Coronavirus (COVID-19) is greatly impacting the lives of organizations, employees and stakeholders. With the outbreak’s rising impact, more employees are migrating to remote, work-from-home practices as means of achieving “social distancing.” However, inevitable challenges are emerging with remote workdays. Obstacles include, but aren’t limited to, employee isolation, diminished productivity and poor team communication or collaboration. … Continued
In today’s chaotic digital sphere, networks are distributed across an increasingly wide range of hackable endpoints. From smartphones and tablets to Internet of Things (IoT) devices—everything gets connected to the network. EDR technologies and practices were created for the purpose of providing active endpoint protection and defense. However, if your systems and admins are overloaded … Continued
Information technology (IT) never slows to a standstill. Technological change disrupts current processes or operations, requiring organizations to make alterations to IT spending. Deviating from legacy technology to 21st century advancements isn’t an option, it’s a requirement! Through automation and powerful integrations, organizations can breathe freely. Current State of IT: Eye-Opening Statistics Per Opsview, organizations … Continued
OnPage’s incident alert management platform continues to evolve, providing unique and powerful capabilities to business clients. Latest advancements include live call routing reporting and a sophisticated dashboard for enterprise users. The capabilities enhance team transparency and performance, improving incident management and collaboration in the process. In this blog post, I’ll discuss the benefits of the … Continued
Exceptional customer service is key in the world of IT, where something could go wrong at any given moment. This level of support equates to business retention, client satisfaction and high success rates and profits. In this post, I’ll introduce a hypothetical scenario, where “MSP Team A” provides 24×7 after-hours support to a valuable client. Scenario: … Continued
According to a study from the University of Maryland, a hacking attack occurs every 39 seconds. During a quick coffee break, your systems could be attacked up to a dozen times. Depending on how your alerts are set up, you might miss a dozen or more notifications. Missed or delayed alerts, and the resulting slow … Continued
OnPage welcomes the new year with open arms. Though the team is excited for the new decade, we’d like to look back at our organizational growth and success in 2019. The previous year consisted of several Gartner mentions and the release of innovative, new OnPage capabilities. This post discusses and provides detail into these notable … Continued
New Year’s Eve marks the transition into a new decade, beginning with personal resolutions and expectations for 2020. Much is the same in the IT industry, as support teams expect to adopt trending technologies to reduce their mean time to repair (MTTR) and improve incident resolution. This post will provide an in-depth look into five … Continued
Information technology service management (ITSM) tools streamline and regulate how IT services are delivered. ITSM tools include help-desk (e.g., ConnectWise Manage and ServiceNow) and monitoring software, providing smart ticketing capabilities and live system statuses, respectively. Unfortunately, Gartner Research reports that organizations tend to overbuy ITSM tools beyond their needs. For instance, organizations purchase unnecessary capabilities … Continued
Critical incidents don’t come with a predetermined schedule or warning. So, it’s up to your organization to have an incident response procedure in place to combat these crisis. Don’t have one? Read below to perfect your incident response operations and adopt the right tools and procedures to fight against any critical event. Planning Phase In … Continued
