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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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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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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

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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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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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Pushing logs with NSCA

As you may know op5 monitor recommends a check interval of 5 minutes escalating to once time per minute if a check becomes critical. Running a critical system it may be of interest to have the check intervals being even … Continue reading

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Merlin 1.0.0-beta1

And so it has come. The day when Merlin outgrows its infancy is at hand.

The rite of passage into adulthood was smoother than expected, but not
without minor bumps. As with people, those bumps made the code stronger. Continue reading

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Getting notifications via Growl

At op5 we have a wide verity of client-machines for our employees. At this given time we’ve a good third of each major platform, Windows, Linux and OS X actively running. Being in IT you’ve to be able to support … Continue reading

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op5 Monitor 5.2.0 released!

op5 Monitor 5.2 is about to be released to the public! By the time you read this it’s probably already out there . This release is mostly about our new method for distributed, redundant and load balanced setups but we … Continue reading

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