TweetIn the words of Victor Kennedy, Director of Talladega County 9-1-1, “Networks don’t get more mission-critical than emergency communications.” In November 2009 Talladega consolidated all of their call and dispatch services for 5 law enforcement agencies, 4 fire departments, 3 emergency medical services and 4 other private services into a single communications network, covering 760 [...]
TweetAvailable as of January, 18, WhatsConnected 3.0 and WhatsUp Gold 14.4 deliver the dynamic, robust and secure IT management you’ve come to know from Ipswitch. WhatsConnected 3.0 – It will discover, map, inventory and document your network and port-to-port connectivity quickly and efficiently in a matter of minutes. And with new auto-discovery, dynamic mapping and [...]
TweetIn wrapping up 2010, Time’s Techland issued a list of their Top 25 Tech Fails of the Year. We thought it was an interesting read and we picked a few of our favorites. First off, and even more relevant with the recent announcement of the iPhone coming to Verizon in February, Consumer Reports names AT&T [...]
TweetYou may have noticed some of our banner ads springing up (look on the left-hand side of the screen) for the Planting Trees for Our Friends promotion. Since kicking off this initiave in December, we’ve been really energized with the response rate. As a result we are excited to make a donation to Trees for [...]
TweetDid you know that you can extend performance tools’ uses to include systems management? It may not seem intuitive, at first glance, to consider performance management tools as useful for security management tasks. In fact, many administrators’ knowledge of performance management is limited to the built-in Windows Task Manager or the free Process Monitor tool [...]
TweetSoftware as a Service (SaaS) Ennio Carboni shares more of his thoughts for 2011. Continuing with the theme of rapid network growth, 2011 could present more challenges. An increasing number of enterprises are now using a variety of SaaS applications from multiple vendors, procured and deployed without participation from IT, creating a slew of management [...]
TweetWe are honored and excited to be named a CDW Partner of the Year as part of their fourth annual awards ceremony in Las Vegas. This award honors CDW partners that offer exceptional products, programs and support to CDW and its customers. It also accounts for the growth of partner sales through CDW as well [...]
TweetIT Automation Each year sees an increase in the amount of IT tasks and operations that can be automated. 2011 will be no different, according to Ennio Carboni: As the number of networked devices inside and outside the enterprise continue to explode – both in infrastructure (e.g. routers, switches and systems infrastructure supporting video, and [...]
TweetMobile Computing Here are two more predictions from Ennio Carboni, the Ipswitch Network Management Division president, on another blossoming area of technology in 2011: mobile computing. 2010 witnessed the release of multiple versions of the tablet computer. Although netbooks have been around for a few years now, they continue to remain popular due to their [...]
TweetAs the year comes to a close its always refreshing to look at where we have been and where we are heading. What better way to gain accurate insight into the industry than going straight to the source? Ennio will share some of his predictions for 2011 in technology with a multi-part blog series. Virtualization [...]