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Comparison: OpenNMS vs Zabbix vs Pandora FMS

Today we bring you a comparison: OpenNMS vs Zabbix vs Pandora FMS. Three titans of open-source software, without a doubt. We will see its main features and we will talk about the business model of each company -free does not necessarily mean for free- and we will summarize with graphic information. Three monitoring solutions that are rather projects: these are software made by companies that share their code with everyone and that can be used -and modified- by anyone.

THE NETWORK IS EVERYTHING: Bmore IT uses Auvik to ensure their clients are always connected.

Bmore IT is a managed service provider based in Gothenburg, Sweden. We're at a LAN party. In essence, everything is all about technology. It's about connecting people together, not only by our interests, but also by technology and by computers. So in essence network is everything.

How One MSP Fuelled Their Business With Firewall as a Service

“Oh, they’ll never pay for that.” It’s a phrase Leigh Wood, the Director of Node IT Solutions, hears a lot from his fellow MSPs. It’s easy to understand why. When you’re used to hearing price push-back on every contract, selling something beyond your basic managed services agreement seems impossible.

Do you really know what a network is? Learn all about it and improve its security

Today, we live in a world in which, the use of new technology is greatly enhancing the ability to communicate with each other. The Internet has been globalized very fast and relationships are continuously changing and evolving in all areas.

Auvik Use Case: Gain Visibility Into the Internet of Things

There seems to be a smart version of everything these days. From coffee machines to aquarium thermometers, if you can think of a device that can benefit from an internet connection, it probably already exists. It’s not really a surprise. The IoT market is on the brink of explosion, as Intel projects 200 billion IoT devices will be added to our networks by 2020, up from 15 billion in 2015. And they’re not all for personal use.

Monitoring Azure Application Gateway with Logz.io

Load balancers play a key component in any cloud-based deployment. By distributing incoming traffic across backend servers or services, load balancers help improve responsiveness and increase the availability of your applications. Monitoring load balancers is important for analyzing traffic patterns and troubleshooting performance and availability issues.

Joe vs. the NetFlow Volcano - SolarWinds Lab Episode #76

Whether you’re curious if flow monitoring might be helpful, or you’ve been coalescing IPFIX streams of network-activity goodness for years, IT’s reliable, old hand has learned a few new tricks. In this episode, Head Geeks™ Patrick Hubbard and Leon Adato are joined by Principal Product Manager for NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, Joe Reves, to revisit the basics and rediscover why network engineers use flow monitoring in the first place.