Why Monitoring Your Systems Should Be Multi-tiered
Multi-tiered monitoring is a vital part of any IT strategy. Here’s why your business needs to adopt this model today to improve network performance and keep your data secure.
4 Reasons Your Business Needs Microsoft Azure Cloud Services
Microsoft’s cloud is one that won’t rain on your business’s parade. The technology giant has been working hard lately to refine its cloud services and make them the best available. Using this premium world-class platform allows services such as multi-tiered cloud monitoring like SentinelAgent to monitor a vast number of servers, desktops and workstations at once. Receive personalized notifications for several metrics, check data and logs from any device in…
Ice Bucket Challenge: A Gesture That Reaches Above the Fray
Every now and then, the gusty winds of social media can cause waves of such magnitude that they almost defy belief. These unpredictable movements come seemingly out of nowhere and quickly flood our collective social consciousness. Until a few months ago, all we knew of ALS is that a prominent baseball player from the 1930s died from it, lending his name to the condition: Lou Gehrig’s disease. Ice Bucket Challenge:…
Private Doesn’t Equal Privacy: 4 Reasons to Go with a Cloud You Can Trust
Undoubtedly, cloud computing offers a myriad of benefits, including additional computing resources and reduced IT spending. But when it comes to the cloud, there is a right way and a wrong way to proceed. Many companies are wary of surrendering their computing infrastructures to third parties through a public cloud. They instead opt for a private cloud, mistaking “private” for “privacy.” Research shows, however, that private clouds are often riskier…
Using Event Logs to Monitor Windows Systems & Prevent Problems
The golden rule of IT is that the user should be the last to notice when a critical service or system has crashed. The key is to be proactive rather than reactive, but it’s hard to define what “proactive” means. For instance, do you need to perform physical inspections of network hardware and servers for red flags of imminent failure, or do you need to pore over never-ending event logs…
XaaS Unleashed: Why Everything-as-a-Service is Going Mainstream
Everything-as-a-service (XaaS) is going mainstream thanks to cloud-based applications and infrastructure from massive companies like Microsoft. As more businesses adopt XaaS systems, your company needs to keep up – not to spend more money, but to save you money. Building Flexibility into Organizations XaaS is nothing more than a transition from CapEx to OpEx investing. In IT, we’ve adopted the XaaS nomenclature, but basically, it’s just Pay-As-You-Go. Pay for what…