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Wednesday, August 29 2007

Negative PING times on AMD Dual Core Processors - Solved

In recent weeks we have received reports about negative PING time measurements (e.g. -5 ms) from users of our monitoring products. "Great", we thought, "our software has overcome the laws the physics and is able to received network packets before they are actually sent". But now there are more and more hints showing up around the Internet that we will not receive the Nobel price in physics...

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Tuesday, August 21 2007

Network Monitoring provides Transparency and Insight into the IT Infrastructure

A properly working systems environment is indispensable for all enterprises. System outages - web shops, applications, or employees' PCs for example - can have a hugely negative impact on business processes and working climate. And it is the IT department that becomes the focus of attention, getting all the criticism, yet its achievements are often not appreciated, because the staff don't understand what they do.

Read more in our latest press release.

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Monday, August 20 2007

New Version 5.4.1 of IPCheck Server Monitor adds WMI Sensors and Vista Support

Today we have released the latest version 5.4.1 of IPCheck Server Monitor. The main new feature is support for five new sensors based on WMI

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Friday, August 10 2007

Taylor Wessing Monitors its Infrastructure Using IPCheck Server Monitor

European law company Taylor Wessing chose IPCheck Server Monitor after looking closely at the market for monitoring tools. They looked at monitoring companies that charged anything from £12,000 a year just to monitor email up to £120,000 for across the board monitoring. Neither were options. He also considered HP Open View but, due to the length of time required to train personnel on the product and, thereafter, the potential high staff turnover they dismissed it.

Instead they looked for a product that was "simple but very powerful". The solution was found in Paessler's IPCheck Server Monitor.

Read more in our latest case study.

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Thursday, August 09 2007

How VC company Accel monitors bandwidth in their network with PRTG

Accel, a venture capital company with offices in London, England, and Palo Alto, California has been using PRTG Traffic Grapher for several years to monitor bandwidth consumption in their office network and the home networks of the home offices of the staff.

Read about their experiences in our latest case study.

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Friday, August 03 2007

Paessler AG has moved into a new office

Over the last weekend our company has moved into a new office.

We are now located at Burgschmietstrasse 10 close to the city center of Nuremberg, Bavaria, some 5 kilometers away from our previous office in Fuerth.

The new building is a historic mansion in "art nouveau" style, was built in 1908 and has recently been beautifully renovated. The move gives us more space to accomodate our growth for the next years.

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Thursday, August 02 2007

New version 6.1.1 of PRTG Traffic Grapher released

Yesterday we have released a new version of PRTG Traffic Grapher that adds three new features:

• Improved Multi-Sensor-Editing: A lot more sensor settings can now be edited for mutliple sensors at once, e.g. notification settings and groups.
  
• Support for French user interface: You can now run PRTG in French. A French manual is also included
  
• Webserver now has a "robots.txt" file: This avoids spidering of your PRTG web interface by search engine spiders
  

Additionally our PRTG history page lists 21 changes and bugfixes for this new version.

Learn more or download this new version.

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