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Category Archives: ITOM and more
Scalability – when is IT considered BIG?
It took thirty-five years to get to +8billion IP addresses, Gartner and others predict this will double in less then 3 years. So basically doubling the internet in less then 10% of the time it took to get to where we are today – that will effect your IT systems, but perhaps more importantly it will have massive effect on the everyday IT operations and the need for monitoring. Continue reading
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Tagged load balancing, m2m, op5, op5 Monitor, scalability
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The battle of Stability vs. Agility
Can Stability and Agility go hand in hand? Business wants agile IT, fast and flexible. IT operations is all about maintaining stability. Can the two really meet? An increasing number of IT organisations are facing the challenge to having to accept demands for … Continue reading
How to qualify a vendor by looking at their manual
At a time when all vendors compete in being “extremely simple and very cheap” it can sometimes be a challenge to make a fast and quick comparison. I have a “simple, cheap and quick” tip to help make the initial judgement on the overall quality of a product, the company behind it and all promises that are given….. Continue reading
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Tagged good manual, manual, qualify a vendor
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Why distributed monitoring matters!
If you have all your data-systems in your basement and all your users internally or externally in the same building – you can stop reading now and save time:) If not – then you might find this interesting…
A salute to all Net Admins!
Better late then never and I blame it on my holiday as I was not logged in yesterday… in any case this is just to highlight the ”12th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day” – our most important users and influencers to … Continue reading
Banking & Finance – a hyper changing industry, balancing time to market, security and control
In the past months we as a company has gained the trust to deliver our solution to a number of banks and other financial companies. This is a fascinating industry clearly in a mega change. It’s not rocket science to … Continue reading
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Tagged network monitoring, op5, op5 Monitor, security, Web service monitoring
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New colleagues – new fun!
Attracting new super smart people to the company is sometimes a very tidies and heavy load on top of the everyday tasks, and this was a priority task for us when starting up the new year. But as with most tasks that demand a lot – the reward is greater:)
In the last couple weeks I have had the fortune to start get to know completely new people – and that is a lot of fun. Continue reading
The hidden costs/risks of TCO
In the past weeks we have signed a number of different deals with companies all caught in the same big problem – their Nagios/NMS expert left for another job! This highlights an often forgotten part… Continue reading
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Tagged hidden cost, Nagios, Risk analysis, sysadmins, TCO
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Return on investment for SMB Enterprise…
Over 500 SMB companies replied to a recent study on how malfunctioning IT makes their staff and business suffer. On average they spent 2 hours a week fiddling with non working IT systems and applications. Also realizing that SMB companies often have very limited direct IT resources these 2 hours are not always directly accessible. Many times you need to wait a day or more before an “expert” can start to look at the problem. Continue reading
From three product to one – why?
From three products to one – why?
Just last week we launched our new product strategy from previous three individual product to one and I just thought about writing a little bit about the reasons for the this decision. Off course there are multiple of reasons and I’ll just focus on the main ones. Continue reading
