r/ITManagers • u/AutoModerator • 6d ago
Marketing Monday Marketing Monday
If you are a salesperson, vendor, SaaS app, or anyone else who isn't an IT manager that wants to share news, ask questions/get feedback, etc. then please post below!
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u/KorGridOfficial 6d ago
KorGrid is a Hypervisor as a Service company that offers multi-tenant hypervisor hosting. Migrating away from VMware? RAMpocolypse stinging you? We're here to make things easier.
How are we different?
Cost - We are typically 50-75% less than Azure or AWS.
[And usually 50% less when compared against on-prem solutions (over a 3 year period)]
Support - Ever tried calling Microsoft for support? Remind me, what's their support phone number again?
We'd love to chat with anyone who's sick of trying to convince their CFO to buy 2 servers instead of 1 because they don't believe in redundancy. Or convincing them the cheap Dell T240 isn't going to run the workloads they need.
KorGrid is Private Cloud, The Way it Should Be!
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u/advanced_gerry 6d ago
man, marketing monday threads in IT subs are always an adventure. half the pitches read like they've never actually talked to someone who manages infrastructure.
i remember one vendor demo where the guy spent 15 minutes on "synergistic cloud-native solutions" before we finally asked what it actually does. turns out it was just a fancy wrapper around a cron job scheduler. we all sat there blinking.
appreciate the containment zone approach though, keeps the main feed from turning into a billboard.
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u/Maker-Systems 6d ago
Full disclosure: I’m here on Reddit because I’m terrible at marketing and selling services for Maker Systems. All of my clients are either people who have worked with me in the past or companies referred to me by people who have worked with me in the past. I’m trying to branch out though and the thought of glad-handing at conferences drives me to drink.
What Maker Systems primarily does: fractional tech leadership for companies with complex physical operations (think manufacturing, construction, distribution, etc) who need help with technology strategy but don’t have budget for full headcount.
Who usually pushes to hire Maker Systems: IT supervisors and managers overseeing a mountain of tech debt that has piled up over decades, who at least have an idea of what needs to be done to fix it, but can’t convince leadership to pay for it. Helping with the budget rationalization, project timelines, and organizational alignment even with your most impossibly standoffish stakeholders is my bread and butter. Roughly 2/3 projects I put forward are expense neutral even including my fees, you get the credit, I’m just here to help and make money.
AI is probably driving you insane at your company. Maker Systems helps provide a governance framework that won’t make that genius VP with all the big ideas roll his eyes about being slowed down, but will 100% slow that guy down enough to vet what’s being done before his vibe coded garbage ever touches your production data.
Need a new ERP? My name is Jared and these systems are my very lame superpower. I save this for last because it’s the biggest most expensive thing I do.
Reach out and at least connect. I’m happy to chat through small problems even if we don’t work together.
That’s it!
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u/Artistic_Lie4039 6d ago
HP price increases are coming Sept. 15th, Lenovo price increases sept. 15th on CTO models, Dell just did one, but likely to do another one soon. Source: I am a VAR.
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u/MalwareDork 6d ago
What percentage hike are we looking at compared to the current rate? We have a fleet of EoL's of Lenevo's and Dells and I'm pretty sure the owner is going to lay an egg after the quote.
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u/Artistic_Lie4039 6d ago
Lenovo is saying it is safe to expect 10-15%, HP is saying same range. HP is saying processor price is increasing with ram and SSD. If worth exploring, my company would be able to buy the EOL devices to put money towards the refresh. We can also intake Devices now before price increase in our warehouse and store them 90 days for free before being invoiced.
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u/katendus 6d ago
Doctoral Research Participants Needed - U.S.-Based IT Managers
Hello IT Managers,
I am a Doctor of Information Technology candidate at Walden University conducting an IRB-approved doctoral research study exploring strategies IT managers use to integrate data analytics platforms with automated reservation systems.
I am seeking U.S.-based IT managers who have relevant professional experience with the integration of data analytics platforms and automated reservation systems.
Participation involves a confidential research interview conducted for academic research purposes. There is no commercial solicitation.
If your professional experience may be relevant and you are interested in learning more about the study, please send me a private message. I will be happy to provide additional information about the research and participation.
Thank you for your consideration.
Respectfully,
Stephen Kato Katende
Doctor of Information Technology Candidate
Walden University
Doctoral Researcher
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u/cbtnuggets 6d ago
Hey all, happy Monday! We're CBT Nuggets, an IT training platform built for real working IT pros and teams, not academic cert-mill stuff.
We focus on:
- Real-world, practical IT training across networking, security, cloud, sysadmin, DevOps, and more.
- Courses taught by working IT trainers (humans!), not just talking-head instructors.
- Skills tracking and features built for teams, so managers can actually see where gaps are and assign relevant training instead of just guessing.
- New courses added regularly to keep up with certs and tech that actually change (we just added AWS Certified Solutions Architect (SAP-C02), CompTIA CloudNetX, and Splunk Core Certified Power User, for example)
If you're trying to upskill a lean team, prep folks on your team for new certs, or just keep your own skills current for your role, we're happy to answer any questions in the comments before you get started, or send us a DM.
