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Network Management

5 Reasons to Add Network Monitoring to Your Budget

Allocating money in your IT budget for network monitoring in 2021 may be more important than ever. Here are five reasons why.

Cybersecurity

Using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to Assess Your Clients’ Network Security

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework was intended to be used by internal IT teams, but can be used to create a network security assessment tool for MSPs.

Network Management

Help Desk vs Service Desk: How to Choose the Right One

An IT help desk is meant to be a single point of contact (SPOC) that employees and customers can use to get support from your business. Its primary function is…

Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

Think You’re a Proactive MSP? Think Again! Getting Proactive with TruMethods’ Gary Pica

MSPs generate more MRR (monthly recurring revenue) when they’re able to reduce reactive noise and dedicate their resources to more proactive managed services…

Protocols & Communication

Agent vs Agentless Monitoring: Which is Best?

Agent-based and agentless monitoring are the two main approaches network monitoring tools use to capture and report data from network devices. As the names…

Tech Industry

Going Online Like it’s 1989: Using an Atari Portfolio as a Terminal Emulator

Oops! You messed up. Big time. You’re working on a network device, making some major configuration changes. As soon as you hit enter, you lose communication…

Network Management

Proactive Healthcare Network Monitoring: The Importance of Early Detection

Healthcare IT is simultaneously one of the most complex and sensitive networking systems there are. Aside from the wealth of confidential data they process and…

Network Management

Embracing Shadow IT (Video)

Shadow IT. Many IT pros shudder at the term. For those who may not be familiar, shadow IT refers to the devices, systems, and applications on your network that…

Careers Blog

Our Engineering Tech Stack and How it Evolves

Rob Bredin, Auvik’s Technical Director, shares how our tech stack is always evolving, and what kind of challenges you’ll work on as an Auvik engineer.

Network Management

Regex 101 for Network Admins

Regex—short for regular expressions—is a way to describe a search pattern. They can be used to find a text pattern or string (character sequence) within a…

Devices

The Auvik Network Device Buyer’s Guide

Buying the right network devices is an essential part of network design, and can have an impact throughout the network lifecycle. Get it right, and your…

Configuration & Troubleshooting

Network Configuration Management: The Benefits & Importance

Configuration management is one of those network management topics people often neglect. Here’s why you shouldn’t.

IT Leadership

When End Users Attack: Tips for Fixing a Hostile Work Environment

IT service roles will never be “stress-free”. The nature of break-fix work for critical systems inherently comes with the job. However, toxic work environments…

Careers Blog

Meet Our International Engineering Team

The pandemic made us rethink how we work. We’re committed to a distributed work model and growing our engineering team across the world. Learn what you can…

Network Management

What is ITAM? Guide to IT Asset Management

In the business world, information technology (IT) is everything. Without it, companies would struggle to keep track of their data and operations. However,…

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