Are you ready for the Holidays?
What gifts will people buy this Christmas? And what will they eat and drink? This Site24x7 infographic uses Neilsen's annual spending forecast to reveal shopping predictions for the holiday season. We also include a few sales-boosting tactics to help online merchants increase trade. Happy Holidays!
What Superman and data centers have in common.
With the ability to send data at lightning speed, the power to maintain high levels of uptime and strength to protect innocent people from becoming victims of cyber crimes, some data centers are similar to~superheroes in their commitment to creating a better, cleaner and fairer world. Here are a few of their must-have qualities: #1. High Tech Cooling Creating energy saving methods that are inspired by the natural environment is high on the agenda for world class data centers. In a shift away from
Website Fiascos & Lessons Learned: Part 2 - Datacenter Monitoring
37% of IT teams learn of issues too late - when business users tell them (TRAC Research). To help you identify Web performance issues much faster, we focused our first blog~on proactive Web performance monitoring from your users’ perspective as your first line of defense. Lets’ continue the discussion this week by reviewing some recent Website fiascos and root-cause. April - Government websites~down.~The problem? A server glitch Sept 20~- Glitch on bank's trading website~ CommSec. The problem? A
From Clicks to Bricks: The Future of Retail
The~sword of damocles~has hung over~the future of high street retail for years,~with~doomsayers predicting the end of physical stores. But an emerging trend labelled “clicks to bricks” or “e-tail to retail” looks set to revive high streets as online retailers cash in on the~touchy feely~and other~benefits~of a physical store,~which include: #1~Shopping as~theatre Online retail may save you time, grief and gas money but physical shopping provides an interactive experience that can’t be replicated
Gain new levels of insight with DCIM
Once upon a time not so long ago having the right data center management tools and team was enough for any data center. Today it’s a different story. Increased automation and rapid growth in compute and storage is changing data center management. Add to that the increasing number of organisations storing applications and data through leased or co-lo facilities, SaaS and managed services, and it’s no surprise many companies are recognizing the value of data center infrastructure management (DCIM).
Website Fiascos & Lessons Learned
If you have been reading the news (or following us on Twitter @Site24x7) you may have noticed some recent high-visible Website fiascos. Let’s take a closer look. September 17th: United honors free fares granted in #Website glitch.~The problem? Details are sparse, but many people received practically free tickets for just the price of the security fee. September 18th - Abercrombie #Website glitch. The problem? Their shopping cart was returning a “$0.00” total cost -- a problem ONLY when shoppers added
Meet Next Gen Site24x7: Powerful, Agile, Cost-Effective IT Management as-a-Service
A few months back at Velocity Conference, we announced the application performance monitoring capabilities of Site24x7. This announcement was big for us because we bring expertise gained from the ManageEngine on-premise products into our SaaS solution
Site24x7 Monitors Web Applications from a Real Browser
Site24x7 has just released~a feature that enables you to monitor web applications by using a real browser.~The~web application (real browser) monitor helps you~measure~end-user experience~in real time by using a robust recorder tool. The recorder captures the steps in a web transaction and plays~them~back via real browser (Firefox). And all this comes without any scripting! Site24x7~web application (real browser)~proactively measures end-user experience by monitoring the availability, response times,
Web hosting horror stories
Forget Halloween tales of zombies and black cats, for many businesses there’s nothing scarier than finding your website’s often down or has been hacked. Frequently leading to lost productivity, reduced revenue and reputational damage,~web hosting problems can cause SMEs and big businesses all manner of hubble, bubble, toil and trouble. Here are 4 common~ disasters every business wants to avoid: #1 Outage Uptime is critical for any company, but for a company such as Amazon that processes hundreds
Follow @Site24x7 and Snag an iPad mini!
Can following someone on Twitter catapult you into the ranks of the technology elite? It can if it makes you the proud owner of an iPad mini. And if you follow @Site24x7, you might just win a 16GB Apple iPad mini with Wi-Fi! To enter our contest, you'll need to follow us at @Site24x7. If you already follow us, simply retweet our messages with the contest tag #Site24x7contestNov2013. The contest closes on November 10, 2013, at 10 a.m. EST, so what are you waiting for? It may never get simpler or easier
Cloud and DevOps- Rules of Engagement
As organizations are seeking to increase quality and agility in order to expedite application delivery, decrease time to market, provide optimal user experience and, thus maximize revenue, they are adopting (or at least exploring) cloud computing and DevOps software development methodology. According to a recent Vanson Bourne survey, 39% of IT teams had adopted some form of DevOps, and 27% were planning to do so in the near future. If you are 1 in 6 IT managers not really sure what the term DevOps
Colocation: your go-to location for your servers?
