Author Archives: Stephen Smith

It’s Raining IT Jobs… Thanks to the Cloud

An IDC study indicated that the cloud could create 14 million new jobs by 2015. Is “cloud” in your next job title and description?  CA Nimsoft cloud support experts took a look at jobs in … Continue reading

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Sobering Facts Support Real-Time Network Management

The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) presents a number of sobering facts about increased data volume and speeds that will impact systems management. With global business IP traffic expected to grow at a compound … Continue reading

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Top 5 Nimsoft Application Monitoring Posts of 2012

From application monitoring to zero outages, we explored some of the more popular IT monitoring topics from 2012. Our year in review produced five selections worth a second look.

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Performance-Enhancing Managed Service Provider Offerings

Changing business imperatives coupled with new technologies and delivery models are driving new opportunities for managed service providers.  The CA Nimsoft MSP experts take a look at several ways IT service providers can capture additional opportunities … Continue reading

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3 Ways Server Monitoring Alleviates “Too Big to Fail”

In an era of big data and big infrastructures, the server role really is too big to fail. Your servers sit at the core of the business applications that are critical to running the business. Although … Continue reading

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Differentiating the Cloud from the Hype

According to Gartner Inc.’s 2012 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, another two to five years and the cloud computing hype will be behind us. Then, as the Gartner Hype Cycle puts it, various aspects of … Continue reading

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Application monitoring: Keeping Business Critical Applications Running Smoothly

As more organizations shift from an “information technology” focus to a “business technology” focus, application monitoring becomes more critical. After all, the stakes are getting higher in application performance, given the high costs of downtime in many industries, … Continue reading

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Nimsoft’s IT Help Desk Flowchart [INFOGRAPHIC]

How does your organization go with the flow? Check out this typical IT help desk flow chart from Nimsoft for escalating issues. This is just one example: IT help desk flow charts can vary greatly in complexity.

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Application Monitoring: A user-centric approach

The availability and uptime requirements of today’s applications is increasingly more demanding as IT environments grow more complex and businesses grow more dependent on applications to drive business results.

Application monitoring is all about the end-user … Continue reading

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Worked to Death: Avoid a Server Monitoring Nightmare

It’s the call in the middle of the night that every system administrator dreads… “Server down.” It’s not that server monitoring is completely neglected, but with today’s server monitoring technologies, we can get a lot more … Continue reading

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