Sean Barry

Sean Barry has written 80 posts for WhatsUp Gold: Daily Network Monitor Blog

Hot Tech Gifts for the Holidays

TweetShort on gift ideas this year? In light of the season, a few of us with Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold have picked a few of our favorite tech gifts for the 2010 Holiday Season. Up first, our WhatsUp Guru, Jason Williams, shares his picks: Cofee Cup Power Inverter – Being on the road so much, you [...]

Improve Network Performance with Real-time Flow Visibility

TweetYou may have thought you had taken all the right steps in planning the bandwidth requirements for your business. You even went the extra mile and set up Quality of Service (QoS) for high-priority traffic. Still you are faced with complaints that claim site access and critical order uploads are too slow. What is going [...]

WhatsUp Gold v14.4 Technical Preview Program Now Available!

TweetThe Ipswitch, Inc. Network Management Division is excited to announce the public availability of the Technical Preview Program for WhatsUp Gold v14.4 and WhatsConnected v3.0! The Technical Preview Program allows WhatsUp Gold users to experience the latest version of WhatsUp Gold and WhatsConnected before they are released for sale, and your participation will help Ipswitch [...]

Facing Budget Cuts? Need to Do More with Less? Let’s see if we can help with that.

TweetAlthough we are all familiar with budget cuts, this might ring close to home for the UK public sector, where on October 20 the government announced an intense review of public sector spending. However, given the less than ideal state of the international economy, working effectively within budget constraints is no less prevalent worldwide. Our [...]

Smart Network Management Requires Organization and Foresight

TweetThanks to Chris Hampton of Realtime Publishers we have a few tips to make your life as a network admin easier. Through automation and other efficient methods of network management you can make yourself the ultimate resource for network status and configuration knowledge, while at the same time alleviating your stress points. One way to [...]

Event Log Management Best Practices: Automatically Consolidate ell Log Records Centrally (Part 2)

TweetIt’s been awhile since our last post on Event Log Management (ELM) Best Practices, but the issue is no less prevalent. Last time we discussed the necessary categories of events to enable when performing security audits (log on, account log on, object access, process tracking, policy change, account management, directory service access, and system events). [...]

Best Practices in Network Configuration and Change Management

TweetWhen your business is growing so is your network. Even when business isn’t booming (thanks economy) your business’ infrastructure can be evolving too. What you need is a tool that can manage these changes for you. Little known fact: 75% of network outages and performance issues are the result of misconfiguration error. No one wants [...]

New Resource Center Live Now!

TweetNow available on our community site, a new, in-depth resource center! — your home for educational whitepapers, How-to-videos, and new tips and tutorials for the entire WhatsUp Gold platform. Not currently using WhatsUp Gold? – check it out anyway, it has information covering industry trends, Event Log Management for security and compliance, traffic analysis, and [...]

Reduce IT Costs with Quick Deployment and Response Time

TweetIf you can remember, our recent post on Reducing IT Costs through Reduction in Lost Productivity, I’d like to introduce the next post in our best practices for IT cost reduction series. As with any network configuration, you will realize substantial gains in productivity and efficiency when the right network monitoring solution is in place. [...]

Event Log Management Best Practices: Define your Audit Policy Categories (Part 1)

TweetSpeaking of networks as “living entities,” records of all events taking place in your environment are being logged right now into event logs and Syslog files across your servers, workstations and networking devices. Has somebody gained unauthorized to key enterprise information –such as customer credit card data, employees, patient or financial records or others? Is [...]

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