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IT Service Management Trends to Watch Out for in 2020

ITSM is a hot topic for people who manage IT infrastructure. There are new developments coming out every few months that tend to show where the industry is headed. ‘Automation’ has been all the craze for the past few years, yet it is still quite relevant even today. Then there is ‘digital transformation’, another significant industry jargon that gets thrown around a lot. Last year was all about the release of ‘ITIL V4’ – a major step towards the future.

7 Reasons for Monitoring Network Performance | Obkio

Modern Networks are complex systems, but nowadays often the backbone of businesses. When your business' network doesn't perform to the best of its capabilities, your business may suffer as a result. How do you avoid that? Well, you continuously monitor your network network performance to ensure your business is running at its full capacity. Watch our quick video to find out 7 reasons why you should be monitoring your network performance, from our IT pros here at Obkio!

Keep your Network Secure and Running for Home Office Users

Just like many companies in these trying times, we too have asked many of our employees to work from home to protect their health. As a consequence, our network traffic characteristics have changed dramatically. In this webinar, we would like to share our experience with three of the most concerning issues we’ve come across to ensure a productive and safe workplace for home office employees. Pavel Minarik, Flowmon’s CTO will explain, and show live, how we secured sufficient VPN bandwidth, managed our uplink utilization and minimized risks introduced by personal assets.

Journey from reactive IT to full control

Without exception, the IT team at medium-sized companies acts as a firefighter. A usual scenario is a user calling in with complaints about an IT problem. With limited resources, dealing with basic requirements and routine tasks, there is no time to work on the strategic development of IT and adopt new technologies. Is there a way out of this? Join this webinar where Pavel Minarik, CTO at Flowmon Networks, will guide you on a journey from a fireman-like reactive IT department to a truly modern team with proactive control and visibility throughout their digital environment.

Kubernetes Master Class: Understanding and Implementing Service Mesh

Service mesh has developed a huge amount of excitement in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Istio is a service mesh tool built right into Rancher. Service mesh promises to add fault tolerance, canary rollouts, A/B testing, monitoring and metrics, tracing and observability, and authentication and authorization, eliminating the need for developers to instrument or write specific code to enable these capabilities. The goal is to let developers focus on their business logic and leave the rest to Kubernetes and Istio. But many users find it challenging to install, configure, monitor and manage their service mesh solution.