“Configuration management” refers to maintaining the integrity and consistency of hardware and software systems over time. In practice, the phrase is often used to describe configuring servers and automatically deploying them using prewritten scripts. In this article, we review three…
It’s no secret that most organizations use 10+ products to monitor everything from servers and devices to networks, traffic, applications and databases. Not all monitoring tools are the same; some are stronger in certain areas than others. In this article our resident Icinga technician, Jeff Williams, will highlight the areas where Icinga’s open source monitoring tool is strong.
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…
Multi-Cloud is a term used to describe IT infrastructure that uses multiple Public Cloud providers. Given that Cloud offers native redundancy, you may wonder why go that route? In the article below we explore several reasons why a Multi-Cloud provides an…
The container revolution continues to make its way through the IT systems of corporate America – primarily because of the IT system efficiency it enables. While containerization dramatically increases the number of apps you can run on a single operating…
Configuration management has completely changed the landscape regarding how we provision and maintain our working environments. Before, environments were painstakingly configured by hand and what worked in development didn’t always work in production. It could take hours if not days…
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…
What is Swarm? From the Docker Docs: Docker Swarm is native clustering for Docker. It turns a pool of Docker hosts into a single, virtual Docker host. Because Docker Swarm serves the standard Docker API, any tool that already communicates…
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…