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January 2023

Five worthy reads: The future of work, metaverse style

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we have discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore the impending impact of the metaverse on the future (or now) of work and productivity. Illustration by Akshaya Maheswaran Imagine a world where you can work from anywhere, collaborate with colleagues from around the globe, and attend meetings in virtual reality (VR) conference rooms.

Applications Manager once again helps customers go beyond their limits

Reading case studies can be a tedious task for someone who needs to single-handedly manage the entire IT infrastructure of their firm. But hey, why not spend a minute or two if it can provide you some golden tips on how to save time while monitoring your complex IT infrastructures? Here are the stories of two firms that achieved improved performance after switching to Applications Manager. Dig in to learn how they made the best use of our product and achieved a better version of themselves.

How a corrupted file took down 12,000 flights across the US: Real-world consequences of minor IT negligence

The airport is shutdown in the midst of a busy time, masses of people are stranded, pilots wait in the cockpit awaiting ground information, there’s confusion and panic among the crew. This could easily be a scene from Die Hard 2 where the villains take over an airport and seize control of all electrical equipment. But, hate to break it to you, this actually happened. Is it possible for one person to disrupt the entire nation’s aviation system? Apparently, yes.

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Uptime monitoring: How to track your network availability, 24/7

When it come to measuring an organization's ability to support end users and provide services, network uptime can be a great yardstick. An inability to ensure optimum uptime can negatively impact your business delivery, resulting in financial and reputational losses. If you're doing it manually, ensuring 24/7 network uptime is a challenging exercise requiring considerable resources. It is way more convenient to have a monitoring mechanism in place that can monitor network uptime and notify the network admin proactively about any bottlenecks that might lead to network downtime.

Cloud Cost Optimization: 5 best practices for reducing your cloud bills

Before we jump into cloud cost optimization, let us address the elephant in the room. Businesses are moving to the cloud but are struggling with unpredictable cloud bills. If you are a business owner who has moved to the cloud recently, you need to understand each cloud touchpoint and get a transparent view of your cloud services. When it comes to cloud cost optimization, there are many tools and techniques that organizations can adopt. Most of these can only take you so far.

Want to keep your employees satisfied? UEM shows you the way

If we look at the last decade, organizations are increasingly championing the movement of employee satisfaction. Customer satisfaction, of course, is one of the quintessential factors for any enterprise to be successful. However, in recent times, enterprises have realized that employee satisfaction is an enabler of customer satisfaction and business success. With the onset of hybrid work models, UEM solutions are more centred towards employee enablement.

A workforce strategy for an era of uncertainty

In this episode of the ManageEngine Insights podcast, Insights Editor Brent Dorshkind and Michael Barata, a master trainer at CultureRx, discuss the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE). As a workforce strategy, ROWE prioritizes autonomy, accountability, and clarity, making it particularly well-suited to the relentless democratization of IT and decentralization of work that’s taking place in organizations today. Likewise, ROWE offers a clear way forward in an era of economic, political, cultural, and general uncertainty.

Audit day based logon errors: ADAudit Plus User Logon report

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is a real-time change auditing and reporting software that fortifies your Active Directory (AD) security infrastructure. With over 250 built-in reports, it provides you with granular insights into what’s happening within your AD, such as all changes made to objects and their attributes. This can include changes to users, computers, groups, network shares, and more.

What is incident management? Maximize uptime and minimize disruptions with ServiceDesk Plus

Incident management is the process of restoring IT services to normalcy as quickly as possible. You can check out our comprehensive guide on incident management to learn more about how you can implement incident management best practices in your organization..

Educational institutions: To patch or not to patch?

The second decade of the 21st century witnessed an unprecedented paradigm shift in the educational sphere. With the onset of the pandemic, conventional ideas of an educational institution gave way to a far modernized and on-the-go approach. Joining class and listening to teachers’ lectures on Zoom or through Microsoft Teams is now the new norm.

ManageEngine named a 2022 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability

We are thrilled to announce that ManageEngine has been recognized as a Customers’ Choice in the 2022 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Application Performance Monitoring and Observability report for the fourth time in a row. “We believe this recognition is a testament to our customer-first mentality. For us, appreciation from our customers is one of the greatest compliments we can receive.

Top 5 challenges in Hyper-V performance monitoring that you need to know

Network management strategy never goes without virtualization being an integral part of it, as virtualization is the key to improving network efficiency and resource availability. Virtualization also comes with ample benefits, such as minimized downtime, reduced functional costs, and improved productivity.