LogicMonitor Expands Executive Team to Fuel Next Stage of Growth

LogicMonitor has announced Yvonne Schroeder as General Counsel and Todd Riesterer as Chief People Officer.

LogicMonitor’s Sanjay Gupta and Michael Tarbet Recognized on CRN’s 2020 Channel Chiefs List

LogicMonitor's Global Vice President Sanjay Gupta and Vice President of Sales Michael Tarbet have been named to the CRN's 2020 Channel Chiefs list.

Nearly 65% of Global IT Leaders Blame AI, Cloud and Mobile Initiatives for Taking Their Organizations Offline

LogicMonitor’s latest research, the IT Downtime Detection and Mitigation Report, finds that global IT decision makers hold their own IT transformation initiatives — including cloud and artificial intelligence — responsible for outages and brownouts.

LogicMonitor Named to Built In Austin’s Prestigious Best Places to Work List in 2020

LogicMonitor, the leading provider of infrastructure monitoring and intelligence across both on-premises and cloud, today announced it was included on Built In Austin’s list of Best Places to Work in 2020.

LogicMonitor Acquires AIOps Company Unomaly to Enhance Observability, Help IT Pinpoint Log Issues Faster and Drive Intelligent Action

LogicMonitor, the leading provider of infrastructure intelligence across both on-premises and cloud, today announced that it has acquired Unomaly, an AIOps company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. The acquisition accelerates LogicMonitor’s AIOps roadmap and will help ITOps teams quickly gain the intelligent insights needed to determine when and how to embrace automation in order to resolve IT infrastructure issues before they disrupt the business.

LogicMonitor Buys Swedish IT Monitoring Firm Unomaly

IT infrastructure monitoring firm LogicMonitor has agreed to buy Swedish startup Unomaly for an undisclosed sum. Founded 2012, Sweden-based Unomaly operates in a similar space to LogicMontor; automatically analysing data that is produced by IT systems and applications. Read More: Computer Business Review

Making Moves – LogicMonitor Acquires Unomaly

LogicMonitor, a California-based tech company with major offices in Austin, has acquired Sweden-based AIOps company Unomaly, which was founded in 2012. LogicMonitor has about 550 employees, and Austin is home to its largest group of workers. The company is partially owned by Austin-based Vista Equity Partners.

LogicMonitor Gobbles Up AIOps Provider Unomaly

Performance monitoring company LogicMonitor updated its AIOps roadmap with the acquisition of Swedish AIOps company Unomaly. The company said the deal will provide a more robust artificial intelligence (AI) base for IT teams. Read More: SDxCentral

LogicMonitor acquires Unomaly for enhanced IT observability

LogicMonitor has announced it is acquiring the AIOps company Unomaly in the hopes of providing IT teams with better visibility into infrastructure issues and unexpected changes and events.

LogicMonitor Acquires AIOps Company Unomaly

LogicMonitor announced that it has acquired Unomaly, an AIOps company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. The acquisition accelerates LogicMonitor's AIOps roadmap and will help ITOps teams quickly gain the intelligent insights needed to determine when and how to embrace automation in order to resolve IT infrastructure issues before they disrupt the business. Read More: VMBlog

LogicMonitor Acquires Unomaly for IT Monitoring Automation

LogicMonitor has acquired Unomaly, an AIOps company in Stockholm, Sweden. Financial terms were not disclosed. This is M&A Deal Number 42 that ChannelE2E has covered in 2020. See the complete M&A deal list here. Read More: ChannelE2E

NortonLifeLock, LogicMonitor Among Firms in Monday Channel M&A Spree

NortonLifeLock, LogicMonitor and Entisys360 were among companies in the channel that unveiled acquisitions Monday. Read More: ChannelFutures

LogicMonitor Snaps Up AIOps Firm Unomaly To Make Infrastructure Visibility More 'Holistic'

LogicMonitor has scooped up Unomaly, a Swedish tech firm known for its artificial intelligence (AI) chops, the two companies announced on Monday. Software-as-a-Service monitoring specialist LogicMonitor said that the acquisition will ultimately give IT and DevOps teams more intelligence.  Read More: CRN

