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Why MSPs Need Application Availability Monitoring

I’ve lived in the virtualization and cloud world for a really long time. During that time, I’ve also seen the impacts on users when you don’t have a good performance monitoring and troubleshooting system in place. That said, what if you have managed services? Do you understand what challenges managed services providers (MSPs) face when working without a monitoring and troubleshooting tool? How are you effectively resolving common VDI performance as well as connectivity issues?

CloudReady Dashboards Tips & Tricks Part #3

This is the third part of a series on the CloudReady dashboards and visualizations. The first part covered basics like Overviews, Refresh, and Layout settings. The second part covered more advanced dashboard usage like layout pinning, capture and embedding. In this third part we’ll cover key widgets, their usage and settings.

Part II: Anomaly detection within monitoring: how can you get started?

In a previous post we introduced anomaly detection as a group of techniques used to identify unusual behavior that does not comply with expected data pattern. In this article we will find out how we can apply anomaly detection within monitoring.

Detecting Data Breaches by Example - Vision Direct

Just as we were getting ready to launch our Data Breach Monitor, we heard the unfortunate news that fellow Yorkshire based business Vision Direct had suffered a malware attack, which resulted in the loss of financial data of around 6,600 customers. So we asked ourselves, could we have detected the same attack using our new monitor? The only way to find out was to infect a website and see what would happen…

Scaling DevOps for the Enterprise

A decade ago, an enterprise adopting DevOps was a rare event. In the last decade, some businesses dipped their toes in, others spent big money going all in. Now the question isn’t whether to make the culture shift, but how to be successful as it grows. It’s how to scale the adopted DevOps practices in the enterprise. This article is going to focus on highlighting common missteps and offer advice that can help you make decisions to handle the challenges ahead.

Business Chat Apps in 2018: Top Players and Adoption Plans

Even though email is ubiquitous in the workplace, and is undoubtedly a useful communication tool, using it can also pose some challenges. Email is prone to spam, it can be unnecessarily slow, and it’s easy for email recipients to be dropped from threads or excluded from conversations entirely — which can lead to missed connections and frustration.

NiCE VMware MP 5.00 Preview Release

Be the first to get a complete picture of the health and performance of your business critical VMware environment using the new NiCE VMware Management Pack. The NiCE VMware Management Pack delivers first-rate monitoring for business critical, highly dynamical virtualized environments. Leverage your existing investment and reduce costs, save time and build efficiencies now.

Key metrics for monitoring Tomcat

Apache Tomcat is a server for Java-based web applications, developed by the Apache Software Foundation. The Tomcat project’s source was originally created by Sun Microsystems and donated to the foundation in 1999. Tomcat is one of the more popular server implementations for Java web applications and runs in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM).