The observability team in charge of maintaining the health of Goldman Sachs' new digital saving and lending platform Marcus had to quickly stand up a Splunk instance to monitor its logs and establish some key health metrics for its systems as the service quickly scaled.
From turkey hatcheries to prawn farms, users are finding unique ways to use technology to monitor their situations.
We found all four products to be capable network monitoring tools that performed well in our basic tasks such as checking for host availability and measuring bandwidth usage. Beyond the basics, there were quite a few differences in terms of features, granularity and configuration options.
It's not hard to find social media marketing tools these days. It's harder to locate social monitoring utilities, in your price range, that do everything your business needs. These 10 simple social tools can help you monitor campaigns and analyse the metrics to draw actionable insights and demonstrate real ROI.
Wellington’s Capital and Coast District Health Board is seeking an enterprise ICT system monitoring solution.
You can beat internet sabotage. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia did. Several weeks back, I mentioned a 2006 incident in which Con Edison Communications "accidentally hijacked internet connections to investment houses, a bank, Martha Stewart's publishing empire and the New York Daily News." I implied that Martha Stewart was knocked offline. I was wrong.
When the New Zealand Defence Force moved into its new building in Aitken Street in Wellington in March, the IT environment also got a makeover. The new Defence House, which has been designed to reduce energy consumption, houses five separate datacentres and around 900 personnel.
New Zealand’s Honeynet Alliance is offering a free service for webmasters. The local project is part of the global, non-profit Honeynet Project, a research organisation dedicated to improving the security of the internet at no cost to the public.
Virtualisation technology is expected to start moving onto production networks this year and next. How should network managers prepare?
Australian IT managers have come out in support of the use of keylogging software to monitor staff access to customer records after the Australian Department of Human Services’ Centrelink agency admitted it has been undertaking employee surveillance for the past year.
“You have to trust your staff, rather than constrain them with technology"
When I discussed the case of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov two weeks ago (Crypto law misguided), I had no way of knowing that he was going to be granted bail the day after the column appeared in print. Remember, folks, I write this gem a dozen days before you read it, so I can't claim responsibility for getting him sprung.
If you're an IT staffer in the US, it may be time to add a yellow sticky to your monitor. No, not another password, but the phone number of your company's in-house lawyer.