Category: Power Admin
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PA Storage Monitor version 6 Beta!
PA Storage Monitor version 6 has entered Beta! Exciting new features in version 6 include: Monitor template support PagerDuty alert action Desktop notification widget Configurable charts with configurable scaling Icons for servers and groups Dynamic server lists and groups based on server properties and more… You can find more information here. The PA […]
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PA File Sight version 6 Beta!
PA File Sight version 6 is now in Beta! For those not yet in the know, PA File Sight tracks who is accessing files on a Windows server. Lots of software can tell you who created or saved a file. Almost no products can tell you who is reading from a while, or who deleted […]
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Simulating a Large Network
We live, eat, breathe and love monitoring here at Power Admin. So we’re always looking for ways to improve. One way is to scale our software to handle ever increasing loads. Some of our larger customers (the largest anti-virus and computer security software company in America which starts with ‘Sym’ and ends with […]
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Dilbert’s take on Network Monitoring Software
DILBERT © 2012 Scott Adams. Used By permission of UNIVERSAL UCLICK. All rights reserved. Given that Dilbert said this in 2012, his stance is that good network monitoring software takes a solid 28 man-years to create. Joel Spolsky famously said “good software takes ten years”. We tend to agree. PA Server Monitor is now more than 11 years old, […]
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Top 5 Best TV Shows for Geeks
See that screen over there? No, not that one that you spend all day every day staring into; writing blogs, surfing the web or playing games on; the other one. You may be thinking, “Why would I be interested in that old passive box? What could it possibly offer me, when I could be spending […]
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Types of Network Monitoring Applications
Information security is a big ticket issue for organizations, as sensitive data represents a gold mine for cyber criminals. Data breaches cost companies an average of $3.5 million in 2014, according to an IBM study. Another major risk for companies is network downtime. This costs companies up to $5,600 per minute, according to a Gartner survey. There’s no […]
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Top Priorities for IT in 2015
As organizations continue the trend of transforming physical processes and business models into digital ones, it’s worth having a look at those issues that will vex or focus the minds of IT divisions and Chief Information Officers (CIOs) in the coming year. Broad Strategic Moves Every year in the US, the National Association of State […]
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LinkedIn Feature: The Cost Of Downtime
Hello All! Now, because we know that you simply cannot get enough of the superlative content that we regularly produce for you here on our blog at PowerAdmin, we thought that we’d create some more for you lucky people. And so, starting today (February 11th 2015), we are posting up a very special extended 3-part […]
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New Monthly Featured Customer – Sauder
We’d like to kick off our featured customer blog post this month with one of our favorite customers, Sauder Woodworking Co. Located in Archbold, OH, Sauder was established in 1934, and has grown into North America’s leading producer of ready-to-assemble (RTA) furniture, and the nation’s fifth largest residential furniture manufacturer. Pro-actively monitoring their network is […]
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KC Royals and “Small Ball” Baseball
Being KC Royals fans, we got a little weary of the media and sports announcers constantly talking about how the Royals play “small ball” and hinting that it is some lower form of baseball. So we created this to show how we feel about it!