It has been said a lot about the necessity of using the inventory tracking
software on networks of any size and in any organization. Firstly, because it
helps to improve employees' effectiveness. Secondly, it allows reducing the
company's expenses on software and hardware. Thirdly, using this kind of
program, you are able to keep your hardware and software up-to-date, which is
extremely important nowadays. And finally, the inventory tracking program
allows the system administrator and head manager to avoid problems that are
connected with using unlicensed or cracked software by the employees. And
now, it is time to discuss one more important issue particularly. How to
choose the best inventory tracking software?
To do so, you need to focus of features that you want to be in the program.
Compose a list of inventory features that your company needs. Those may
includ... (more)
Today you can find a lot of programs that help system administrators to
perform the company's local network monitoring process. There are both
commercial (all of them have different functionality and therefore different
price) and free software among them. Some managers ask: why do they need to
buy the software if a company can save money and use the free one? What is
the difference between the commercial and free network monitoring programs?
Does using the free software really help to cut down the company's expenses?
1. The functionality of commercial network monitoring programs ... (more)
First of all, it's worth mentioning that the choice of network hardware and
software used in a company depends on the network topology. But the topology,
in turn, depends on the company's needs and requirements. Thus, the competent
network topology increases the efficiency of all the organization and allows
you not to distract your colleagues if one of the LAN components falls out.
In addition, the intimate knowledge of the network topology allows the IT
manager to evaluate its bottlenecks, and to plan further connections of the
network devices and PCs better. Apart from everythi... (more)
Any modern company needs systematization, detailed analysis, and control of
the network traffic that is transmitted through the company's computers,
servers, and other devices. This process is called the traffic and bandwidth
monitoring. The importance of the constant traffic monitoring is determined
by a lot of reasons.
First of all, it is essential for companies which have to limit the traffic
volume utilized by users per day, week, month if, for instance, the
connection to the Internet is limited. A bandwidth monitoring program allows
the system administrator not only to cont... (more)
The program should collect the inbound and outbound network traffic data on
computers. With such a program you can easily find out which computer in your
network uses up the available bandwidth.
What other benefits will we get when we use a bandwidth monitoring program?
We can identify a guilty employee, who uses the company resources for
personal affairs, or find computers infected by a virus which generates a lot
of network traffic.
When the bandwidth monitor constantly collects the statistics about the
inbound and outbound traffic which passes through each networked computer, ... (more)
Dmitriy Stepanov is a CEO at 10-Strike Software, 
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