The bad news is the additional tooling doesn’t appear to be making a dent in IT support workloads (at least not yet). According to Zendesk, tickets filed by corporate employees jumped 31% last year.