Ennio Carboni

Ennio Carboni has written 22 posts for WhatsUp Gold: Daily Network Monitor Blog

Exciting Announcement: New Addition to the WhatsUp Gold Family

TweetAs President of the Ipswitch Network Management Division, I am thrilled to announce a new addition to the WhatsUp Gold family: iOpus Software, a leading provider of Web application performance testing and monitoring solutions from the cloud. With this acquisition, Ipswitch’s market leading and affordable IT Management solutions will now extend to every layer of [...]

Customer and Employees Learn Best By Example

TweetBy Ennio Carboni, President, Network Management Division What does it mean to run a company with strong values? How does a commitment to “do the right thing” as it’s applied to employees, customers, and other stakeholders affect an organization’s daily decision making? I found out yesterday. For the past eighteen months, the R&D super men [...]

What Wall Street Does Not See

TweetIt is likely my own employees will approach me with confused expressions and ask why I would take time to defend Solarwinds’ earning announcement yesterday. My product management and development teams can point to the deliberate design differences WhatsUp Gold is built with that make it more usable than Orion and my sales staff will [...]

MSP’s can Learn from Trout Recovery Programs

Last week I attended a webinar for curiosity reasons and this Big 3 MSP provider claimed that ISV’s like Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold and SolarWinds had abandoned the SMB and mid-market and the only choice the SMB market would have over the next year is an MSP based offering. Further he said the SMB business would be in danger of extinction because of the lack of products and services available to manage the SMB network. He said, “The only way small and medium businesses that rely on the internet for business will stay in business are to take a lifeline from an experienced MSP provider who can monitor and manage their assets and applications.

IT Management Made Simple: A Success Story

Tweet When we first started speaking with Don Markese, Technology Director of Freehold, New Jersey’s Freehold Regional High School District (FRHSD), his network was “more or less a mess.” His words, not ours. The FRHSD was decentralized, making it a real challenge for Markese and his team to manage. Adding to that challenge was the [...]

Customer Feedback: WhatsUp Gold Has the Power to Stop Your Phone’s from Ringing

Tweet As President of Ipswitch Inc.’s Network Management division I have had the opportunity to speak with many of our customers about their experience using WhatsUp Gold. Now, because WhatsUp Gold can be deployed and utilized in a variety of ways, each new story I hear varies from the last. But I have noticed a [...]

An Open Letter from Ennio

Tweet I am one of the luckiest guys in the world.   I have a great family and specifically, a great wife who after five years, is starting to understand my obsession with the network management space.  I work for a company I like and most importantly, respect.  As President I have the opportunity to talk [...]

Sinking Dollar Can Mean Rising Software Sales Overseas

TweetAs Americans, we rarely live without the goods and services we desire. For years, we have heard experts like Alan Greenspan warn that when countries outside of the United States see rapid growing living standards; their currencies will appreciate against ours in parallel. For those of you who are Warren Buffet fans, he was right [...]

Contradictions

TweetI had them all with me tonight – Information Week, CIO, Redmond, eWeek and Network World. Not surprisingly, the world of technology continues to be a world of contradictions and that’s a good thing. Ever since we all witnessed the battles on the airwaves 10 years ago between Cisco (promoting the paperless office) and Xerox [...]

Simple yet Effective

TweetI often debate with friends in the IT industry on the merits of chasing business in the SMB. Lots of friends agree that the growth in the SMB sector continues to be strong but they argue that re-designing existing products for SMB’s has proven to be less than a profitable venture. I disagree with the [...]

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