In a crowded MSP market, you need ways to differentiate yourself from the competition. As former MSP Charles Loves points out, “When you compare MSPs, the look and feel of the offering is often the same. So when the customer tries to compare MSP A, B, and C, what are the real differentiators they can leverage?” You don’t want to end up in a situation where dropping prices is the only way to edge out firms with similar offerings.

It does not matter how BIG your IT team is – this little device doesn’t need much. No fancy desks, gadgets, vacation days or sick days. It keeps your team working efficiently and effectively so that they can focus on the real matters!

As communication and network infrastructure grows in size and complexity, having a complete view and understanding of your network environment (including the amount and type of network traffic going back and forth) becomes vital to your business’ health and operations. Having the right tools to do the job is just as important. If you can’t quickly determine the source, destination, rate and the type of traffic going across the network, you don’t have the right tool.

Customers are visiting your website, employees are logging into your systems and countless machines are talking to each other in an effort to deliver the perfect user experience. We’d like to believe that all of these individuals and machines are operating with the best of intentions, but how can we be so sure? One possible answer lies in the connecting device’s IP address and its respective physical location.

Globalization and foreign investments have completely changed the way enterprises are run today. Enterprises are expanding geographically to diversify their risk portfolio, but this expansion hasn’t been linear. From mergers to buyouts, today’s enterprises have endless possibilities, which translates into inorganic, exponential growth—something that’s become the industry norm.

In this edition of News That Makes the Channel Cringe, a new Sophos report reveals IT pros can’t identify almost half (45%) of the traffic flowing through their networks. The Dirty Secrets of Network Firewalls study, which included the responses of 2,700 mid-size business IT leaders, goes on to say 25% can’t identify over 70% of total network traffic. That’s a massive blind spot, especially with mounting concerns over cybersecurity. The network is what keeps your clients connected.

Today PerfOps is releasing a new unique feature that allows users to analyze our performance data in even more detail! From now on, you will be able to access the raw logs for all of our HTTP benchmarks. Every single data point that we used to build our charts is available for everyone, along with the full metadata.

Have any of your website or web applications gone down, been hacked, or defaced? When and how did you find out? In this post, we will show you how Netmon monitors your websites (or web applications) in our complete Network Monitoring Solution.

The news is filled with stories about horrible attacks against corporate and government networks. It’s almost enough to make administrators for small and mid-sized networks give up. But it’s important to note not all of these attacks are the same. There’s a vast difference, for example, between the incredibly sophisticated long-term attacks against high-profile companies and government agencies, and the mere smash-and-grab attacks.