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9 Best Uptime Monitors: Top Paid and Free Uptime Monitoring Tools

June 1, 2020

Uptime is of critical importance for your company’s networks and systems, alongside its website and web service delivery. It has a direct impact on your company’s ability to support end users and deliver services. Not maintaining high levels of uptime can significantly interfere with a business’s ability to work productively or impact user satisfaction by … Read more 9 Best Uptime Monitors: Top Paid and Free Uptime Monitoring Tools

Best SFTP and SCP Servers

May 29, 2020

Transferring files is a necessary part of business for many companies, which has made File Transfer Protocol (FTP) a popular tool. But while FTP is useful, it’s not very secure and doesn’t support HIPAA compliance or other regulatory requirements. To address this gap, it’s best to use other protocols, such as SFTP or SCP. Both … Read more Best SFTP and SCP Servers

Varonis Competitors and Best Alternatives 2020

May 27, 2020

Varonis DatAdvantage is a specialist software solution designed to aggregate information associated with users, permissions, access events, and data. It gives you visibility into your file system permissions, recommendations, audit information, and modeling, and serves as a base for products that enhance its capabilities. This guide will consider why you might choose an alternative to … Read more Varonis Competitors and Best Alternatives 2020

6 Best SharePoint Tools for Performance and Server Monitoring

May 26, 2020

Microsoft SharePoint is increasingly used by individuals and enterprises around the world to build document and content management systems, and to help organizations communicate through an internal social platform. It’s also useful for creating web applications and can be utilized on its own account as collaborative software. SharePoint is incredibly versatile, and several different components … Read more 6 Best SharePoint Tools for Performance and Server Monitoring

Dameware Tools Review 2020 + New Cloud Support Solution

May 26, 2020

Remote access solutions are incredibly common in enterprise and large business setups, as administrators can quickly and easily resolve support issues or go through troubleshooting without needing to be physically present at the device. There are several remote access solutions on the market, and SolarWinds® Dameware® provides three options to accommodate the full range of … Read more Dameware Tools Review 2020 + New Cloud Support Solution

Best Spiceworks Competitors + Alternatives 2020

May 25, 2020

Having a tool for network and IT management is crucial for IT departments of all sizes. Spiceworks offers a suite of IT management tools that serves as a great free solution. These various tools can be used together to provide a range of functions, including help desk team management, multi-site support, and inventory management. However, … Read more Best Spiceworks Competitors + Alternatives 2020

5 Best Hyper-V Tools for Management and Monitoring in 2020

May 21, 2020

As modern IT networks move away from physical systems and toward virtual ones, administrators have to adapt their monitoring and management processes. Standard network monitoring operations are becoming increasingly obsolete, as businesses adopt Microsoft Hyper-V tools and performance monitoring solutions to keep pace with virtual infrastructure. Hyper-V is in widespread use, with a significant number … Read more 5 Best Hyper-V Tools for Management and Monitoring in 2020

6 Best TFTP Servers

May 19, 2020

The Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a file-transfer protocol suited to the transfer of firmware updates, the movement of system images, and similar tasks requiring functionality over form. TFTP is more lightweight than the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), with a smaller footprint. It’s also faster and easier to implement and configure, particularly when performing … Read more 6 Best TFTP Servers

How to Use nslookup to Check DNS Records and Best Tools to Help Simplify DNS Monitoring

May 18, 2020

One of the most important components of successful internet service is the domain name system (DNS). This is what translates familiar network names into IP addresses machines can read, or IP addresses back to domain names. All web content and internet-based services rely on DNS, which is why you need to be able to easily … Read more How to Use nslookup to Check DNS Records and Best Tools to Help Simplify DNS Monitoring