Network slowdowns can have a damaging impact on your business, so it’s critical to implement a good, feature-rich performance monitor. Compare WhatsUp Gold or SolarWinds to see which product might ...

With that in mind, the Test Center has taken a look at Ipswitch's WhatsUp Gold Premium -- which the vendor bills as a "cost-effective" management and monitoring solution -- to see if it fits the bill.

Pretty much every device nowadays plugs into the network, from intelligent refrigerators to handheld digital assistants. Seeing the impact those devices have on the network has become more critical ...

A watched pot may never boil, but an unwatched computer will certainly crash. Once your systems outgrow your desk, you need some automated way to watch them. Big companies spend big bucks on network ...

Hello from the road where I’m meeting SMB business people in Chicago, Seattle, New York and Houston as host of Network World’s technology event, IT Strategies for Small to Mid-size Businesses.

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. A network outage could cost North American ...