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Microsoft Sentinel Pricing in 2026: Full Cost Breakdown (and How to Cut It)

Jul 31, 2026 By VirtualMetric In VirtualMetric
Microsoft Sentinel’s cost is driven almost entirely by one variable: how much data you send it. That is also why so many teams underestimate their bill. A few noisy log sources or one new integration can push daily ingestion up for weeks before anyone notices. And the first signal is usually the invoice. This guide breaks down every component of a 2026 Sentinel bill.
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How to Enhance Your IT Asset Management Strategy With AI

Jul 31, 2026 By InvGate In InvGate
--- Most IT teams have more asset data than they know what to do with: devices, software, contracts, lifecycles, dependencies. The problem was never visibility. It's knowing what to act on. In this video, Matt Beran walks through four AI features inside InvGate Asset Management that are live right now and change how IT teams work with their IT inventory. You'll see how to: Together, these features turn Asset Lifecycle Management and hardware refresh planning from manual lookups into something the system surfaces on its own.
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Palo Alto Networks Plans to Acquire Embrace: Why Digital Experience Is Becoming a Strategic Priority

Jul 31, 2026 By Teneo In Teneo
When Palo Alto Networks announced its intention to acquire Embrace, my first thought wasn’t about Embrace itself. My first thought was that digital experience, including Digital Employee Experience (DEX), has officially become strategic. For years, DEX has often been viewed as something that sat on the edge of infrastructure monitoring, endpoint management, and service desk operations. Important? Absolutely. Strategic? Not always. This acquisition changes that conversation.
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Custom Fields That Actually Fit Your Workflow

Jul 31, 2026 By NinjaOne In NinjaOne
When a fixed data model doesn't fit your environment, you either work around it or go without. NinjaOne custom fields let you define exactly what data gets tracked — and control who can see, edit, or act on it. In this session, you'll learn how to: Set global defaults that apply consistently across devices and automations Configure role-based access so the right people interact with the right fields Use new permissions to lock down core asset fields Whether you're standardizing data collection across clients or tightening up access controls, custom fields are where NinjaOne starts to fit your workflow instead of the other way around.
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motadata

What Is Attack Surface Management and How Does Patching Reduce It?

Jul 31, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Your exposure list grows faster than your team can clear it. Security adds new findings every week, and your IT team gets to a fraction of them. Everything left over is a backlog an attacker can walk straight through, and buying another scanner will not shrink it. Most attack surface management programs live inside that gap. Finding exposures got easy. Closing them did not, and a queue nobody has time to work is where the risk quietly builds.
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How SD-WAN Works and What to Monitor at Every Branch

Jul 31, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
Why does one branch report unusable voice and video every afternoon while the WAN dashboard at head office shows every site green? Most network teams have fielded that escalation. The device responds, the tunnel status reads up, and application performance is still unacceptable. SD-WAN was built for the distance between a connection that responds and an application that performs.
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Unified Endpoint Management: Capabilities, Rollout, and Metrics

Jul 31, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
How much of your device inventory could you verify today without opening more than one console? Most IT teams can report what they purchased. Far fewer can say which of those machines are patched, encrypted, running approved software, and still checking in, because that answer spans several systems. Unified endpoint management consolidates those systems into one. Most IT teams inherit that split one platform at a time.
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