Popular with private enterprises for disaster recovery and in reducing capital expenditure, colocation~(colo) is~becoming increasingly popular~with cloud service providers. According to IMS Research, the North American colocation sector generated $6.5 billion in revenue in 2012, and is expected to grow to $10 billion by 2017, begging the question: “should your company be using colocation?”. And if so, why? 6 ways you can benefit from colocation: #1 Cost Every business looks for ways to reduce costs.
Are you a "cloud-ready" IT worker?
At a time when much of the global jobs market is painfully contracting, one~field is bucking the trend. According to a study by market intelligence firm IDC, almost 1.7 million cloud-related jobs were unfilled in 2012. Demand for “cloud-ready” IT workers is also likely to grow 26% annually through to 2015. While training and certification programs~are helping to meet this shortage, many employees are having to quickly develop their cloud-based skills at work.~With this in mind, here are 5 ways~IT
10 ecommerce conversion tactics
In the hyper-competitive world of ecommerce, a pretty interface only goes so far. Your landing page, your homepage and every subsequent page needs to be user friendly. It needs substance. And above all it needs to convert visits into sales. But if you find shopping carts are being aborted, and bounce rates are high, one or more of these reasons may be why. #1 Know your customers Understanding your customer base is the founding principle of marketing. Without knowing your target audience you can’t
Give people what they want. Survey them.
“Give people what they want”. It’s the title of a 1981 Kinks album, a well used business expression and phrase further popularised by Oscar award-winning actor Kevin Spacey in his recent speech at Edinburgh Television Festival. But unless you know what people want or don’t want, it’s fair to say you can’t really meet their needs. That said, surveys can be a great way to get closer to your customers and to find out what they really think. Taking the form of online surveys, telephone and in-person
Service Experienced Network Problems
Our main data center experienced a network hardware issue that affected our service. This affected our ability to monitor websites and~our customers could not login to the Site24x7 portal. The service disruption occurred between 14:30 PST and 18:32 PST. We sincerely apologize for the service disruption.~We will get back to you with more updates on this incident in this blog. Update Sep 30 6:18 AM PST ~: Please view more info~about this outage in the Zoho services blog. Gibu
Choosing the right AWS instance for your needs.
Amazon Web Service (AWS) has helped transform the business landscape. Where once many businesses were restricted by their hardware and resource capabilities, AWS and other cloud platform providers have helped remove the shackles inhibiting businesses and facilitate growth. Despite the seeming simplicity and clear advantages of~ cloud monitoring and cloud computing however, reaping its benefits requires thought. Knowing how much RAM and CPU power the server you’re using has, the region the server
Effectively Moving/Managing Your Apps. in the Cloud: 5 Things to Do
If the cloud is not already part of your current IT initiatives, it is definitively coming your way. According to Gartner, the public cloud services market is forecast to grow 18.5% in 2013 and total a whooping $131 billion worldwide. As you get ready for the cloud, or already running there in full speed, here are 5 things you should do to ensure peak performance of your cloud-based applications. DO #1: Don't rush Many organizations begin their cloud journey with no clear requirements or measurable
Server-side Monitoring Tips to Ensure Optimal Web Performance
An overloaded Web server? Your users might get a "503 Service~ Unavailable" error A slow database connection? Your users might get a "502 Bad Gateway " message A saturated application server? Your users~ might get a "500 Internal~ Server Error" Don't wait to realize that you don't have enough infrastructure capacity until is too late and Web transactions and requests cannot be completed.~~ Ensuring high-performing Websites and optimal users' experience starts with a healthy, reliable and top-performing
Are you slacking in your SLA monitoring?
Anyone familiar with British comedy will recall Basil Fawlty, the terse, rude hotel proprietor of sitcom Fawlty Towers. While Basil became a symbol of frustrated, middle-class England, Fawlty continues to serve as a comedic reminder of how not to do business. Providing a service your customers can’t live without~(rather than a Fawlty-esque one they never want to re-use)~doesn’t just mean~having robust measures in place to ensure customer expectations are met. It also means setting expectations right
5 common data center outage problems
It may be good to learn from our own mistakes but it’s certainly cheaper and less stressful to learn from other people’s blunders, bungles and gaffes. With this in mind here are 5 of the most common outage problems to affect companies in recent years.
