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Breaking the Mold: Marc Umstead's Journey from Solopreneur to Strategic Leader

Mar 20, 2026 By N-able In N-able
From Break/Fix to Workflow-First MSP: Mark’s Plus One Growth Story Mark joins host Chris Massey on Now That’s IT: Stories of MSP Success to share how his focus on solving workflow problems—starting at age 15 digitizing his dad’s paper-based processes—shaped his career and the growth of Plus One. He describes taking a $10,000 loan at 23 to buy a small computer repair shop, navigating early solo “survival mode,” and evolving from break/fix into an MSP with recurring revenue.
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How to Perform a Network Health Check: Step-by-Step Guide

Mar 19, 2026 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio
Your apps are slow. Users are complaining. You're staring at a dashboard trying to figure out what broke and when. Sound familiar? This is the reality of reactive network monitoring. By the time someone opens a ticket, the issue has already been affecting performance for minutes, sometimes hours. A network health check flips that script. Instead of chasing problems after the fact, you're catching them before users ever notice.
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What to Expect When Attending Your First Network Operator Group (NOG)

Mar 19, 2026 By Rob Parker In Megaport
Your first NOG meeting doesn't have to be daunting. Here's what to expect, how to prepare, and how to make the most of every session and conversation. Co-authored by Rob Parker and Gavin Tweedie If you’re trying to optimize your organization’s peering and Internet Exchange (IX) traffic engineering as your network grows, you may be searching for more ways to improve your network or customer experience.
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auvik

Cloud Migration Statistics for 2026

Mar 18, 2026 By Dana Krook In Auvik
Cloud adoption has officially crossed a tipping point. In 2026, the conversation is shifting from whether companies are moving to the cloud to how complicated things are getting once they’ve moved. Hybrid architectures, multi-cloud strategies, AI workloads, and rising security pressure are turning “the cloud” into a web of interconnected environments. For IT and network teams, that creates huge opportunity—and plenty of room for chaos if visibility doesn’t keep pace.
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Network Documentation: Excel vs. DCIM Software

Mar 18, 2026 By Sunbird In Sunbird
Spreadsheets and Visio diagrams may work in small, static environments, but they cannot maintain accurate, real-time records at the port level, track relationships between assets, or support the pace of change in modern operations. DCIM software is purpose-built for those demands. In this blog post, we'll cover what network documentation actually requires, where Excel and Visio fall short, and how DCIM software addresses those gaps.
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The World's Best Infrastructure Teams Trust Kentik

Mar 18, 2026 By Kentik In Kentik
Why do network and infrastructure teams at leading enterprises including Canva, Dropbox, Google ConocoPhillips, and ServiceNow choose Kentik? In their own words, customers describe epic cost savings, dramatic return on investment, and blockbuster efficiency improvements that only Kentik can deliver. Learn why Kentik is the must-see network intelligence solution any enterprise that depends on reliable connectivity.
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