Securing your network is vital to your organizations livelihood, survival and future. But often, while securing the network, network performance is affected in adverse ways. Finding a happy medium between these two technologies — and very often separate IT departments — is a challenge. In this column, Paul Morville looks at what’s driving the convergence

In one sense, you already have an army of network monitors in your library. Every time something goes wrong, you probably get a few spontaneous alerts from patrons and colleagues. However, if you want preventive information and in­-depth analysis of what’s happening on your network, you need network monitoring software. Why Should You Monitor the

As IT evolves to become more complex, there is one element that continues to increase in importance: network monitoring. As the name suggests, network monitoring involves watching for problems 24/7, but it’s also about maintaining system performance, ensuring availability, and identifying areas for improvement – all critical for the successful running of an organisation. Network

Analyst house Gartner, Inc. recently released their annual Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics. Gartner recognizes that network performance is integral to success in any digital business. They believe that Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics (NPMD) solutions are critical to network visibility, performance issue detection, and root cause analysis. The report is vendor

NPMD (Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics) tools allow for network engineers to understand the performance of applications and infrastructure components via network instrumentation. Additionally, these tools provide insight into the quality of the end user’s experience. The goal of NPMD products is not only to monitor the network components to facilitate outage and degradation resolution,