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Patch Tuesday shouldn’t feel like roulette. We sat down at Gartner Symposium with Egan from NinjaOne to explore a simple, disciplined idea: beat IT misery with speed, clarity, and trustworthy automation. Guided by decades in the DoD and intelligence community, Egan frames endpoint management as an operational craft where time-to-value, clean data, and risk-aware decisions matter more than shiny features. That lens drives concrete outcomes—deployments that go live in days, ROI signals within 24 hours, and onboarding that turns new admins productive in days instead of months.
We dig into pragmatic AI that actually helps the person doing the work. Patch sentiment intelligence aggregates global signals so teams can prioritize, stage, or defer updates with confidence, reducing outages and ticket spikes while maintaining security. Under the hood, AI-assisted asset data curation cleans messy inventories, improving patch targeting, vulnerability accuracy, and compliance reporting. When the data is right, every downstream action—from rollout plans to rollback analysis—gets faster and safer.
We also break down a partner-first go-to-market built for scale. Starting in the MSP world and expanding across mid-market, enterprise, and public sector, NinjaOne relies on certified services partners for deployment and operations. That rigor creates predictable rollouts, preserves institutional knowledge, and aligns incentives so customers see results quickly. The payoff is practical: fewer tools to manage, less training overhead, and a clearer path to automation that junior and senior admins alike can trust. If your team is under pressure to do more with less, this conversation offers an actionable blueprint for stability and speed.
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Chapters
1. Speed, Clarity, And Trust In Modern IT Ops (00:00:00)
2. Live At Gartner: Meet Egan (00:00:01)
3. Career Roots In DoD And Startups (00:00:15)
4. Beating IT Misery And Cost Pressure (00:00:54)
5. Time To Value And Onboarding Speed (00:01:28)
6. Pragmatic AI For Real Admin Work (00:02:29)
7. Patch Sentiment And Data Cleansing (00:03:10)
8. Partner-Led Go-To-Market Expansion (00:04:19)
9. Services Quality And Certifications (00:05:04)
10. Closing Thanks (00:05:42)
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