Webcasts

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Select any of our pre-recorded webcasts and register to watch at your convenience.

	Grid and cluster monitoring with Ganglia and GroundWork Join GroundWork and the Ganglia team on a joint webcast and hear about grid and cluster management best practices in large-scale production environments. Hear about the history of Ganglia and the problems Ganglia solves in clustered environments from a few of Ganglia’s lead project contributors. [ register ]
	Using WebInject to Monitor Web Applications and Services WebInject automates testing of web applications and web services. GroundWork Open Source Product Manager Simon Bennett illustrates the power of combining WebInject with GroundWork Monitor to monitor your critical web-facing processes. All aspects of installing, configuring, and getting to your first results are covered --from a simple website testing scenario to putting it all together into a production application dashboard. Download the accompanying PDF document to get up and running quickly with WebInject and GroundWork Monitor. [ register ]
	How to Champion a Commercial Open Source IT Management Solution to Executive Management Join Audrey Rasmussen, analyst at Ptak, Noel and Associates share insight on what Senior IT managers are experiencing today in their software purchasing, including outside influencers such as budget shifts, service level expectations, and heterogeneous environment orchestration which proves vital insight for selling in a new project that’s open source based. [ register ]
	Open Source IT Management - Ready for the Enterprise? Cameron Haight, Research Vice-President in Gartner Research, addresses the hype around Open Source IT Management. Learn how Tim O'Brien, SVP Operations and Information Security at Yodlee, implemented a single unified system to monitor and provide visibility into their entire production IT infrastructure. [ register ]
	Open Source Network Monitoring— What You Need to Consider and How to Get Started Thomas Stocking, co-founder of GroundWork and Technical Evangelist covers the essentials for designing and implementing an Open Source monitoring system. He discusses open source network monitoring innovations and highlights ways in which their functionality is often better than that of their proprietary counterparts. He also addresses the very fine line you have to walk to "right size" your monitoring system - too much data and you're flooded, too little and you miss important information. [ register ]
	Open Source Network Monitoring— How to Implement in Mixed Environments Thomas Stocking, co-founder of GroundWork and Technical Evangelist, provides practical advice on how to implement an open source monitoring system in mixed environments. He walks you through the planning, design, implementation, and calibration phases of a typical GroundWork Monitor Community Edition deployment. He briefly discusses the differences between GroundWork Monitor Community Edition and GroundWork Monitor Professional and covers when you'd want to consider upgrading to GroundWork Monitor Professional. [ register ]
	Professional Monitoring on a Shoe String Budget: Real Life Case Studies Thomas Stocking, co-founder of GroundWork and Technical Evangelist, covers three typical usage scenarios from start to finish: Implementing Distributed Monitoring in a secure environment; Scaling up to multiple data centers using the NSCAfe extension; and Custom UI design and implementation. This is a session on what works, what is valuable, and how to set it up. Examples (without the names) from GroundWork Customers are described and shown, and the cases for cost savings shared. Thomas goes over ways to get the most from your Infrastructure Monitoring system without spending a fortune on software or your time. [ register]