As information technology powers most of modern society, ensuring your data center is always functioning is critical to serving the interests of your customers while also keeping your costs in check. As technology usage has surged over the past few years, the strain on data centers has increased, making it critical for data center professiona...

Slow Web applications, timeouts and errors are due, in some cases, to problems on your back-end infrastructure (e.g. an overloaded Web server, a strained DB or a connectivity issue on a mail farm).

With hundreds of performance metrics that IT can track and oversee, there is no surprise that industry studies show that 80% ...

The outlook is bright for companies providing cloud based services and even brighter for IT specialists with cloud computing skills. Research conducted by managed services provider Claranet suggests that 73 per cent of organisations now use some form of cloud services, making cloud knowledge a top asset for any IT pro.

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Despite advances in computing technology, properly tuning your servers is vital to ensuring the success of your company because wasted resources can increase utility costs while also putting your data center under unnecessary strain. Fortunately performance tuning is something you can grasp fairly easily by following a few simple steps. While...

I am hardly a shopaholic, but on occasions, I give in to online shopping. The other day I was on one of those online portals, shopping for my favorite FC merchandise. It all seemed normal, when I tried to add the product to cart and got the message "the product you have selected is currently out of stock. Set an alert so that we can noti...

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Site24x7 launched an Industry-first android app turns Android mobile devices into carrier-specific monitoring locations today. With the new Site24x7 Mobile Network Poller App, you can track the performance and availability of mobile apps, mobi...

Well, another day, another acquisition in the tech world. This time, it's SolarWinds acquiring Pingdom, presumably to participate in the fast growing, cloud-based application performance management market.

But history has proved that great product strategies can't be acquired and acquired product strategies can't be susta...

When it comes to managing your servers, keeping your software up to date is vital for efficient operations of your system. Although always purchasing the latest copies of software isn’t practical for every business, keeping tabs on the latest industry trends is vital to ensuring that you always have a handle on the trends within your in...

As world cup excitement reaches fever pitch, millions of footie fans will be taking to their office computer to stream football live. But while you may be ready for the fun to begin, you may find yourself screaming at your computer rather than cheering on your favourite team if your network isn’t up to the job. Your company may also be ...

Although Amazon is known for its reliability and advanced features, problems and outages can still occur. In a nutshell, Amazon EC2 instances act as virtual servers to run your applications (you can select multiple combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity), so they are the fundamental building blocks for your cl...