Image editing tools every writer needs.
Once upon a time writers only wrote and designers only designed, but the rise of digital media means those boundaries have blurred. Writers, especially those working in the blogosphere and managing social accounts increasingly need to undertake basic design and image manipulation as part of their day-to-day job. This selection of image editing tools will help you respond to the rise of visual social media popularised by sites such as Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram. 1/ Ribbit [Free] Best for: Desktop
Put your Exchange Servers woes to rest 24x7!
“The Exchange Server is down!”~Doesn't~the very mention of this send shivers down your spine? We understand the critical role the Exchange Server plays in your business and how any downtime can be nothing less than a nightmare. Is it really as bad as it sounds? Exchange Server downtime can impact business operations, this can get further complicated when the IT admins struggle to pin point why or where the slowdown occurred. An ideal way to address downtime concerns is to start the resolution at
Do's and Don'ts to Ace Your APM Strategy
Moving to the cloud? A cloud-based architecture will add an extra layer of complexity and management challenges, since there will be additional potential points of failure and bottlenecks outside your control. Dealing with new infrastructure or 3rd party service providers? They could slowdown your Website. Adopting an Agile development cycle to increase deployment speed? Now that testing cycles are more rapid than ever, you may release buggier code. Rolling out a new application or new functionality?
Scheduled Maintenance on Aug 31, 2013
Keeping up with the tremendous growth Zoho Corp. (the company behind Site24x7) has had~means we need to scale up our infrastructure periodically. As part of this, we are planning one such infrastructure upgrade in our primary data center on~Saturday, Aug 31, 2013 between 10 am PDT and 10 pm PDT. We have planned it in such a way that there is minimal disruption of service during the scheduled maintenance period. If you recollect, our operation early this week was a prelude to this activity. During
Site24x7 Launches Hybrid, Public Cloud Monitoring at VMworld 2013
VMworld 2013 — SAN FRANCISCO and PLEASANTON, Calif. — August 26, 2013 —Site24x7, the cloud infrastructure monitoring service from~ManageEngine, today announced the launch of monitoring support for hybrid and public cloud environments. The new capabilities let users monitor VMware vSphere� hypervisor as well as Amazon EC2 and RDS web services. Users can now optimize the uptime and performance of their private, public and hybrid cloud environments from a central Site24x7 console. Click here to read
Operation planned to test our disaster recovery readiness
Update: Aug 27 : 10:53 AM PST~- We experienced an outage in our service today when we tried to shift back to our main data center from our disaster recovery site. It occurred between 8:29 AM to 9:14 AM PDT due to a database replication race condition. Additionally customers using Server monitoring would have received false positives. We are in the process of refunding the monitoring credits. We apologize for the inconvenience. We have planned to test the readiness of our disaster recovery (DR) process
3 SMB benefits of taking to the cloud
With the holiday season in full swing and air traffic at its peak, we ask is the sky the limit for SMBs that take to the cloud?~Here are~three ways in which research is showing us that cloud computing can and is transforming the lives of SMBs. #1 Security and privacy With the recent news that just one hacking ring stole US $300 million from US companies, and with 800,000 laptops going astray in airports~ each year,~computers and servers are vulnerable pieces of kit.~With a growing number of employees
The secret to building a killer Web Performance Monitoring strategy
Synthetic Web performance monitoring (where agents deployed in multiple locations simulate end-users and continuously report back on health, availability and performance) is a great way to find and resolve problems before large volumes of users are impacted. Building a killer Web performance monitoring strategy (could include~monitoring Java applications,~.NET application monitoring~or~Ruby on Rails monitoring)~requires proper planning, cross-functional alignment and a dose of diplomacy to build
What Pompeii teaches us about Disaster Recovery Plans
It is almost 1934 years ago to the day that Mount Vesuvius first erupted, causing catastrophic damage to the city of Pompeii. While few disasters compare to the wrath Mount Vesuvius cast on its unsuspecting residents, it serves as a constant reminder that unexpected dangers are everywhere and that businesses should be prepared. While protecting against man-made and natural disasters including earthquakes, floods and IT mistakes may not save you from being buried under ashes, it can be the difference
Headline: Tech trends making the headlines
With Autumn on its way and London Fashion Week about to tell us what some of us will be wearing next year it got us thinking about which technology trends will continue to take the world by storm over the next 12 months. Some of these have been simmering for a long time and have risen phoenix-like in 2013, strutting their digital tailfeathers~to change the way we do business and IT. That said, we have announced our support last month for Java Application Monitoring, .Net Application Monitoring and
Customer Testimonial: Erik, Director of Operations, Penso Technologia
The recently concluded Cloud Computing Expo brought a lot of footfalls to our booth and we had the pleasure to meet some of our loyal customers. It was rewarding to hear from the actual users how our services have helped in~ monitoring resources and reducing complexity in the process. One appreciative customer we~caught up~with was Mr.~Erik de Lopes Morais. Erik, is the Director of Operations with~Penso Technologia, a large service provider in Brazil. He~ shared his experience on how~Site24x7~simplifies
5 tools every small business owner needs
The classic line “if you build it, they will come” from the fantasy-drama Field of Dreams doesn’t work in the digital space. Unlike the film in which the protagonist builds a popular baseball diamond in the middle of nowhere, building a great site is only one part of the battle. The other is getting it seen. For webmasters, community managers and digital marketers, this means identifying the most effective platforms and resources for your brand given your time, budgetary and manpower constraints.
