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Tapirs, Trainings, and Team Dinners: My First Kentik Meetup

Gavin joined Kentik’s People Ops team less than a year ago, so when April brought his first team offsite and his first HR conference in San Diego, it was a lot of firsts at once. He writes about meeting his colleagues face to face for the first time, what he took away from HRA 26, and his new appreciation for tapirs.

The Illusion of Control: Why Dashboards Do Not Equal SLA Protection

Modern operations teams work within a constant stream of dashboards, status summaries, and health indicators that turn complex environments into organized visual displays. Large screens show color-coded service conditions. Executive reports quantify uptime. Observability platforms map system dependencies across cloud, hybrid, and distributed architectures. This visual structure creates a sense of order. In environments defined by constant change, that sense of order can feel like control.

The Invisible IT Department: How to Deliver Friction-Free Experiences with Agentic AI

Every enterprise has bought AI, but many are still waiting for their investment to pay off. Ivanti’s 2026 AI Maturity Report found that only 2% of organizations say they currently have no AI use at all. As the majority of organizations move beyond the AI experimentation stage, the real competitive differentiator is if that AI is providing continuous, business value at scale.

So you need to add microcontrollers to your fleet: now what?

Your Ubuntu Core fleet is running beautifully. OTA updates roll out in minutes. Every device is strictly confined, cryptographically attested, and carrying a 10 to 15 year long term support (LTS) commitment. The operational team sleeps soundly. Then the product roadmap meeting happens. The industrial floor needs vibration sensors on every motor. The smart building needs temperature nodes in every room. The cold chain system requires dozens of low-power Bluetooth tags. And someone just said the words.

How to Stop Cybersecurity's Biggest Blind Spots

Eliminate Blind Spots and Close Security Gaps with Autonomous Endpoint Management We dive deep into how Ivanti's Autonomous Endpoint Management (AEM) helps organizations gain complete visibility and stay ahead of evolving security threats. Learn how to: Discover Every Device: Eliminate "shadow IT" and blind spots by automatically finding every endpoint on your network. Automate Remediation: Close security gaps in real-time with AI-driven automation that patches and secures devices without manual intervention.

IT Insider: Solving AI Accountability Crisis

This episode of Ivanti's "IT Insider" series that explores the critical challenges organizations face when moving from AI experimentation to full-scale deployment. The discussion centers on three main themes: The AI Governance Gap: Guests Brooke Johnson and Sterling Parker discuss the "governance gap" where organizations deploy AI faster than they can establish policies. They highlight the risks of Shadow AI (unsupervised AI use) and the importance of having an AI Governance Council to ensure responsible use.

Chunk sidecars: Inner Loop Validation for AI Coding Agents

Your agent writes code fast, but you shouldn't have to see it until it's right. Chunk sidecars are lightweight microVMs that work inside the agent loop, requiring agents to pass pre-push validation in a CI-like environment before they declare they're "done." That means no massive CI pile-ups, no long round-trips that risk resetting your agent's context. You're sending code you already know is good.