LogicMonitor planning to invest in partners

It has been almost a year since LogicMonitor launched its channel programme and the firm has seen a good take-up with partners giving it the determination to invest further in 2020. The firms specialises in AIOps and just before the close of the year rolled out an early warning system that partners could use to help customers identify issues that could cause performance problems if left unresolved. Read More: Computer Weekly

2020: Change is afoot in everything DevOps

It is officially 2020 and with the new year comes the inevitability of change, fresh trends and original ways of looking at things. DevOps is one environment that is no stranger to rapid changes and more often than not,  these can lead to varying opinions and that sets a path towards a wide range of industry predictions. Read More: DevOps Online

Reducing the impact of IT outages

Digital transformation is well underway in many organisations. IDC forecasts that businesses worldwide will spend nearly $2 trillion on digitalisation projects by 2022. As the adoption of new technologies continues at pace, more and more customer touchpoints are becoming digital – and their availability is increasingly mission critical. Customers expect a seamless, efficient and reliable experience on all channels, at all times. Read More: Information Age

How Performance Monitoring Can Drive Business Growth

Monitoring unlocks new pathways to growth by expanding what's possible for businesses and advancing the technology behind them. LogicMonitor seamlessly monitors infrastructures, empowering companies to focus less on problem-solving and more on evolution. Read More: The Tech Talks Daily Podcast

LogicMonitor Doubles Down on Channels and Strategic Alliances with Former BMC Exec Hire and Partner Expansion

LogicMonitor today announced that Sanjay Gupta has joined the company as Global Vice President, Channels and Alliances. In this newly created leadership role, Sanjay will drive the expansion of LogicMonitor’s existing ecosystem of channel partners and strategic alliances.

Registration Now Open to Innovators Looking to Explore What’s Possible with IT

LogicMonitor today announced that registration is now open for the unified IT infrastructure monitoring company’s 2nd annual Level Up conference for IT professionals. The two-day event will take place May 27-29 2020 at the JW Marriott in Austin, Texas.

LogicMonitor Announces 2nd Annual Level Up Conference for IT Professionals

LogicMonitor today announced that registration is now open for the unified IT infrastructure monitoring company’s 2nd annual Level Up conference for IT professionals. The two-day event will take place May 27-29 2020 at the JW Marriott in Austin, Texas.

25 data security stats that matter

Organizations are under tremendous pressure to protect customer and business data. Laws such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have considerably upped the ante for entities that experience data breaches. Failure to comply with such requirements can result in costly fines and other legal implications. Read More: TechBeacon

2020 DevOps Predictions – Part 4

Industry experts offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how DevOps and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2020. Part 4 covers AI, analytics and automation. Read More: DevOps Digest

Ramp up carefully during AIOps implementation

LAS VEGAS — AIOps has potentially significant benefits, from increased productivity on IT teams to self-healing infrastructure and predictive analytics. The road to AI in IT operations, however, can be long and bumpy, so adopt the technology with caution. Read More: SearchITOperations

LogicMonitor Crowns Former BMC Exec As New Channel Chief

IT veteran Sanjay Gupta is taking the reins of LogicMonitor's channel as the company embraces partners building businesses around software as a service. Read More: CRN

LogicMonitor Announces AIOps solution, LM Intelligence

LogicMonitor today announced general availability of its AIOps early warning system, which marks the latest enhancement to its AIOps solution, LM Intelligence. The new system is designed to provide actionable warning indicators for imminent issues. Combined with the single pane of glass view enabled by LogicMonitor's unified IT infrastructure monitoring platform, LM Intelligence helps enterprises predict and prevent IT outages, saving IT teams time, money and avoiding potential damage to their brand reputation.  Read more: VMblog

LogicMonitor Embraces AIOps

LogicMonitor today announced the general availability of LM Intelligence, an extension of its monitoring platform that leverages machine learning algorithms to identify potential issues that are indicative of a major impending outage. Read More: DevOps.com

LogicMonitor Announces AIOps Solution Available Now

LogicMonitor today announced general availability of its AIOps early warning system, which marks the latest enhancement to its AIOps solution, LM Intelligence™.  Read more: CIO Dive

LogicMonitor Announces Innovative Enhancements to AIOps Solution

LogicMonitor today announced general availability of its AIOps early warning system, which marks the latest enhancement to its AIOps solution, LM Intelligence™. The new system is designed to provide actionable warning indicators for imminent issues.

