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Subnet Masking Cheat Sheet: A Beginner's Guide to Subnetting

Network engineers are constantly looking for ways to improve the security and efficiency of their IT networks. High latency can affect the user experience and security measures can have costly impacts on the organization. And splitting the organization’s assets into different networks instead of one single large network achieves this. It reduces network collisions and computing demands from the devices and improves efficiency and improves the user experience.

What is User Experience Research, and Why Does it Matter?

Whatever your organization does, there’s always opportunity for improvement, and sometimes the best way to find them is by checking in on the end users themselves. It’s a tricky thing to accomplish, to be sure, since there are a lot of intangible factors that play into how an employee might be feeling about their experience at any given moment.

Best Enterprise Password Managers According to IT Specialists

Even with advances in security practices and technologies, passwords continue to remain a weak point in an organization’s cyber security strategy. Strong passwords are still an essential part of security strategy for most organizations, and poor password hygiene can make their IT network vulnerable. According to the 2021 Verizon data breach investigation report, shared credentials and poor access management practices were among the top reasons for data breaches all over the globe.

How Do You Measure the Impact of Product Marketing On Customer Success?

When marketing your product, you work your way towards your end goal of customer success. This is when your customer gets what they want in the way that they wanted it. At its core, when a customer reaches customer success, that means your products have a perceived value. ‍ But how will you be able to know if your customers have found customer success? In this article, we’ll be breaking down the key metrics to track during the stages of your product marketing strategy.

Beyond Systems & Processes: ITIL Benefits to Individuals

The benefits of ITIL to a company or organization are widely discussed. This makes sense for the bigger picture, from the perspective of an organization. Smart organizations these days are adapting an ITIL framework to straighten out their IT service management and achieve business goals. However, it’s not so often you hear the question: what are the ITIL benefits to individuals?

Why IT Needs New Management Methods

Service management needs to change. The philosophies and understanding that gave way to the original concept of ITSM have been overtaken by time and perspective, rendering them outdated and leaving IT managers grasping with how to move forward. Because the various factors of work are constantly shifting (shown most clearly over the course of the last two years, but broadly true of any given period of time in tech), we need to be limber in our ways of thinking of these concepts.

VXLAN vs VLAN: a Definitive Guide

With the widespread adoption of cloud technology, data centers play a huge role in running key applications and business processes for organizations around the world. In 2022, the IT spending on data centers is expected to be $227 billion, and $237 billion by 2023. To run these datacenters profitably and deliver quality service to their customers, organizations are constantly trying to squeeze out maximum performance from the hardware.

5 Steps to Ensure Your ITSM Practice is Up to ITIL Standards

Ever since it was first introduced, ITIL has become one of the leading frameworks for IT service management. With its clearly defined processes and services as well as logical distribution of roles and responsibilities, ITIL has helped organizations streamline their IT process and deliver value to stakeholders. The framework has helped organizations in their digital transformation by bringing together the stakeholder’s vision and the IT department's implementation.

Increasing Productivity Through University Software (Leveraging Campus Management Software)

University software can help to elevate the productivity of all stakeholders. Higher education organizations are using campus management software to build a virtual environment for productivity. From team communication to student support, university management software creates a centralized virtual environment for all stakeholders at the university to thrive.

Mental Health and the Service Desk: How Leaders Can Safeguard Their Teams

The COVID-19 crisis has changed the way we live and work forever. It’s been a rough few years and one of the things that we’re still not sure of is its full impact on mental health. So many IT professionals went to extreme and heroic lengths to keep systems up and running during the pandemic.