Top 5 IT challenges for 2017
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The document discusses the top 5 IT challenges organizations are likely to face in 2017 according to an IT management company survey. The challenges are handling security threats, adding new devices and monitoring them, dealing with budget cuts, dealing with sudden unauthorized changes and ensuring compliance, and finding correlations between issues to determine the root cause. The document then proceeds to discuss solutions provided by the company's network monitoring product, OpManager Plus, to address each of these challenges. It highlights features such as firewall management, scalability, tracking of changes, and root cause analysis to help admins strengthen security, adapt to growth, work within budgets, and resolve issues more efficiently.
Top 5 IT challenges for 2017
- 1. TOP 5 IT CHALLENGES FOR 2017 “Luck favors the prepared” – Louis Pasteur
- 2. KNOW WHAT’S COMING AND BE PREPARED • It’s already February and we have no time to spare in knowing the IT challenges we are about to face this year. • At ManageEngine, we set about to find just that. We asked your peers about the same and here’s what they think. Handling security threats Adding new devices and monitoring them Dealing with budget cuts Sudden unauthorized changes and compliance Finding correlation between issues and finding root cause 82% 56% 51% 49% 46%
- 3. ARE YOU READY TO SLAY THESE IT MONSTERS?
- 4. BUILDING NEW WALLS AIN’T THE ANSWER. STRENGTHEN YOUR FIREWALL INSTEAD. • A monstrous breach in the network and the havoc that follows is the biggest fear in every network admin’s mind. • The best way to avoid a breach is to keep a check at the gate of your network and fight away these monsters. • Firewall management is a crucial aspect of network monitoring. A neat firewall management ensures network security. OpManager Plus offers network security through firewall policy management, network forensic audits, user internet activity monitoring and much more.
- 6. DON’T LET BUDGET CUTS CUT THROUGH YOUR NETWORK. • You love your network. You want to save it from any disaster and keep it secure. But what would you do if your company is unable to give you enough budget to do that? • Here’s what you can do to not just make it through budget cuts, but also come out flying. • One of the most common seep holes for your money is the multiple tools used to manage your network. Installation, licensing and support – all multifold. Cut the expense by replacing multiple tools with one that can do the same or even more. OpManager Plus is a 5-in-1 network management platform that gives a holistic management of your network.
- 7. OPMANAGER PLUS – A 5 IN 1 NETWORK MONITORING SOLUTION
- 8. DON’T MAKE DO WITH AN ‘S’ WHEN YOUR NETWORK REQUIRES AN ‘XXL’ • Is your business growing everyday? That’s good news. But surely your business needs grow along too, which involves adding new users and devices, and also careful monitoring. • This is when your favorite monitoring solution can no longer scale to meet your business needs. Stop crunching your network into an ill-fitted solution. OpManager Plus offers high flexibility and scalability to let you add devices and users in bulk of any number.
- 9. WHO IS JOHN GALT? • Change is the only constant. If you are a network admin, you would know this statement can’t be any more true. • So, what do you do when there is a change every minute at every corner of your network? Each change carrying with it the possibility of bringing down your sweet little network. • Finding out who did what and when becomes a haunting question that keeps hitting your face. OpManager Plus let’s you track the changes made by every operator with a label as ‘unauthorized change’ and also, let’s you revert the changes. Any upload by an operator will be sent for approval and will be executed only upon approval.
- 10. NETWORK CONFIGURATION MANAGER – COMPARE VERSIONS AND IDENTIFY THE CHANGES MADE
- 11. IT’S ALWAYS MORE THAN WHAT YOU CAN SEE. • Treating the symptom is only going to pacify the monster for a little while. • Analyzing the root cause by correlating data from multiple monitoring tools, and fixing the issue will ensure slaying of the monster. • It’s going to take more time than you could afford. OpManager Plus, being the integrated monitoring platform, offers a single page view of all data and enables you to correlate. Once finding the root cause is made this simple, fixing it would be a no biggie.
- 12. FIND OUT WHAT WENT WRONG AND WHAT CAUSED THE ISSUE.
- 13. INTERESTED IN OPMANAGER PLUS? Download: https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/download.html Free demo: https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/demo-form.html Forums: https://forums.manageengine.com/opmanager YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHLusaahd4nS9esD3xBVeUQ Support: opmanager-support@manageengine.com