Change is constant across your IT estate. But is it under control?

There’s never been so much change happening across an IT estate. And it’s constant. On a day-to-day basis, IT teams might be creating and monitoring user permissions, deploying any scheduled operating system (OS) updates or integrating new third-party software tools. This is not to mention all the change carried out by external providers, outsourced teams and employees.

Change itself is not a problem. Indeed, it’s essential for ongoing security, resilience and modernization. Change that isn’t actively managed, however, is a different story. This could be change that goes unnoticed, like an external patch that automatically updates a system without IT oversight, or change that is forced, like rushing an OS upgrade to meet an impending end-of-life deadline.

Director at Cloudhouse.

The trouble is many organizations have to monitor incredibly large and complex IT estates that can contain hundreds or thousands of business-critical endpoints. And so much change is now...

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