Traditional Security Versus Cloud Security: A Comparison

Businesses of all sizes are adopting the cloud as a way to optimize productivity, increase efficiency, and improve data security.    According to Forbes, via cloud stats from ​LogicMonitor’s Cloud Vision 2020: The Future of the Cloud Study​ report, “83% of enterprise workloads will be in the Cloud in 2020.” Read More: CPA Practice Advisor

LogicMonitor Announces Early Warning System for AIOps Solution

Performance monitoring solutions provider LogicMonitor today announced a new early warning system feature for their AIOps solution, LM Intelligence. The early warning system is designed to deliver actionable warning indicators to IT administrators when it detects an imminent issue. This aligns with LM Intelligence’s capabilities for helping enterprises predict and prevent hardware and service outages. Read More: Network Monitoring Solutions Review

AIOps Early Warning System Now Available by LogicMonitor

LogicMonitor has announced that its new AIOps early warning system is now available. This system is an addition to the LM Intelligence AIOps solution. “LM Intelligence is our AIOps platform, and how we look at it is the platform gives a way to build intelligent algorithms on top of the data streams that are coming to the platform,” said Tej Redkar, chief product officer at LogicMonitor.  Read More: IT Ops Times

LogicMonitor Releases AIOps Early Warning System

LogicMonitor announced general availability of its AIOps early warning system, which marks the latest enhancement to its AIOps solution, LM Intelligence. The new system is designed to provide actionable warning indicators for imminent issues.  Read More: APM Digest

How to Secure Your E-Commerce Website: 6 Basic Steps

E-commerce platforms offer unlimited opportunities for small to midsize businesses (SMBs) to increase sales, but cybercrime and online fraud are also at an all-time high. Follow these basic steps to keep your site, your customers, and their data as safe as possible. Read More: PC Magazine

Winning the IT Availability War: How to Combat Costly Downtime

Analysts predict global enterprises will spend nearly $2 trillion on digital transformation by 2022. With digital initiatives and technology becoming ubiquitous with business today, one would think that companies would be more than ready for a world where virtually every touchpoint with customers is digital. Read More: TotalRetail

LogicMonitor Rounds Out Year of Record Growth with Expanded International Footprint and Global Hiring Push

LogicMonitor today announced the opening of a new Research and Development Center of Excellence in Pune, India. The new Center of Excellence is the latest in a string of 2019 office expansions and additions that include Austin, London and Sydney and rounds out a year of exponential growth for the SaaS-based IT infrastructure monitoring company.

LogicMonitor Honored as 2019 CRN® Tech Innovator Award Winner

LogicMonitor today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized its platform with a 2019 CRN Tech Innovator Award. CRN editors evaluated hundreds of products across 34 technology categories using criteria including technological advancements, uniqueness of features and potential to help solution providers solve common IT challenges.

Has the Travel, Transport & Hospitality Industry Moved Forward with Cloud Deployment?

With evolving business needs, continuous changes in technology and business models, the travel, transportation & hospitality (TTH) industry is constantly trying to rejig its technology strategy and lead the disruption. To enable legacy modernization and improve customer experience, several industry leaders have adopted cloud-based technologies to accelerate their business outcomes. Read More: Virtusa

Cloud Computing and Cloud Architecture Trends in 2020

Use of the cloud has grown significantly. Cloud computing has become so popular, many startups are taking a “cloud-first” approach (the deliberate practice of considering use of the cloud first). The cloud offers tools, data, and scalable computing power that would be difficult to access in other ways.  Read More: Dataversity

The Top 10 Cybersecurity Trends to Look Out for in 2020

The year 2019 saw great technological advances creating opportunities for businesses and individuals alike to prosper and thrive in a digital world. These very technological feats also saw increasing cyber threats of varying nature challenging us to stay ahead of the game. Read More: JayPee Online

