Today, most companies rely on a network to run their business. Therefore, if a network fails, a server goes down or an application crashes, a company can suffer a significant loss. In this article, we review five leading open source monitoring tools. Compare each tool based on business benefits, feature set, and price.
Why Select Icinga as an Alternative to Nagios? When it comes to Open Source network and IT monitoring solutions, we see a real benefit in choosing Icinga over Nagios. As you may know, in 2009, a group of Nagios community…
For the last 12-24 months I’ve been saying that open source has finally entered the mainstream. I’m happy to see that Mary Catherine O’Connor’s article entitled Open source: The new normal in enterprise software validates my claim! At Shadow-Soft we have…
Second only to customers, our technology partnerships are extremely important to Shadow-Soft’s integration business. Through the Open Source solutions our partners create, Shadow-Soft empowers our customers to free themselves from vendor lock-in, allowing them to take the power back from…
Every business is at a different place with their monitoring systems. A surprising number of companies have no monitoring at all, while a second group has a monitoring system that they are generally unhappy with. A third group has a…
In the world of containers, there are a growing number of management options available. Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm – and even more complete solutions like OpenShift or EBS. However, when it comes to finding a platform that supports both Docker…
Converged Infrastructure/Reference Architecture solutions have become increasingly popular over the last few years, with many top OEM’s releasing converged offerings out into the marketplace. These converged stacks have proven to be beneficial by reducing the overall time and cost of…
devops journey workshop April 22, 2016 This past Tuesday, I had the pleasure of being invited to a workshop hosted by Shadow-Soft here in Charleston. I had been to a couple of their events in the past, which were mainly…
Our friends at Stack Overflow have posted their developer survey for 2015 and there are a lot of things to learn from this study. Initial takeaways: The top most utilized programming technologies are: Be aware, these percentages indicate what…
Big news from the Red Hat Partner Conference in Orlando, FL. Shadow-Soft has been named Middleware Partner of the Year for Sales Achievement by Red Hat, Inc! We’re honored to receive this award and it validates the hard work and investments…