Stop an intruder from hacking your site
Type ‘prevent my site from being hacked’ into Google and you’ll see roughly 5,790,000 results. Conversely, a quick search for ‘my site has been hacked’ reveals~nearly 9 times that number. While this doesn’t tell us how many people searched for these phrases
'Resolve IP Address from Domain's Name Server' Gives You Control Over Your Name Server Resolution
As a service committed to ensuring the uptime of your websites across the globe, we at Site24x7 ensure that monitoring your websites is not affected by any temporary network glitches on our part. Be assured that we have taken sufficient steps to avoid this problem with the functionality 'Resolve IP address from domain's name server.' So, what exactly does 'Resolve IP address from domain's name server' do? Before we elaborate on this functionality, here is a brief description of how monitoring takes
Happy System Administrators Day from Site24x7
So, it's that time of the year again when you are treated nothing less than a hero, when your phone rings not to receive~complaints but to wish you "Happy System Administrators Day". Yes, it's 26th of July again and it's your day~to sit back, relax and get~pampered. It's your day to P-A-R-T-Y. We,~at~Site24x7, truly understand the importance of being a system administrator~and have always strived to make your tasks a little easier. That's why we brought to you great set of~Free Tools~that you can
Automate your tasks with Zapier, and you start living!
Do you wish to do some custom actions to improve business processes when your website goes down? And, are you finding it difficult to write programs for that? Site24x7 integration with Zapier may be the solution to your problems. Zapier makes it easy to sync data between web services. It is a tool that acts as a bridge and allows you to automate about 212 web services on a single platform. Gone are the days when you paid developers heavily to make two critical services work together. With Zapier,
Beta Announcement: Site24x7 releases Web Application monitoring using Real Browser
Today’s~businesses rely~heavily on~end-user experience~and~it becomes all that more~critical~for business owners~to monitor~their~application response times from a global perspective.~Any lag in the performance of your web applications can result in loss of revenue and goodwill.~With the release of~Site24x7’s~brand new feature,~Web Application (Real Browser)~monitor, the issue of losing revenue~due to a~discarded~e-business transaction is taken care of. Read along to find out more. What is Web Application
Royal baby names and domain names
With royal baby watching reaching fever pitch worldwide, the subject of naming is never far from people’s mind. Always a contentious issue (for anyone that saw former UK Apprentice star Katie Hopkins talk about name on The Wright Stuff1, you’ll know what we mean), names are as important as gender - and more so. Having a name that’s difficult to pronounce, spell (think Kal-El Cage, son of Nicholas Cage) or that has bad associations can lead to a lifetime of problems. The wrong name can also be particularly
Site24x7 APM Insight - Grab the iPad contest
We, at Site24x7 believe that with great monitoring capabilities come greater rewards! So, here's the~Site24x7 -~Grab the iPad~contest~for you. All that you need to do is simply try~out our new feature~and grab your reward.~Getting excited already? Hold on; we are just getting started! Just~sign up~for Site24x7~APM Insight,~monitor a few Java or .NET applications, and~you stand to win a super cool~Wi-Fi enabled, 32-GB Apple iPad with Retina display. Site24x7 APM Insight -~A sneak peek Using the Site24x7
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