Role of Cloud in Risk Management and Web Security

Multi-cloud is the subsequent trend, and DevOps engineers must be knowledgeable in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Cloud computing promises terrific security, however it has issues.  Read More: Medium

VMblog Expert Interview: LogicMonitor Talks IT Outage Impact Study

Recently, LogicMonitor released the results of a survey of 300 IT decision-makers on the impacts of IT downtime. The SaaS company seamlessly monitors on-premises and multi-cloud IT infrastructures for enterprise IT and managed service providers (MSPs), so a deep dive on availability is right in its wheelhouse. Read More: VMblog

The 2019 Tech Innovator Awards

The ability to empower solution providers with truly differentiated offerings is the crowning achievement of our Tech Innovator winners and finalists for 2019. IT Infrastructure Monitoring Winner: LogicMonitor Read More: CRN

LogicMonitor Earns Designation as a Great Place to Work-Certified™ Company

LogicMonitor today announced that it is Great Place to Work-Certified™. Certification is a significant achievement. Using validated employee feedback gathered with Great Place to Work’s® rigorous, data-driven “For All” methodology, Great Place to Work confirmed that 97% of employees are proud to tell other people they work at LogicMonitor.

LogicMonitor Reveals the True Cost of IT Outages

If you ever meet an IT professional who says they have never had an infrastructure outage in their career, they are either lying or in the first week of their career. Let’s face it, despite our best intentions and tremendous attention to detail, bad things happen in IT. Sometimes its due hardware failure or a software bug.  Read More: Gestalt IT

7 Austin Companies Where Adventure Awaits for Top Talent

LogicMonitor is a SaaS program that aims to unify servers, storage and networks into a single solution for IT enterprises. Marketing Specialist Elizabeth Bryant told us that connecting with the Austin community empowers her team to better exemplify the company mission. Read More: Built in Austin

The Leading Causes of IT Outages – and How to Prevent Them

IT outages happen to companies across the globe, regardless of location, annual revenue or size. Even the most mammoth companies are at risk of downtime. Increasingly over the past few years, high-profile IT outages — defined as when the services or systems a business provides suddenly become unavailable — have ended up splashed across national news headlines. Read More: APM Digest

Gadi Oren – Vice President of Technology Evangelism for LogicMonitor

It’s been said that the enemy of execution is complexity. Nowhere has this rung truer than corporate data centers, where growing systems complexity threatens the execution of digital transformation strategies. How can enterprises successfully transition to this new digital business paradigm, without succumbing to the hazards that can jeopardize increasingly complicated IT environments? According to one expert, the answer is AIOps. Hear more: Intelligent Automation Radio

Customization vs. Configuration: Which Approach is Best?

Software vendors have always sought to provide highly adaptable solutions by allowing customization. Most vendors will claim that it’s easy to customize their solution. However, there are two different approaches. Read More: Automation.com

4 Monitoring Tips for Container Mastery

According to a Gartner survey, more than 50% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production by 2020, up from less than 20% in 2017. This shift is understandable, as containers enable greater velocity and efficiency when developing, deploying and scaling applications. Read more: VMBlog

The Cloud Paradox: Less Energy Used, More Energy Wasted

The cloud is now a part of our daily lives, so much so that many of us likely take it for granted as a means for storing our documents and streaming our favorite shows. And by all indications, it will only be getting bigger. Read More: Engineering.com

Performance Monitoring for MSPs – TubbTalk #58

Join Richard as he talks to Mark Banfield, Chief Revenue Officer of LogicMonitor, a SaaS platform that provides automated hybrid infrastructure monitoring and analytics. Mark talks about the role of performance monitoring for MSPs who want to grow their business, increase efficiency and improve all-round customer experience. Hear more: TubbTalk

Small Businesses Cut the Cord with Cloud Computing Options

Consumers continue to cut their cords at record rates, as cancellation of pay-TV services remains a primary provider woe. In fact, the nation’s top three providers suffered a net subscription loss of 1.2 million in the second quarter of 2019, compared with a net loss of just 134,000 subscriptions in the same period a year ago. Read More: SAP Blog

