In 1996, Washington, DC and its surrounding communities were hit with a tremendous snow storm causing businesses to shut down across the entire region. Today, advances in technology allow people to work from almost anywhere, eliminating “snow day” shutdowns for most office workers. Mobility solutio…
Many years ago, when I worked as a help desk frontline analyst, I remember a small device that connected to our phone system. It displayed how many people were on hold waiting for help, in addition to how long they were waiting on hold. Sometimes, when we were busy, I noticed that some folks were on…
Is it just me, or does it feel like Patch Tuesday rolled into this week? With the quarterly release from Oracle and new security patches from Microsoft over the past 7 days, 2019 has kept the world of patching busy to say the least. A zero-day proof-of-concept has been released for an unpatched Win…
The Ivanti VHD Cache Roaming Story … With the February 2018 release of 10.1 FR4 release of Ivanti Environment Manager (covered here) came the first in-product Cache Roaming capabilities, providing customers with the ability to roam pre-defined and custom user application caches between sessions in …
Over the past year or so, the debacle which is Brexit is looming. March 2019, in theory, is when D-Day arrives and all hell will break loose according to people who want to remain, or even according to those who want to leave the EU. Amongst all this panicked noise and commotion, businesses are pre…
As we push forward in a new year with the continued improvement of IT, service management and ITSM, it should be a time of reflection and renewed focus. A focus on the core things that can truly elevate the performance of all things IT, including the critical delivery and management of services thro…
It’s a fact. As the first month, January rocks. It’s the beginning of a new year, Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday is celebrated, and its second week is Letter Writing Week (get out your stationery folks). Some other wacky, albeit celebratory “holidays” in January: Bubble Bath Day, January 8th –…
As we at Ivanti engage with more and more customers—explaining and educating them about our Unified IT story and journey—there is a common theme that appears. This theme is around automation. Automation is the fabric of digital transformation, or Unified IT. Without automation, your transformation…
Well, we're two weeks into the new year, which means we're two weeks into our New Year's resolutions. Gyms are bursting with new members, bookstores are running out of the classics, and organic broccoli is flying off the shelves at an alarming rate. In other words, it's January. We asked our Twitt…
