IT Best Practices: Benchmarking your Web competitors

Visitors’ expectations are high when it comes to performance – speed matters and every millisecond counts. Did you know that fewer users will visit a Website if it is a mere 250 milliseconds slower than a competitor (Source: New York Times)?

One of the best ways to gain market share and stay ahead of your...


Arm yourself for 2014 with free Site24x7 Tools

2014 is here. There’s nothing better than starting afresh with a new year and strong resolutions – as long as it’s not a half-hearted attempt at getting back to the gym that only lasts a week. But on the business side, increasing efficiency and looking for ways to optimize your Website are must-tackle goals for this New Year...


Virtualizing your datacenter? Checklist of items to remember!

Congratulations- you are virtualizing your servers and supercharging your datacenter! Virtualization projects can be challenging and full of roadblocks if you don’t take the time to clearly document your requirements, virtualization policies and performance monitoring plans once your deployment is complete.

Want to avoid busi...


Take an Olympic-style approach to IT

There’s a Tibetan saying: it’s better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. It’s a phrase that springs to my mind every time a slalom competitor zigzags their way down the slopes at the Winter Olympics. Or a snowboarder pulls the perfect backflip. That said, taking any unnecessary ...


Website Fiascos & Lessons learned - A Quick Recap

Recent website fiascos led us to pen down a series of blogs focusing on the subject. Here are the four parts Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3 and Part 4. Incase you missed it, continue reading for a quick recap.

Here is the story so far: Websites


Top sites for women in IT

Blogs have given many millions of women a place to network, share ideas, receive support and raise the profile of global issues. Yet despite the fact females make up the majority of social network users overall, the IT industry itself is still a male dominated field. Trying to change that are a number of female-centric websites focused on emp...


Are you in control of your company's mobile devices?

4 steps to better mobile device management

~If Cisco’s predictions on the number of mobile connected devices 2013 would end with were accurate, there are now more mobile devices on Earth than people. It’s a shocking thought that implies there are over 7 billion devices worldwide.


Moving to the Cloud? Checklist of items you should NOT forget!

It is an exciting time - you are moving to the cloud!

Yet a cloud journey could be challenging and full of bumps if you don’t take the time to document your cloud requirements, performance monitoring plans, and clearly define issue ownership once your deployment is complete.


Multiple Instance Support and App Filter for IIS Instances - Improved .NET Monitoring is Here!

Now, there is no need for you to be in the dark trying to~figure out~how your individual application is performing (highlighting the fact that previously~APM Insight~gave you~cumulative~performance metrics of all your applications together, and monitoring individual application performance is so very critica...


Simple cures for everyday IT headaches

Chuck away the Alka-Selzer, roll up your sleeves and fix common IT faults~with a little

tech-savvy know-how. It’s cheaper than calling in the experts or assigning your PC to the bin.