Managing Cloud Security In A Multicloud Environment (Part 1)

Cloud computing has become mainstream. The challenge for companies is how best to manage operations and security in a multicloud environment. Most large enterprises now use anywhere from three to five cloud vendors to assist with IaaS, PaaS, SaaS or their variants. And yet only about 20% to 30% of the world’s production workloads are running in the cloud, many of which are not mission-critical.  Read More: Forbes

Payment Trends That Will Impact Software Developer Businesses in 2020

Users want to manage payments in the cloud, reduce friction for consumers with IoT and establish recurring payments to offer products as a service. It’s Q4, and consumer-facing businesses are finalizing strategies that will help them grow in 2020 and beyond. Once their goals are firmly established, they will turn to ISVs and software developers to begin the search for tech solutions that will help them achieve these goals. Read More: DevPro Journal

Availability of IT infrastructure tops list of customer concerns

What stops your customers’ businesses? As well as a power cut or something failing, there are instances of human error as well as malevolent intent. It might be something IT providers need to consider when engaging in customer discussions. Read More: ITEuropa

6 ways retailers can win the holidays

It's a high stakes year, as retailers have closed nearly 7,300 stores thus far and 28 retailers are facing bankruptcy in the next 12 months. Even though it's October, the holiday season is already in full swing. The importance of retail's performance in the coming months can determine a company's trajectory in a year where the industry has taken some big punches.  Read More: Retail Dive

LogicMonitor Completes ISO 27000 Series Certifications for Information Security Management

LogicMonitor today announced that the company has completed certification to the ISO/IEC 27000 standards for information security management, demonstrating adherence to this internationally recognized standard for information security.

LogicMonitor Completes ISO 27000 Series Certifications for Information Security Management

Are retailers doomed for more outages this holiday season?

Major players like J. Crew, Lowe's and Walmart experienced tech glitches or crashes last Black Friday. Eight experts weigh in on how companies can prevent a repeat this year. With retailers gearing up for another holiday season, now is not the time to experience tech outages.

Cloud readiness is all about simplification

Moving data to the cloud is top of mind for most organisations today, yet many struggle with effectively migrating on-premises workloads into cloud environments, as one of the most often overlooked considerations in this process is cloud readiness.

LogicMonitor Study Reveals Most Companies Face Costly IT Outages

LogicMonitor finds that 96 percent of enterprises have faced an IT outage over the last three years. Mark Banfield, chief revenue officer, discusses how LogicMonitor empowers MSPs to change that.

LogicMonitor Releases 2019 IT Outage Impact Study

A new LogicMonitor study of 300 IT decision-makers examined the impact infrastructure and software brownouts and outages have on organizations in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, and if such events are preventable. The 2019 IT Outage Impact Study found that although performance and availability are the top two concerns of IT teams worldwide, organizations are still plagued by frequent brownouts (where infrastructure or software performs at a degraded level) or outright outages. 

Most outages can potentially be avoided, argues IT – yet the business side is pessimistic

Outages, for some, remain the great imponderable for IT and business teams alike. On occasions there is little that can be done about it; Google Cloud, for instance, suffered an outage in August that left affected users with hands tied behind backs for hours.

Most Aussie Tech Hit By Extensive, Costly Outages

A new study by enterprise performance monitor LogicMonitor shows most companies in Australia and New Zealand experience severe software disruptions and infrastructure outages. LogicMonitor surveyed 300 IT executives in the US, UK and A/NZ and found that, although performance and availability are the top two concerns of IT teams, companies are still plagued by frequent brownouts and outages.

IT teams struggling to avoid outages and brownouts

Almost all Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) businesses face information technology (IT) outages, despite 47% of downtime being avoidable, according to a new study.

Half of all downtime is easily preventable, study finds

Organisations suffer more than three performance- or reputation-damaging outages a year, but most could be avoided through simple measures says LogicMonitor report

Study Shows that 97% of UK Companies Face Costly IT Outages, Though 53% of Failures are Avoidable

LogicMonitor, a SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for enterprise IT and service providers, has released the results of a new study of 300 IT decision-makers, including 100 based in the UK.

