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  New engine to power Xangati's performance monitoring product

  The latest version of Cupertino-based Xangati's virtual dashboard product will boast a new performance management engine and the ability to work with eight instances of VMware vCenter, instead of just one.

  By Jon Gold | 15 May, 2012 23:42

  Tags: Xangati, VMware, VM, Virtualization, monitoring, internet, hardware systems, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance, cloud computing

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  From packet inspectors to WAN optimizers, network add-ons are all the rage

  These days, it seems like a dozen new network "extras" - including traffic monitors, packet inspection technologies and management products, to name just a few - are launched every week, all advertising large-scale gains in performance, security and ease of use.

  By Jon Gold | 12 May, 2012 06:33

  Tags: Network management, networking, network, monitoring, management, juniper networks, infrastructure management, HP, add-on

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  Monitoring the key to streamlining efficiencies?

  Effectively monitoring data centres – their systems, applications and servers – can not only help streamline process but also enable quicker responses to failures.

  By Stephanie McDonald | 27 March, 2012 14:38

  Tags: data centres, energy efficiency, green IT, HP, monitoring

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  Smart hat monitors brain waves to watch fatigue levels

  I just read an interesting article in Gizmag, an online technology newsletter, about an unreleased product called the SmartCap from Australian company EdanSafe. The SmartCap is worn as a cap and analyzes brainwaves to ascertain fatigue levels, one obvious use case being to monitor commercial drivers to reduce road accidents.

  By Mark Gibbs | 02 February, 2012 02:25

  Tags: alpha rhythm, brainwaves, driver, EEG, electroencephalogram, fatigue, monitoring, road safety, software

• GPS monitoring and tracking for criminals pledged

  Criminals under supervision and high risk defendants on bail would be subject to GPS monitoring under a Victorian coalition government.

  By AAP | 18 October, 2010 10:23

  Tags: geolocation, GPS, monitoring, tracking

Whitepapers about monitoring

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  5 Best Practices for Achieving Peak Performance in SAP Environments

  Given how deeply businesses rely on their SAP systems, it’s simple to see that maximizing performance and uptime is critical. What’s not so simple is figuring out how to understand, let alone optimize, performance in these complex, dynamic, and interrelated ecosystems. This paper offers five best practices that can help administrators more effectively measure and improve SAP performance.

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  The Top 5 Server Monitoring Battles—and How You Can Win Them

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  Virtual Certainty - Best Practices for Gaining Monitoring Clarity in VMware Environments