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Pulseway 2019 Predictions: IT Admins - What Will Fall Through the Cracks?

Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2019.  Read them in this 11th annual VMblog.com series exclusive.

Contributed by Marius Mihalec, CEO & Founder at Pulseway

2019 predictions for IT admins: What will fall through the cracks?

Increased responsibility and evolved complexity have made it difficult for IT admins to manage their infrastructure. It's overwhelming keeping tabs on each component, often designed by multiple vendors having different interfaces, used to achieve different goals.

IT admins have to bite off more than they can chew, inevitably leaving space for bad things to happen. Here's our list of 2019 predictions of the risk overworked IT admins are likely to face (with solutions!).

Let's dive in and look at potential issues likely to fall through the cracks, and learn how to patch them up.

Lagging behind recurring issues

Overworked IT admins struggle to be on top of everything at all times. There's a high probability that recurring issues will go unnoticed without admins even realizing it.

Solution: Use artificial intelligence (AI) in automation to resolve recurring issues with ease. Intelligent monitoring and self-assist alerts understand the nature of the issue and address it accordingly - usually without human intervention.

Unusual ransomware attacks

The unauthorized access of computer resources to mine cryptocurrencies went up 1,000 percent in just the first six months of 2018. Crypto-mining malware is a sophisticated attack in a long line of unusual ransomware hacks. Today, more data is being stolen over the weekend when most IT admins are offline.

Solution Apply conditional AI automation in which admins can pre-set threats based on which system will flag alerts. However, to do so, admins should have knowledge of current threats. Hive learning, a collaborative learning technique, gets everyone on the same page in understanding new threats, which in turn helps with brainstorming solutions.

Putting out fires, constantly

Limited budgets and lack of expertise will always keep IT admins on the edge of their seats when it comes to security. They'll be following reactive security measures which, in a volatile IT ecosystem is simply not sustainable.

Solution: IT admins should look outside to compensate for the lack of resources. Managed service providers (MSPs) and managed service security providers (MSSPs) are a cost-efficient way to monitor and secure IT networks against all threats.

Lost in translation

C-level executives are interested in the success and failures of the IT team. Admins will need a common language to communicate across the organization on the various infrastructure inflection points. This is a real challenge, since information often gets lost or misconstrued in a chaotic infrastructure.
 
Solution: IT documentation enables knowledge transfer across the organization in a standardized format. Successful executives will be on top of everything, including completed and ongoing projects.

IT admins will look to migrate...

To mitigate risks, IT admins will look to migrate generic tasks and security measures to service providers. This will give admins more time to focus on the core issues, leading to increased productivity and overall work satisfaction.

Basically, it's time for IT admins to start shopping for MSPs and MSSPs with expertise in their industry. Admins enjoy standard IT services bundled with highly industry-specialized solutions - a total package that gives IT admins a unique edge.

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About the Author

Marius Mihalec 

Marius Mihalec is CEO and Founder of Pulseway, www.pulseway.com, where he and his team are committed to building the best mobile-first, cloud-first remote monitoring and management (RMM) software.  Before founding Pulseway, he was a technical architect at Irish Medical Systems (IMS MAXIMS) for 10 years. Mihalec holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.

Published Thursday, February 07, 2019 7:31 AM by David Marshall
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