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Endpoint security: The key to protecting your enterprise

To operate efficiently, businesses today use numerous devices such as laptops, desktop computers, and mobile devices. Securing all these devices—collectively called endpoints—significantly improves the overall security of your enterprise’s IT network. This blog can help you get started with endpoint security. To begin with, let’s define endpoint security.

6 Reasons Why the Largest Companies in the World Are Adopting Grafana Enterprise

If you’ve heard about Grafana Enterprise (the commercial version of Grafana), you might be wondering if companies actually pay for something that is already so good as an open source software. In my role at Grafana Labs I’ve talked with hundreds of companies from all over the world, in many different industries. I’ve listened as they shared the daily challenges and frustrations they face at their organizations.

Cisco HyperFlex: Expanded Coverage from LogicMonitor

LogicMonitor is expanding its Cisco platform coverage by releasing new Cisco HyperFlex LogicModules. Hyperflex is Cisco’s hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform. This platform is designed to tightly integrate storage, network, and virtualization for ease of use and efficient scalability. With LogicMonitor’s Cisco HyperFlex package, which leverages the Cisco HyperFlex REST API, you can monitor a large number of HyperFlex operations.

NiCE VMware Management Pack picked by Multinational Chemicals Company

NiCE IT Management Solutions is proud to serve global key-players in advanced VMware performance and health monitoring. Read the latest customer reference on how the NiCE VMware Management Pack is helping a multinational chemicals company in their VMware operations.

Docker logging best practices

When an application in a Docker container emits logs, they are sent to the application’s stdout and stderr output streams. The container’s logging driver can access these streams and send the logs to a file, a log collector running on the host, or a log management service endpoint. In this post, we’ll explain how the driver you choose—and how you configure it—influences the performance of your containerized application and the reliability of your Docker logging.

Four reasons why SMBs need network monitoring

As businesses grow, so do their networks and the challenges that come along with managing them. For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), however, tight budgets and fewer resources make it even more challenging for network admins to manually track and monitor all network elements. Without a proper tool in place, even simple issues like poor internet connectivity and network outages can bring down a service.

Gartner's Latest Recommendations in IT Infrastructure Monitoring: Modernizing Infrastructure, Ops and Cloud Management

Gartner’s latest Market Guide for IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools has just been released, and we are once again proud to be included as a Representative Vendor. Unsurprisingly, Gartner has found that customer trends toward the adoption of multicloud technologies continue to progress, which can have big implications on the monitoring platforms deployed to keep pace.