Help Desks are Now Discovering the Support Costs of #WFH Remote work can substantially reduce office expenses Employees can enjoy the zero-commute lifestyle. Companies can enjoy lower office costs, ranging from reduced power and AC bills to smaller leases (or even no leases), especially in high cost cities like San…
WAN Performance Survey Spring 2020 A recent survey of 60 firms (with more than 25 offices as identified by Automata) suggests that remote users may be assuming more responsibility for reporting potential network issues than when they were working from the office. This new reality didn’t have a material impact…
If you didn’t get a chance to attend our June webinar on the unique demands of remote worker (#WFH) network management and monitoring you can now attend the on-demand session or read the slides with highlights. Presenters Jess (NetBeez’ Digital Marketing Manager) introduced Steven and me. Steven is one of…
I was recently collaborating with the NetBeez team on a #WFH webinar only to find a service provider update impacting services. What a hassle. No warning. No advisory on any channels we pay to watch. That real estate is reserved for paid advertising or promoting (ironically) new premium service bundles….
A 2020 Dice survey of tech workers found roughly 53% preferred to work from home. Participants included employees of some of the world’s most admired technology companies, from Apple and Google to Microsoft. Many pundits are already speculating that remote work will become even more popular, not because of COVID-19,…
Run NetBeez on a Smart SFP I am happy to announce that NetBeez and PlumSpace, a vendor of Smart SFPs, have successfully tested an integration between the two company’s products. This integration enables PlumSpace users to install NetBeez agents on their Smart SFPs and gain the benefits of high performance…
With the rise of the remote work/telework, network engineers have shifted from being enablers of connectivity to drivers of productivity. As a former network engineer, I realize this isn’t a trivial shift. Given the impact the recent pandemic is having on the nature of the workplace, we need to consider…
Times are changing. The network is growing even more strategic and complex. Here’s how your team can keep up. In a recent article, Stefano Gridelli, CEO of NetBeez, discusses the drivers of network complexity in the new remote/#WFH era. There are certain “must have” capabilities required to scale network team…
Hundreds of miles away from their headquarters they’ve added a new switch in a manufacturing plant. There is a bandwidth issue, but they cannot pinpoint the problem. On-site personnel think it’s the network, but their WAN monitoring tools indicate their switches and routers are properly functioning. Yet the intermittent problems…
University Medical Network Team Reduces Root Cause Analysis Time by 75% What do you do when your network engineers are scrambling across hundreds of locations to resolve potential network issues only to find out that after almost two weeks of monitoring each site many of them weren’t even the network?…
