For any IT service provider the service is the business, and assuring it is the first line of customer and revenue protection. Until now mid-sized service providers have had no choice but to resort to a multiplicity of tools and consoles to manage and monitor their services from the application down to the underlying infrastructure.   Some illustrative areas covered by these tools include network monitoring,... read more

Over the last few years, the heightened pace of innovation in service delivery technologies has increased the complexity of IT Operations Management for organizations of all sizes. This problem is particularly acute for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) including regional managed service providers – which have traditionally operated with a lean staff and simpler but silo-based management systems. As long as the technologies they managed... read more

Over the past five years we have witnessed an acceleration of open source software (OSS) adoption by both service provider and enterprises alike. As Gartner stated in a November 2008 report, the primary advantages for customers adopting OSS tools were lower cost of ownership, ease of implementation, investment protection against a single vendor and faster time to market. These key advantages have held true for the... read more