What’s the Average IT Service Desk to Employee Ratio?
05/30/18 It's common to hear that the IT service desk staff has become so swamped with work that they feel like full-time IT "firefighters," working long hours and straining to kee…
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Walking Through the Network Insight Journey
05/29/18 Visualization of technologies was always in the imagination or drawn out by hand until we were able to incorporate tools like Visio® to help with mapping. At that point, w…
Change Management: “Are We Doing It Right?”
05/24/18 Definitions, titles, and flowcharts about change management can be overwhelming. Instead of starting there, I would like help you identify some signs that your process mig…
New Stats Exposed in Go’s database/SQL Package
05/22/18 If you keep up with the Go development cycle, then you’ll know Go recently entered its feature-freeze for the Go 1.11 release. One of the changes for this upcoming release…
Five Samanage Customers on the Benefits of the Service Catalog
05/22/18 One thing we find is that many new customers are surprised by how many parts of multi-step services they can automate through the service catalog. They might not have chos…
I Beat Them to Firing Me! Part Two: Fight Back
05/17/18 How to use network configuration, change, and compliance management (NCCCM) and other monitoring software in response to an actual security breach. If you have not read pa…
I Beat Them to Firing Me: A Story of Corporate Sabotage
05/17/18 Why network configuration, change, and compliance management (NCCCM) is a must Inspired by former Citibank employee sentencing We’ve all heard horror stories about the dis…
How This Organization Built an Employee Service Machine
05/17/18 Gardner knew that IT could set up similar processes through Samanage, and to his credit, he also recognized that the entire organization could run services through one fam…
Cloud Native Operational Solutions – Patch Management
05/17/18 Patch management at any sort of scale has always been a mundane and time-consuming task that most administrators would like to avoid at all costs. With the proliferation o…
Cloud Native Operational Solutions – Backup Management
05/17/18 Public cloud providers have greatly simplified the process of creating a backup, but the challenge has always been managing that at scale with things like policies for ret…
Cloud Native Operational Solutions – Configuration Management
05/17/18 One of the biggest draws of the public cloud includes services like managed Kubernetes or server-less functions. Managed services like these enable IT organizations to con…
4 Causes of IT Help Desk Breakdowns & Issues
05/15/18 Because there’s now such a heavy reliance on devices, applications, and other common business technology, the IT help desk bears a heavy burden in everyday business functi…