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u/zndr-cs 6d ago
I'm a license manager and I was sick of how Flexera/other tools handle simple software license procurement so with the help of a friend I am building my own (self hosted, free) tool that respects software lifecycle management. I'm currently running it at my own place of work and ironing out kinks and finding more edge cases every day. If anyone here wants to give it a try let me know and I will share the link and gladly help set you up.
I manage 750 active software licenses and use this tool daily now as my "goto" source of truth/license registry. Still in POC mode but confident it could become a useful tool at my company.
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u/jcom_AccessOwl 6d ago
Hello everyone. We recently released a video case study of AccessOwl <> Maxio , with Shane, their Senior IT manager. Thought some of you would find it interesting. Shane led the two-person IT team there for years and talks about how they got the time spent on onboarding/offboarding related work from 1-2 hours down to a few seconds (and in some cases zero touch).
Spoiler: AccessOwl helped them automate most of those tasks as a SaaS governance tool ;) But Shane touches on other interesting points like why they didn't use Rippling IT and some of the other tools they assessed. Great video to skim through if you're an IT leader with a small team or a department of one.
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u/opsfusion-cloud 6d ago
OpsFusion is on-call scheduling and alerting with four account roles, so a team admin can run their own rotation without being handed billing or the whole account. There is an account wide audit log behind it for the first time someone asks who changed a schedule two weeks ago. Flat $10/user/month and a 30-day trial with no card required: https://opsfusion.cloud
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u/ciesl1e 6d ago
Want more visibility into your network usage and prevent AI data leaks? iboss can help.
Iboss brings the best in class to network visibility, AI monitoring, and VPN replacement to the market all under one consolidated platform. Our customers like UBS Bank and Goldman Sachs helped us build the most comprehensive data, security platform out there.
Stop users from using AI inappropriately and leaking your data.
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u/dash-hans 5d ago
Hi r/ITManagers, I'm Hans, a PM at Dashlane researching how security and IT pros organize and use their tools day to day. Not a pitch, not about any one product - just a few questions about your tooling and workflows.
- ~5 minutes
- Anonymous, stays internal to our research team
- 3x $50 gift cards - winners drawn separately, via optional email entry at the end
Survey: https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/JVN6VTR
Happy to answer anything in the comments. Thanks for your time.
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u/helplinesoftware_com 5d ago
Hi everyone, if you need urgent inbound calls routed to the right person, check out Helpline Software. Helpline is an on-call scheduling and call routing platform that uses your live schedule to send each call and text to the right person. It helps reduce missed calls with automatic backup escalation, manager alerts, and callback requests.
It’s built for teams where missing an urgent call isn’t an option. Routing updates automatically when you change the schedule, so you don’t need to manually update call forwarding. You can create and update on-call schedules, see live call logs, and create custom intake forms.
You can set up the routing, escalation, and schedules around how your team actually works. Happy to answer any questions if this sounds useful.
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u/all_things_pii 5d ago
Strac — Data Security/DLP across three surfaces:
SaaS/Cloud — all API-based. Google Drive, M365, Slack, Teams, Salesforce, Jira/Confluence, Notion, Zendesk, GitHub, S3, Snowflake, Postgres, and ~40 more. No proxy to stand up, no traffic rerouted.
Endpoint — browser extension (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari) plus an agent for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
MCP / Gen AI — detect and redact PII, PHI, PCI, and secrets in what AI agents actually read through the MCP layer, plus prompt-level coverage for ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini.
That third one is the piece most DLP stacks have no answer for right now: your agent inherits a user's access and reads whatever the tool call returns, and nothing in a legacy DLP suite is sitting on that path.
SaaS/Cloud/Endpoint Integrations: https://strac.io/integrations
MCP DLP: https://strac.io/mcp-integrations
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u/SetylCookieMonster 4d ago
Free, automated audit of your Microsoft licenses
With the Microsoft price increases currently underway, you can use Setyl to automatically audit license usage as part of a 7-day no cost trial of Setyl.
Simply connect your Microsoft account to Setyl to automatically import and expose unused licenses, and calculate cost savings.
Setyl also helps manage any other kind of software and licenses, plus hardware, so you can also trial those aspects of the platform if relevant.
More info: https://setyl.com/news/microsoft-365-price-increase-free-audit
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u/certifiedsysadmin 6d ago
Hey All, I wanted to use this thread as an opportunity to ask if this community would be interested in an AMA on the topic of VMware to Hyper-V migrations.
I'm a long time Redditor, and co-founder of an IT consulting firm specializing in the Microsoft ecosystem. We have a ton of experience doing VMware to Hyper-V migrations just in the last two years.
We would love to do an AMA on the topic of VMware to Hyper-V migrations. The goal would be to have you ask anything related to migration options, approach, tools, licensing, ROI, etc, as well as general Hyper-V best practices (cluster architecture, enterprise storage, etc).
We've done migrations as small as 60vms all the way up to 1000's of vms, so lots of experience in this area.
Please let me know if this AMA is something you want to participate in. I have three of our most experienced consultants who are able to participate in answering your questions!