If you're managing an IT team, you may be turning to DevOps as the path to faster delivery of software. DevOps can help your team become more efficient - and your organization more competitive - but you'll need to be able to communicate to your team why things are changing and how their usual working practices are likely to alter. In this guide we tease out the whys and hows of DevOps as you work with your team and the approaches that make a DevOps initiative successful.

It's common in talks about digital transformation to make fun of waterfall as a software delivery methodology, but that's not entirely fair. Waterfall works great if your requirements are unchanged, you understand your users and, as a result, you don't need to be highly adaptable to users' changing needs.

By default, each Orchestrator Runbook Server is configured to simultaneously run a maximum of 50 runbooks. This is to control the CPU and Memory load placed on the Orchestrator Runbook Server by executing Runbooks. You can change this number by using the Runbook Server Runbook Throttling tool. In most cases, you can increase the default setting. If Orchestrator has a number of Runbooks with high CPU or Memory resource requirements, you might run fewer Runbooks simultaneously.

Monthly patch deployments of software and security updates can be a costly, time consuming, and unreliable process, leaving companies with huge security and compliance issues. Many tasks are repeated monthly and it is up to the SCCM Administrator to ensure that devices are patched correctly and working. When the Admin is looking after a large estate or multiple customers, the patching process often becomes an unwieldy full-time job fraught with failure gaps.

The technology of cloud computing has caught up with virtual desktop infrastructures. Tapping into the agility and flexibility of cloud-hosted infrastructures, Citrix Cloud enables organizations to simplify digital workspace delivery. With many of the critical components of the Citrix delivery infrastructure hosted in the cloud and managed by Citrix, organizations can speed up deployment, lower hardware footprint, increase ROI, simplify IT operations. Despite the many benefits of Citrix Cloud, the performance management challenges still persist, just as they do in traditional on-premises Citrix deployments.

It's all too common to see management software at the top of the heap for shelfware. We've been able to identify some of the leading causes that prompt companies to abandon these (often significant) software investments. Here are 5 key pointers you can use to keep your IT management software investment producing positive returns.

Maintaining efficiency in IT operations and infrastructure is a challenge for organizations of all sizes, and becomes an even greater challenge as organizations scale. In this white paper, we share lessons learned and best practices gathered over nearly 20 years of working with IT leaders from all industries. As you read further you'll discover key tactics for Increasing Enterprise IT Infrastructure and Operations Efficiency.

This white paper will assist anyone who has been tasked with taking the System Center suite of solutions and using Orchestrator Runbooks to better integrate, automate or orchestrate IT systems and processes to support business practices and ultimately achieve cost savings by driving greater efficiencies across the organisation.

With the proliferation of high-profile hacks, data breaches and ransomware, it's easy to feel insecure about your organization's security these days. But not all security issues have to do with purposeful hacks and attacks. For many IT teams, the challenge is maintaining strict rules and regulatory requirements for everything from credit card data to health information privacy. Failing to maintain compliance can put your organization at risk of everything from lost business to substantial fines - or worse.