ManageEngine IT Matters

What Changing Times Mean for IT Admins By Vidya Vasu Just as writing has come to mean texting, blogging or any form of digital writing, the cloud today means one or all of the three Cs: computing, connectivity and communication. And just as nearly all thought to putting pen to paper has disappeared, all reference to the natural cloud is long forgotten. The three Cs have altered the way we consume services. The adage, "change is the only constant," holds true in the IT landscape like no other, forcing IT admins to constantly learn new skills and make strategic decisions. The changing times demand that IT admins become business-aware and are equipped to transcend to roles beyond enabling IT. For instance, a typical IT admin may need to play the role of a developer, a quality analyst or a data analyst, even while remaining in control of IT operations. Moreover, with 7... (more)

The Major Challenges of Enterprise Mobility | @CloudExpo #IoT #M2M #API #Cloud

Untangling the Four Major Challenges of Enterprise Mobility By Nirmit Glennon, ManageEngine "Going mobile" seems to be the mantra of modern day enterprises, with 63 percent of them firmly believing that mobility leads to competitive advantage. Their belief is not without cause, as a recent survey by Nielson reports that 93 percent of consumers who research products via mobile go on to make the purchase, while 55 percent of them make the purchase within an hour. If this wasn't reason enough for businesses to jump on the mobility bandwagon, high operational efficiency coupled with i... (more)

Network Performance Monitoring | @CloudExpo #DataCenter #SDN #DevOps

Four Ways to Boost IT Performance with Application-Aware Network Performance Monitoring By Amrutha Aprameya, Evangelist, ManageEngine In an era of unified IT, you can no longer afford to take a silo-based approach to monitoring and troubleshooting IT problems. It's time for network engineers, server admins and application engineers to expand beyond their particular domains and department-specific tools. It's time to embrace a new, integrated approach to network and application monitoring that lets you view your entire IT infrastructure from a single console and resolve issues befo... (more)

How to Combat Security Cracks Created By Collaboration | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Cybersecurity

How to Combat Security Cracks Created By Collaboration By Ram Vaidyanathan, ManageEngine Cybercrime costs the global economy as much as $450 billion each year. And, the median cost of cybercrime has increased by nearly 200% in the last five years. Meanwhile, collaboration has become the cornerstone of successful organizations. But collaboration often comes with a risk. The number of cyberattacks will grow as employees increasingly use collaboration tools to maximize their company's productivity. This is because these tools can provide new points of entry for hackers looking to ca... (more)

Security Hardening of Windows by Reducing Privileged Access

By Derek Melber, Technical Evangelist, ManageEngine As I tour the world helping Active Directory administrators, auditors and security professionals secure their Windows environment, I often get questions about privileged access. The questions usually are about how privileges are granted and how an organization can know if its privileges are correct. These are great questions considering the onset of so many attacks on Windows in the past five to seven years. It is important to see that privileged access is usually at the core of these attacks. There are many ways to grant privil... (more)