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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

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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

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IT is Heading for The Perfect Storm….

Just back from Barcelona and MWC-2011 I would say that we are heading for “The Perfect Storm” (if you recall the movie it did not end so good…). Who will suffer in this storm and why do I make this reference? Continue reading

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Want to work for op5? We are searching for four new colleagues…

We are now searching for new innovative colleagues to join us in our quest to offer our customers a high performing and cost effective monitoring solution for IT management. Continue reading

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Successfull IT consists of 3 things….

Successful IT consists of three things! Technology Money Happy users (SLA – See Ove’s comment at end – thanks) The IT challenge of today and tomorrow is an unfamiliar turf for the legacy IT departments as the way to build … Continue reading

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An early Christmas Gift from op5 – op5 Monitor 5.3

Only 6 weeks after the last release, we can now present op5 Monitor 5.3! This release brings several nifty capabilities as well as further results of the ever ongoing improvements of performance. Continue reading

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op5 NSClient++ 0.3.9 is out

NSClient++ is a nagios agent used for monitoring Windows type operating systems. Some bugfixes and a couple of new features have been added by op5 coders in the op5 NSCLient++ 0.3.9. Continue reading

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Open standards – it’s a must or it will cost you dearly…

Yesterday I was at a meeting at Opensource Sweden, were we discussed open standards – it was very interesting. Thanks Björn L for a good presentation. We are quickly getting to a point were almost 100% of our lives – both … Continue reading

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Techworld missar två viktiga punkter om övervakning….

Kommentar till artikel i IDG: http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.327862/overvakningen-tar-nya-vagar Kul att du skriver om övervakning, tycker jag:) Några saker som jag tycker att du förbisåg i din artikel: 1 – Enkelhet, allt detta som du skriver är superbra – förutsatt att jobbet dvs. … Continue reading

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Release announcement: op5 Monitor 5.2 BETA available for testing

The leading European Open Source Network Monitoring Company op5 is releasing a beta of the upcoming op5 Monitor 5.2. The release of op5 Monitor 5.2 will raise the bar for distributed monitoring, and enable our users to build even more exciting and compelling solutions. Continue reading

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