Bring Your own Device (BYOD) schemes are all the same? Right? Well no not really. There are essentially 2 different types of scheme. The first type is where an organisation lets their employees or students bring their laptops or (more likely) mobile devices to work or college and allows them to attach to the corporate […]
The IBM Tivoli Log File Agent is the latest incarnation of the Netcool/OMNIbus LogFile Agent. It is based on ITM autonomous agent technology and is designed to monitor text log files, Windows Event Logs and the UNIX/Linus syslog using both traditional ACP format files plus regular expressions. This article was originally written by Simon Barnes […]
IT security departments have recently been doing pretty good impressions of King Canute trying to hold back the waves of personal devices that are being brought into office environments. Whether you have an official Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiative or not employees are bringing their iPads, iPhones, Android devices and even laptops to work […]
I was in the Orb data office the other day and had a conversation with some Orb Data colleagues about Performance and Application Monitoring and one of them (let’s call him Miles) was wondering why companies would buy a product such as IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) as opposed to Nagios or other similar open source […]
I’ve just read an excellent book by Robert Harris called the Fear Index. In the book a computer scientist called Dr Alex Hoffmann has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that tracks human emotions via internet news feeds , enabling it to predict movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. In the story […]