As you know, Monitor.Us has undergone a serious upgrade last month, adding more functionality and pushing the barriers of what’s possible with our free tool. Earlier this month we ran a webinar, explaining what’s new in the brand new Monitor.Us. Here is the full screencast of the webinar. Find out what’s new in the upgraded [...]

Dear Monitor.Us Community, Welcome to a new era in IT monitoring! Building on what is already the world’s favorite free, all-in-one IT monitoring SaaS, today, we at Monitor.Us have radically revolutionized the industry.  We are now offering nearly everything that is available in our paid product, Monitis, in our free product, Monitor.Us. Jam-packed with 77 [...]

As long as there are websites, there will be a need for website monitoring services. How well the reseller does is dependent on his/her ability to show his/her clients the value of using the monitoring service that he/she is offering. It is important that the reseller has a thorough understanding of the nature and value [...]

Dear Readers, Since 2006, when we created one of the first Cloud-based IT systems monitoring suites, we’ve liberated nearly 100,000 registered users from the shackles of software-based monitoring.  In the process Monitor.Us has become the world’s favorite free, all-in-one, IT monitoring SaaS. But we are not standing still!  We’ve been working really hard over the last [...]

Every tool we use on our websites makes us dependent on the creator and supplier of that tool. Examples: If our website uses HTML/CSS, we are dependent on the World-Wide Web Consortium. If our website uses PHP, we are dependent on The PHP Group. If our website uses Red Hat Linux, we are dependent on [...]

Synthetic monitoring of end-users transactions and actions on a website is the latest in development tools used by many web or online businesses. In the past businesses relied on customer or end-user experience monitoring to test out their website performance and new features that they introduced. Today many businesses are able to apply synthetic end-user [...]

  Ready for an IT history lesson? First there were mainframes, then client-servers, then the Web and now there is the Cloud. How succinct can you get? This brief history is just one of the things that attracted me to an article about how the Cloud is coming of age. The piece featured a Gartner [...]

Lots of organizations are wary of relying too much on virtualization of computing — that is, creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as a hardware platform, operating system, a storage device or network resources. Some would like to make the switch bit by bit to see how things go — and [...]

I read a great article on Microsoft’s new survey, “Cloud Computing and Sustainability: The Environmental Benefits of Moving to the Cloud.” In that study, Microsoft suggests that large businesses could cut their direct energy consumption and carbon emissions by up to 30% by moving certain on-premise applications into the cloud. From its study, Microsoft found [...]

Jeffrey Orloff in his article How to choose a network management system (May 31, 2006, Computerworld) defines the key features that any network management system must have. As first feature in his list he mentions: “One simple interface: Everything that you need to see should be easily accessible. There should be no need to switch [...]