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The AI Readiness Paradox: The Agentic Value Gap And The Agentic Operational Model

Mar 20, 2026 By Shailesh Manjrekar In Fabrix
The disconnect between enterprise confidence and AI capability is real. MIT reports fewer than 5% of enterprises have achieved measurable ROI from AI, yet Cisco claims 13% feel ready. The gap isn’t about AI technology—it’s about organizational rigidity and change management. More importantly, most studies focus on business intelligence rather than operational use cases, which are far less risky and more measurable.
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manageengine

Applications Manager now officially supports Podman monitoring!

Mar 20, 2026 By Sujitha Paduchuri In ManageEngine
As organizations shift away from traditional container engines to embrace Podman’s rootless and daemon-less design, visibility often becomes a challenge. Because Podman doesn't rely on a central background service, traditional monitoring tools can leave you in the dark. Applications Manager's new Podman monitoring feature bridges that gap, giving you total visibility into your Podman workloads without compromising the security model you worked so hard to build.
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speedscale

The Hidden AI Bill: Why Non-Prod LLM Costs Spiral

Mar 20, 2026 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
Most teams know they are spending money on AI in production. Far fewer realize how much they are spending outside production. It’s easy to get lost as you evaluate which model has the best responses, is fast enough, and cheap enough to run in production. That is because the AI bill usually shows up as a giant blob. It is easy to see the total.
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virtualmetric

VirtualMetric DataStream + Splunk: Pre-Ingest CIM Normalization Without the TA Tax

Mar 20, 2026 By VirtualMetric In VirtualMetric
Splunk is built around a deceptively simple premise: get your data in, search it, and act on it. In practice, the gap between “get your data in” and “data that actually works in Splunk ES” is where most of the engineering effort goes. CIM normalization is non-trivial. Technology Add-on development is slow. Volume-based licensing penalizes growth. And the combination means that as environments expand, Splunk becomes harder to operate efficiently.
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dotcom-monitor

API Status Monitoring: Real-Time Health & Uptime Tracking

Mar 20, 2026 By Dotcom-Monitor In Dotcom-Monitor
APIs sit at the center of modern digital infrastructure. Mobile applications, SaaS platforms, microservices, and third party integrations all depend on APIs to exchange data and execute business logic in real time. When an API becomes unavailable, slows down, or returns incorrect data, users feel it immediately. Transactions fail. Dashboards stop updating. Logins break. Revenue and trust are affected within minutes.
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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 Set Up AWS Direct Connect with Megaport

Mar 20, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
This step-by-step guide shows how easy it is to connect to AWS using Megaport. In this video, we cover: Provisioning an AWS Direct Connect Port in your chosen data center Selecting your AWS region Finding your ASN and AWS Account ID in the AWS Management Console Specifying your VLANs Attaching the virtual gateway for your VPC.
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