Monitoring as SaaS Advantage #46 – always at best practices

Friday, November 2nd, 2012

One of the great things about being a customer of a SaaS delivered monitoring service like LogicMonitor is that they can get best practices in monitoring of all sorts of technologies without having to have an expert in that technology on staff. A recent example when LogicMonitor updated some of the ...

Discovering write latency problems with ESX datastores

Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

Our digs here at LogicMonitor are cozy. Being adjacent to sales, I get to hear our sales engineers work with new customers, and it’s not uncommon that a new customer gets a rude awakening when they first install LogicMonitor. Immediately, LogicMonitor starts showing warnings and alerts.  ”Can this be right ...

Will Hyper-V be Microsoft’s Xbox of the Enterprise Virtualization Space?

Monday, October 22nd, 2012

While most may not see Microsoft as a ‘disruptive innovator’ anymore, they seem to be claiming exactly that role in the enterprise hypervisor space, just as they did in gaming with the Xbox. As noted in "VMware, the bell tolls for thee, and Microsoft is ringing it", Hyper-V appears to ...