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It’s 2 AM. Your phone buzzes. A critical server’s CPU is maxing out again. But this time, the issue isn’t just high usage. It’s heat. As a network admin, you’re trained to monitor traffic patterns, patch vulnerabilities, and respond to performance slowdowns. But high CPU temperature? That’s the silent system killer many still underestimate. Without a proactive plan, it can knock out performance, rack up hardware costs, and shorten the lifespan of your infrastructure.

We’re pleased to share that ManageEngine OpManager has earned recognition across three critical areas of IT operations, achieving triple crown status in IT infrastructure management. OpManager has been featured in GetApp’s Category Leaders, Software Advice’s Front Runners, and Capterra’s Shortlist, in addition to being named in the Gartner Market Guide for IT Infrastructure Monitoring (ITIM).

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Apple’s WWDC 2025 delivered a wave of exciting updates for anyone involved in managing company devices. With improvements designed to simplify provisioning, strengthen app controls, and expand what Apple Business Manager can do, these changes are all about making life easier for IT teams irrespective of the industry. In this article, we’ll break down the key announcements and explore how they could reshape the way you manage your organization’s Apple devices.

High-availability (HA) systems form the backbone of modern enterprise applications. In today's always-on world, Java applications are expected to deliver consistent performance with minimal downtime. However, achieving this critical objective is impossible without a well-defined and executed monitoring strategy. A robust Java monitoring approach is essential to ensure resilience, uptime, and peak performance.

Top Tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list practical ways to explore these trends. This week, we're going over how you can eliminate data silos in your organization to enable smoother data flows. The free flow of data is one of the clearest signs of organizational health. When data is locked away—isolated in disparate systems that don’t communicate with each other—you’re dealing with a data silo.

Across vast enterprise networks, Active Directory (AD) serves as the foundational layer for identity and access management. It's the critical service enabling user authentication, managing authorizations, and ensuring smooth operations across your network. Given its central role, any hiccup in AD can lead to widespread outages, security vulnerabilities, or frustrating user experiences.

With Cisco Prime Infrastructure approaching its EOL and EOS in September 2025, network administrators are at a crossroads. The transition away from this long-standing network configuration management tool necessitates a strategic evaluation of alternatives that align with organizational needs and budgets.

Imagine you’re running a popular online learning platform that experiences a surge in traffic during peak hours, right before exams. Students worldwide are logging in simultaneously, watching videos, submitting assignments, and taking tests. If your Oracle Cloud Load Balancer isn’t distributing traffic efficiently or back-end servers are struggling to keep up, students could face slow loading times or service outages.

Starting on Aug. 1, 2025, AWS will bill for the initialization (INIT) phase of Lambda functions, bringing a key change to how you are charged for serverless workloads. This billing update will impact functions using managed runtimes with ZIP archive packaging, which previously excluded the INIT phase from the billed duration. For teams that rely heavily on AWS Lambda, this is a small but significant change. The INIT phase, while short, could introduce costs that were previously invisible.