Ever try to fix a network problem with a blindfold on? Do you wonder why users are complaining about crashes and shoddy performance without knowing where to look? This sorry state is because you can’t SEE the network, which makes it murder to DO anything about it.

At Progress, we understand the challenges faced by IT teams in maintaining operational networks. Everything we do is to best serve those tasked with maintaining more seamless operations for an entire environment including network systems, servers, applications and services. We want to confirm that the greenest, first-day sysadmin can sit down in front of a product like Progress WhatsUp Gold and figure out how to use it in minutes.

G2 software reviews are not your traditional take on a product, where they put it in a lab or, more likely, someone’s home office and see how it goes. No, G2 reviews are driven by actual users who have put the tool through its paces and generally rely on it every day. That’s why being chosen as a leader in the G2 Grid® Report for Network Monitoring Tools report is such an honor – because G2 didn’t choose WhatsUp Gold, you did!

Network monitoring is perhaps the most indispensable tool in a network professional’s toolbox because it offers a deep understanding of IT infrastructure. Many IT pros use network monitoring daily the same way a teenager stares for hours at TikTok. Progress WhatsUp Gold has been making IT lives easier since its beta release in 1996. Here are the ten most popular how-to videos to help you make the most out of WhatsUp Gold.

Active Directory (AD) is in many ways the lifeblood of your network, especially in terms of user and identity management. AD has become the core directory service for most enterprises, keeping track of users and IT assets, allowing all these to be identified and manipulated. Because Active Directory houses all these identities and logs the enterprise’s IT assets, IT can spot breaches and abnormal behavior through this directory data.

Quality of service (QoS), in network and telephony, parlance has both specific and less precise but more practical meanings. In general, quality of service can be viewed as measuring the performance of a network or telephone service, thereby providing an indication of its quality.

A network key performance indicator (KPI) is a measurement and a benchmark to achieve optimal network performance goals. To support these goals, measuring actual performance against the KPI goals helps the network team make decisions to improve and sustain network performance and service levels and meet the KPI objective.

In the early 90s, it was easier—and more affordable—to register a domain name with the same as a company’s. Now, it requires other services to register it and keep it from potential competitors. Despite the process change, registering a domain name is still one of the most crucial aspects of supporting a business online. This blog details the behind-the-scenes processes on how domain names become accessible content to users, starting with what a Domain Name System (DNS) is.

The vast majority of IT infrastructure problems relate to the network. Afterall, most of IT infrastructure IS the network. Makes sense. But its immensity and complexity make the network a bear to troubleshoot and root cause analysis as tricky as finding the proverbial needle in the network haystack.

Network downtime is no fun for anyone. End users (tied to their computing devices) don’t know what to do, customers and partners can’t do business with you and IT pulls out more hair than a barber shop floor. Network downtime leads to lost productivity, business and precious IT time. Here are a few uptime facts to consider: The answer to all these ills is to avoid network downtime in the first place by ensuring the opposite: network uptime.