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Project Management Workflow - Why Does It Matter?

Do your projects often lack a sense of general direction? Are you regularly confused about what you should be doing next? To be productive and efficient, you should implement a project management workflow into your operation. This can help to bring order to chaotic situations and enhance your team’s productivity across the board. A project management workflow is a crucial component of any effective operation.

Migrating Between Monitoring Systems

This question comes up all the time: How do you migrate between monitoring systems? The answer is both simple and complicated. In order to understand this better, rather than just rely on my own knowledge, I reached out to a number of people to see how they accomplished this. I’m going to summarize their process for you here in order to help others who may find themselves in need of this information.

Hardening N-able RMM

When security is done well it’s not always convenient. Advanced security can sometimes even mean minor inconveniences to MSPs and their employees. But the rise in ransomware attacks requires improved security measures and harder environments, making small inconveniences worth it in the long run. In this blog I’ll look at some options for how you can harden your N-able™ RMM dashboard.

Can MS Teams be Connected to xMatters to Post Messages? - Ask Adam

Using MS Teams Connectors to post messages from xMatters is a simple way to keep people updated about what's going on in your process. You can configure the Connectors in Teams yourself without the help of your Teams admin when you know where to look! When I setup the Connector I used this image to represent xMatters. I'd love to hear any ideas you have for more videos, what you're working on, or anything you've done but would've really liked to have some help with in the comments below!

How is Cloud Adoption Changing Public School Education?

As the past year has shown, cloud computing has proved a vital service for K–12 public schools. It’s enabled online learning during a time of critical need, and the schools who have embraced cloud adoption have thrived and will continue to do so. Let’s look at the ways the cloud is changing public school education today—and some of the common bumps administrators and IT teams should avoid along the way.

The Reviews Are In-SolarWinds AppOptics Is Top Rated From TrustRadius

SolarWinds® AppOptics™ has officially been announced as a 2021 Top Rated award winner from the customer review site TrustRadius. As one of only three products to win this award in the application performance management (APM) space, our team behind AppOptics would like to thank the customers who helped make this happen. Because unlike other awards, Top Rated is determined by the verified reviews of our users and their experiences with AppOptics.

Cloud Cost Management Tools Have A Bad Rap: Here's How We're Different

As a cloud cost intelligence platform, we spend nearly every day talking to companies about their cloud cost — and there’s something we’ve noticed — people don’t generally have the warm and fuzzies for their cloud cost management tools. You know, the ones that have been around for a while, that you use to build reports about your cloud spend? We won’t refer to them by name. These popular tools have really given the whole category a bit of a bad rap.