Resources

Case Study

Greater Media Detroit Stays on Air with Network Monitoring

“InterMapper collects traps and notifies me of any important failures. I’ve tailored its reporting to match the severity of the issue. To say that it has saved the day is an understatement.” - Mike Kernen, Chief Engineer at Greater Media Detroit
Case Study

UBC's Network Goes the Distance with Intermapper

"It's the only monitoring tool we use. We slice and dice the network in many ways using over 100 maps that monitor thousands of devices and Ethernet switches." - Dennis O'Reilly, Senior Network Analyst, University of British Columbia
Case Study

Volvo: The Power to Perform

Volvo UK uses Robot Monitor to drive optimal performance monitoring across two data centers and keep a user community of 11,000 on course for success. See how.
Article

Supporting ITIL Objectives

Many IT organizations are implementing ITIL as a strategy for improving IT Service Management. The ITIL framework provides best practices and structured processes for managing and delivering IT services.
Guide

How to Manage IT Resource Consumption

At an application level with Vityl Capacity Management In this guide, John Miecielica of Metavante, provides a step-by-step example showing how he uses Vityl Capacity Management to analyze IT resource consumption at an application level. This key capability is especially important in today’s environments where multiple applications run on a server or multiple servers might be required to implement...
Guide

Commercial Clusters and Scalability

In this paper we present an introductory analysis of throughput scalability for update intensive workloads (such as measured by the TPC-C or TPC-W benchmarks) and how that scaling is limited by serialization effects in the software-hardware combination that comprises any platform.
Article

IT Service Optimization: Reaching New Heights

Survey Says Chaos Reigns A global survey of more than 300 IT executives, directors and managers revealed that the majority of IT organizations (53%) rank in the chaotic level of IT Service Optimization maturity. That means these organizations lack a consistent process to manage and improve the quality and efficiency of their services and will continue firefighting performance and capacity issues...