Best Practices of High-Performing IT Teams
Your IT team is a pivotal part of your business, and as such, deserves your attention. Because if your IT team struggles to get its job done, your entire company could struggle as well. To better understand the importance of a high-performing IT team, let’s consider the results of a data center outage study conducted […]
How to Choose The Best Incident Management Tool in 2023
Incident management is a top priority for many businesses, yet few companies understand exactly what it takes to choose the right incident management tool. Although many incident management tools/system providers claim to offer the latest and greatest technologies, there is no one-size-fits-all incident management solution. As such, businesses need to perform extensive research before they buy […]
The True Cost of Downtime
A recent survey conducted by Information Technology Intelligence Consulting (ITIC) found that a single hour cost of downtime costs more than $100,000 for 98 percent of organizations. 60 percent noted that one hour of down time costs more than $300,000. Also, 33 percent stated one hour of down time costs between $1 million and $5 million. Downtime is a serious problem regardless […]
How Does Alert Fatigue Affect Teams?
IT service management (ITSM) and DevOps teams are responsible for identifying incident management issues as quickly as possible. Yet the sheer volume of incident management alerts sometimes can be overwhelming. And in many instances, teams bombarded with incident management alerts may suffer “alert fatigue.” Alert fatigue affect teams when it receives a high volume of […]
Best Practices for Major Incident Management Teams (in 2023)
If a server crashes or a data center outage occurs, does your major incident management team understand best practices to respond quickly and effectively? If not, your company, its employees and its customers could suffer the consequences. A major incident causes a business to deviate from its standard processes, and as such, may result in […]
How Much Will Your Outage Cost?
Has your company ever faced an outage? If so you are not alone. Internet and airline outages seem to be the new trend, with major websites flickering on and off for US based internet users. The hackers flood the websites with traffic so they can’t handle the visits from their ordinary users. Besides the inconvenience […]
Why Retailers Need Incident Management Software
As a retailer, you likely invest a lot of time and resources to explore ways to drive revenue growth and foster long-lasting customer partnerships. But what happens when your company suffers a major incident like a data breach? The end result may be a downward spiral that affects your business, its employees and, perhaps most important, […]
Integrate Your Incident Management Tool into Your Scheduling System
Managed service providers (MSPs) are becoming exceedingly important to organizations around the world. MSPs deliver network, application, system and e-management services across a network. As more companies embrace digital transformation, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and other revolutionary technologies and processes, the demand for MSPs is expected to increase substantially in the foreseeable future. The global managed services […]
Why You Need Multi-Modal Incident Management Software
Today’s IT monitoring systems enable you to track just about anything – from file sizes to network bandwidth to website traffic to potential viruses and other types of cyberattacks. There are all-inclusive tools that will do all of the above. Or, you can pick and choose the best tool for each of your monitoring needs. […]
What Is Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR)?
Mean time to resolution (MTTR) is a crucial service-level metric for incident management teams. This metric helps organizations evaluate the average amount of time between when an incident is reported and when an incident is fully resolved. And the higher an incident management team’s MTTR (Mean time to resolution), the more likely it becomes that […]
