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Best Active Directory Management Tools

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For administrators managing assets across enterprise networks, Active Directory is one of the most important tools in their toolbox. It doesn’t matter how large or small your operation is—managing assets, users, and authorizations across your network can be a headache. While Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is pretty indispensable when it comes to keeping tabs on…

8 Best Asset Management Software Tools

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Looking for effective ways to manage your organization’s IT assets? IT asset management (ITAM) software tools can help streamline inventory tracking, software licensing, and compliance management. In this article, we’ll review the eight best ITAM software tools available to improve your IT asset management practices. Asset management in IT – ITAMWhat Is ITAM?Finding the Right…

Centralized Active Directory Management and Clean-Up

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Do you regularly clean up your Active Directory® (AD)? Have you set a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly schedule, or do you wait until you receive a change request? If you neglect AD cleanup and maintenance, your environment will get cluttered and increasingly difficult to navigate. Accounts become inactive for a variety of reasons, such as…

What Is the Purpose of an SLA Management System?

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Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) are a crucial component of most modern businesses reliant on third-party vendors and software providers to power the features that make day-to-day operations possible. Without an SLA, there’s no definition of what constitutes an acceptable level of service, which puts your organization in a tenuous position. The purpose of an SLA management…

5 Best Network Traffic Monitoring Tools in 2024

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get ahead of problems, often before their impact is experienced by the end user. With a network traffic monitor, you can identify outages causing bottlenecks, reduce downtime, and increase the efficiency of troubleshooting activities. What Is Traffic Monitoring? 5 Ways to Monitor Network Traffic Functions of Network Monitoring Tools 5 Best Network Traffic Monitors The…

The Top 5 Blockers to Successfully Implementing DataOps in 2020

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DataOps is a methodology and set of practices to improve quality and speed of delivery for data and data analytics. It incorporates agile development methodologies, as well as approaches from DevOps to improve the lifecycle of data initiatives, from preparation through making it available to end users for reporting and analysis. As organizations try to adopt…

6 Best TFTP Servers

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The Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a file-transfer protocol suited to the transfer of firmware updates, the movement of system images, and similar tasks requiring functionality over form. TFTP is more lightweight than the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), with a smaller footprint. It’s also faster and easier to implement and configure, particularly when performing…

Best Software Updater

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It can be hard to keep on top of all the software on your computer, especially if every time you open a program it tells you it needs updating. Luckily, you can install a software updater to manage this process for you. The importance of software updaters is twofold: first, they make sure you’re using…

MySQL vs. MSSQL – Performance and Main Differences

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Both MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) are widely used enterprise database systems. MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS), while MSSQL is a Microsoft-developed RDBMS. Enterprises can choose between multiple MSSQL editions to suit their individual needs and budgets. Savvy programmers and database administrators (DBAs) should think carefully about the difference between…

FedRAMP vs FISMA

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Every federal agency has security compliance requirements that must be met on an annual or ongoing basis. Two of the most important requirements are FISMA (Federal Information Systems Management Act) and FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program). While these two federal requirements have a lot in common, they pertain to different types of systems….

Cloud Monitoring Basics: Page Speed, App Performance, Log Analysis

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Monitoring user-facing software has always been important, no doubt about it. But with the unrelenting migration of software to the cloud, and the adoption of microservices and serverless architectures such as Function as a Service (FaaS), monitoring is now business-critical. These new ways of building modern software involve many moving parts, and developers need to…

Service Desk and Dameware – Perfect Remote Solution?

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IT service management (ITSM) is an umbrella term encompassing the design, implementation, and ongoing support and management of an organization’s IT services. ITSM includes everything from managing devices, like end-user workstations, printers, and scanners, to password resets and troubleshooting larger issues. These capabilities are an essential part of ensuring a business remains functional and productive….

How to Boost Your APM Solution With Log Management

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While everyone knows application monitoring is an essential part of running awesome software services, understanding whether you need application performance management (APM) or log management isn’t so straightforward. Both techniques involve collecting data that describe your application’s behavior, and both help you analyze that data. Despite the similarities between APM and log management, they serve…

Top 5 WordPress Performance Plugins

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Optimizing your WordPress website for performance is one of the most important tasks you can undertake as a page owner. If your website is suffering from regular bouts of downtime, or just continuously running slowly, your users aren’t going to hang around. It’s important to implement plugins and strategies that help ensure high performance levels…

Best Joomla Plugins You Should Know

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Joomla is a powerful content management system that enables users to create stunning websites to exact specifications. The control over your site, and the customization options using a CMS like Joomla gives you, is second to none. However, alongside the flexibility Joomla offers, also comes the extensive selection of choices – plugins, tools, extensions, and…

Edge Computing Is Changing DNS

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Edge computing is the new black, and it comes in flavors. One of these flavors is the geo-proximate model, where workloads live in regional data centers, telco COs, or even in micro-data centers at the base of cell phone towers. Geo-proximate edge computing is heavily reliant on GeoDNS and other modern DNS tools.

5 Best Practices for Mobile Web Performance

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With more people than ever accessing websites via their mobiles, delivering a high performing site and top user experience for your mobile users is a must. But with best practice for mobile web performance constantly changing, it can be hard to know what strategies you should implement to ensure your site stays ahead of the…