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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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SOPA means garbage in Swedish…

Sopa is the Swedish name for garbage or a very underperforming person. I think that summarizes my thought on the SOPA discussion. Here is great article that is well worth reading: http://mashable.com/2012/01/17/sopa-dangerous-opinion/ / Jan

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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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Where does a monitoring system potentially save you money?

The saving can be identified in many places depending on your organisation and your needs. Here are some of the savings users of op5 Monitor have reported Continue reading

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Maintenance, Improvements and Upgrades

We’d like to inform all our customers, partners and community-members that we’ve a planned maintenance window Thursday 22:nd of September between 14:00 – 16:00 UTC (16:00 – 18:00 CEST) where our website will be unavailable. — It’s been a while … Continue reading

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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…

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When IT Monitoring saves you money

We, as a developer of IT monitoring software are aware of all the great benefits that can be achieved with a competent IT monitoring solution that is set up properly and that is used pro actively. The proactive approach to … Continue reading

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Upcoming features in Ninja

The work with Ninja continues. Just thought I should provide a brief update on what’s happening with Ninja by highlighting some of the new features that has been implemented lately: Apache authentication driver Authentication fallback Saved searches NOC master template

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Ninja 1.1.2

Ninja 1.1.1 is now stable and available for download. It is to be considered a maintenance release but with a strong focus on performance. The performance affects mainly the host/service group pages but the entire Ninja interface is now substantially faster. The main … Continue reading

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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

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