Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category

GroundWork Monitor 5.3 Now Released

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

GroundWork Monitor 5.3 for Community Edition, Professional and Enterprise are now available to download. We've already had thousands of downloads of the new release in the last two days! If you haven't installed it yet - we hope you try it now. Get 5.3 Community Edition here: > http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/downloads/ Get 5.3 Professional or ...

Upcoming Webcast: GroundWork Monitor - What’s New in 5.3

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Hundreds of customers worldwide have successfully implemented GroundWork Monitor and realized immense cost-savings and productivity gains and can now spend their time providing better services to users instead of reacting to emergencies. "We're now able to see more performance metrics, including statistics on the application layer, and in a graphical format. ...

Gartner Advises Customers Look at Open Source Management

Friday, January 30th, 2009

In a recent report entitled "How to Determine Whether You Can Afford More Infrastructure Risk", Gartner ID Number G00163163, Gartner analysts Cameron Haight and Raymond Paquet advise that customers look at open source management products (and coined a new acronym, OSM) in a tightening economic environment. In this paper, Gartner compares ...

Anti-Spam Monitoring by Roaring Penguin and GroundWork

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Today, Roaring Penguin announced the ability to integrate with GroundWork Monitor to allow for easier monitoring of their anti-spam appliance, CanIt-SPE. Service providers can now access detailed information about the availability, health and performance of the email infrastructure, enabling proactive, timely maintenance while reducing downtime and operating costs. GroundWork and Roaring ...

Introducing GroundWork And…Open Source Windows Monitoring

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

By Dave Lilly Co-founder and CEO GroundWork Open Source Monitoring is a complex technical subject. Done right, it is embedded in best practices for IT Service Management business processes, personnel training and qualification as well as a pragmatic approach to monitoring system design and coverage which has long been a hallmark of ...

Ganglia to Present at BAYLISA on 11/20

Monday, November 17th, 2008

This month's BAYLISA meeting is themed monitoring. Ganglia and GroundWork have been invited to present at Thursday's meeting. Bernard Li, core developer on the Ganglia project will present Ganglia's real time performance monitoring for grids and clusters. Dave Lilly, CEO & co-founder of GroundWork Open Source will introduce Bernard and ...