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Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and share ways to stay ahead. This week, we’re focusing on simple strategies to make software updates and patch management more efficient.

IT departments are no strangers to complexity. With businesses navigating a range of cloud services, cybersecurity tools, and automation technologies, the modern IT ecosystem can resemble a medley of vendors, software, and services sown together. While these solutions aim to improve performance, the sheer volume of suppliers can muddy the waters when it comes to efficiency and cost management.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re looking at how to keep your cool when everything lands on your desk with an ASAP tag. There’s always that day at work. Meetings stacked back-to-back, emails piling faster than you can open them, and just when you think you’ve got a handle on things, your boss drops the golden line: Can you get this done today?

In today’s mobile-first IT world, the difference between reacting late and staying ahead lies in how quickly you access critical data. For network admins who are always on their toes, waiting to open the app to check for alarms or down devices can be a bottleneck. That’s where OpManager’s latest mobile app upgrade comes in, with interactive home screen widgets designed to deliver instant visibility and control—without even launching the app.

It starts like this. You wake up groggily and stumble into the kitchen. The coffee machine is already brewing your favourite blend. But that’s not the surprise. It's the message on your phone: "Coffee beans restocked. $10 paid. Delivery by noon." You didn’t place an order. You didn't lift a finger. Your machine did it for you. Welcome to 2025, where your devices aren't just smart, they're economically independent. These are machine customers (custobots). They negotiate. They pay.

We are thrilled to share that ManageEngine has been recognized as a Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Network Management Tools. We are even more excited to be the only vendor positioned in the Customers' Choice quadrant for this category! This recognition is especially meaningful because it's completely based on reviews and feedback from our customers.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re looking at the rise of notification fatigue and how to manage alerts so they boost productivity instead of draining it. You’re in the middle of a task, fully focused, when ping!—a new email lands. You glance at it, thinking it’ll only take a second, but by the time you get back to your work, you’ve lost your momentum.

Discover how intelligent network automation is transforming IT operations by combining AI, machine learning, and policy-based orchestration to deliver agility, reliability, and security at scale.

At 2:37am on a cold Oregon night, a fire alarm blared at a rural station. Seconds later, the call came in: a structure fire on the outskirts of Rogue Valley. But what if that alarm never reached the station? This isn't a hypothetical. For the IT team at Emergency Communications of Southern Oregon (ECSO 911), it’s the kind of emergency scenario they prepare for every day.

When we think about saving the planet, we usually imagine solar panels, electric cars, or governments making sweeping climate policies. Rarely do we picture rows of blinking servers in a data center or IT admins patching endpoints. Maybe we should. In today's world, the intersection between technology and sustainability is becoming impossible to ignore, and the IT industry is right at the center of it. The truth is, IT is both part of the problem and part of the solution.