‘In-Stat’ suggests that over 515 million Wi-Fi enabled Smartphone devices will enter the market in 2014. That’s just smartphones – now factor in tablets, TV’s, laptops and desktops and the sheer scale of incoming devices into wireless networks becomes difficult...
With increasing cyber security threats, it is vital for organisations to have wider visibility over their network. Cybercriminals today are targeting Active Directories (AD), performing reconnaissance to discover users, servers and computers in an enterprise network....
Every day, organisations of all sizes face network security threats from hackers. While Anti-Virus software and firewalls are a great way to secure your business, typically businesses neglect an important part of security, that is log file management. The very purpose...
When your customers say “the internet is slow” wouldn’t it be great to have a quick and easy way to see the route a particular machine is following to get to the app or site and work out what node seems to be holding things up? If you answered yes to that, then you’re...
It’s already been a week since we hosted the free 1-day seminar (IT and operations management) in Auckland and Wellington. Soft Solutions together with ManageEngine would like to thank everyone who attended. At the end of the day, there was a lot of information shared...
Let’s not try to pretend that patch management is an exciting subject. It’s not. Convincing clients of its importance can, however, be tricky. Non-technical people have no interest whatsoever in a newly discovered “buffer overrun vulnerability.” To them,...
Whether you want to monitor your customers’ networks to ensure best in class service, or enhance your business by offering monitoring as a service to your customers; PRTG Network Monitor is the easiest way to do it. Now Paessler AG has made PRTG MSP-friendly in...
For individuals, most New Year’s resolutions can slip; but for businesses, resolutions need to stick. Crucially the IT goals you set at the beginning of the year can make or break business performance for the coming months. No matter what your goals for 2016...
Soft Solutions have just been appointed as the New Zealand distributor for Network Detective, the #1 non-invasive IT Assessment tool. Network Detective allows you to run full IT assessments with no agents and no installs. Then produce awesome, fully-branded reports in...
ManageEngine is the Swiss Army knife of the tech world – a company with clean and simple tools which businesses want to take everywhere. The enterprise IT Management Software division of tech giant ZOHO Corporation, ManageEngine delivers the real-time IT...
Western Bay of Plenty District Council is using OpManager from ManageEngine to provide central collection of events and data from their IT infrastructure. Their Information Technology Team Leader, Richard Gilligan, recently gave a presentation at the ALGIM...
Most UTM (Unified Threat Management) appliances provide basic security features out of the box but are too complicated to implement and harder to manage. Kerio has made that a focus with Kerio Control and everyone who tries it immediately sees how easy it is to set it...
