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ipMonitor Free Edition: Essential IT Monitoring

SolarWinds® ipMonitor® is built to be quick, affordable, and agentless monitoring software for your network, servers, and applications. ipMonitor delivers out-of-the-box visibility into essential availability and performance metrics for your critical IT environment, and includes a built-in database and web server, so you don’t need to install anything but ipMonitor.

How Is AI Transforming Cloud Management?

In 1927, the world was introduced to the origins of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the form of a robot in the movie Metropolis. Throughout nearly a century since then, movies have continued to iterate on the complexities of AI, as both a fun take on it and serious commentary on the potential concerns and consequences. This is all well and good, but as AI has continued to evolve, we find ourselves asking, “how can we actually use this to make our lives easier?”

Best Monitoring Tools for Hadoop

Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework that can process and distribute large data sets across multiple clusters of computers. Hadoop was designed to break down data management workloads over a cluster of computers. It divides data processing between multiple nodes, which manages the datasets more efficiently than a single device could. Here is our list of the best Hadoop monitoring tools.

Network Security Monitoring Essential Guide

The conventional monitoring solution focussed primarily on analysing the performance of the network. Gradually, the scope of such tools increased and they are now packed with a host of security features. Focus is now more towards Forensic analysis, security threats analyzer, TCP analyzer, Firewall monitoring, Auditing and Compliances. So, how do you know which network security monitoring tool is essential for you? Which technique will provide the best ROI for your business?

Why Monitor Third-Party Web Applications?

If you provide a web service or benefit from a provided service, there’s typically an agreement between the provider and customers to contractually bind the provider to meet a certain level of service, otherwise known as a Service Level Agreement (SLA). The provider needs to be sure they deliver quality site performance and they’re extremely reliable, at the risk of hurting their brand reputation and losing customers.

What Can Website Uptime History Tell You? (That You Don't Already Know)

According to a 2019 study conducted by Forrester, 44% of the IT directors surveyed indicated their organizations face unplanned downtime bimonthly. The study also estimated unplanned downtime costs 35% more per minute than planned downtime. If you’re an MSP, a failure to meet SLAs for uptime can lead to even higher costs and penalties.

APM Integrated Experience

We’ve been listening to our customers. Whether you’re a SolarWinds® Loggly® or SolarWinds AppOptics™ user, we’ve been working hard to make your life easier. We’re happy to announce a brand-new experience that brings together metrics, traces, and logs in a single platform, making it faster and easier to troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues.

What Can Website Uptime History Tell You? (That You Don't Already Know)

According to a 2019 study conducted by Forrester, 44% of the IT directors surveyed indicated their organizations face unplanned downtime bimonthly. The study also estimated unplanned downtime costs 35% more per minute than planned downtime. If you’re an MSP, a failure to meet SLAs for uptime can lead to even higher costs and penalties.

Can You Consistently Deliver the Digital Experience You've Promised?

If the users aren’t happy, then in short order, neither will anyone else be. The ubiquity of information technology has exposed users to the best the IT industry has to offer—and the worst. So, if end-user experience is king, how does one go about ensuring users stay happy? The short answer is application performance management (APM) tools. Users don’t care if the apps they use are in the cloud, on-premises, or something in between.

Citrix NetScaler ADM for Virtual App and Desktop Performance Management

Citrix Application Delivery Management (ADM) – previously called as Citrix NetScaler Management and Analytics System (MAS) – is a centralized management solution that provides administrators with the ability to manage and monitor Citrix application networking products from a single, unified console. Citrix ADM includes a number of modules including Web Insight, HDX Insight, Gateway Insight, Security Insight, SSL Insight, TCP Insight, Video Insight, and WAN Insight.