Over half of outages are avoidable

LogicMonitor, a SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for enterprise IT and service providers, has released the results from a new study of 300 IT decision makers, including 100 based in the UK. The 2019 IT Outage Impact Study examines the impact infrastructure and software brownouts and outages have on organisations, and if such events are preventable.

51 percent of outages are avoidable finds the 2019 IT Outage Impact Study

LogicMonitor has published the results from a new study of IT decision makers. The 2019 IT Outage Impact Study examines the impact infrastructure and software brownouts and outages have on organizations, and if such events are preventable.

LOGICMONITOR RELEASE OUTAGE SURVEY FINDINGS

LogicMonitor, a SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for enterprise IT and service providers, has released the results from a new study of 300 IT decision makers, including 100 based in the UK.

New Study Reveals that 96% of Enterprises Face Costly IT Outages, Though IT Says 51% of Downtime Is Avoidable

A new LogicMonitor study of 300 IT decision makers examines the impact infrastructure and software brownouts and outages have on organizations in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, and if such events are preventable. The 2019 IT Outage Impact Study found that although performance and availability are the top two concerns of IT teams worldwide, organizations are still plagued by frequent brownouts (where infrastructure or software performs at a degraded level) or outright outages. The typical organization surveyed experienced a combined total of 10 such events over the past three years.

Fast-growing firms will find freedom in a multi-cloud world

The digital universe – just like the physical version – is expanding at a phenomenal rate. According to IDC, worldwide data will grow 61 per cent compounded annually to 175 zettabytes in just six years, with as much of the data residing in the cloud as in data centres.

IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and hosted appliances: Making sense of the cloud and what it offers

“Moving to the cloud” has become one of the most popular phrases in IT and management in recent years. By 2020, LogicMonitor predicts that 83 per cent of enterprise workloads will be cloud-based.

Using predictive analytics to troubleshoot network issues: Fact or fiction?

Predictive analytics can reveal lurking network problems before they impact reliability or performance. Once considered a futuristic technology, predictive analytics is poised to become a mainstream network diagnostic and management tool.

LogicMonitor President and CEO Kevin McGibben Recognized on CRN’s 2019 Top 100 Executives List

LogicMonitor today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Kevin McGibben, President and CEO, to its 2019 list of Top 100 Executives. This annual list recognizes technology executives who lead, influence, innovate and disrupt the IT channel. 

Best APM Tools in 2019

It’s one thing to manage IT infrastructure and networks, but often it’s the applications that require the most attention. It’s not just that there can be so many of them, but also the fact they tend to update frequently which can cause problems with software conflicts and unexpected issues with hardware. 

How to Move to the Cloud without Breaking the Bank

Having the best technology is place is imperative. Why? Because seamless digital transformation is a key part in running a cost-effective operation.

Are the Days of On-Prem Numbered?

With all the attention being paid to the growth of cloud computing it would be easy to think the days of on-premisess implementations were numbered. Indeed, in January 2019 LogicMonitor’s report, Cloud Vision 2020: The Future of Cloud, found that 41 percent of enterprise workloads will be …

LogicMonitor Enhances AIOps Capabilities with Anomaly Detection

LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for enterprise IT and Service Providers, today announced the addition of anomaly detection to the platform’s growing artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) capabilities. This new feature was debuted to IT professionals at the company’s inaugural conference, Level Up.

LogicMonitor Welcomes IT Professionals to Inaugural Level Up Conference

LogicMonitor is expanding what’s possible for businesses by advancing the technology behind them with seamless infrastructure monitoring. Today the company welcomed IT professionals to its inaugural Level Up conference at the Fairmont in Austin to share this vision and discuss how monitoring is shaping the information revolution.

LogicMonitor Hunts for Australian Partners

Performance monitoring vendor LogicMonitor is on the hunt for local partners.

10 Best Application Monitoring Tools for all Platforms

Do you know how to find out what the best application monitoring tools are?

Enterprises Look to SD-WAN to Manage Cloud Challenges

Enterprises are shifting their data centre strategies towards a mix of different clouds to support their applications and workloads, and they are also moving towards as-a-service models for software and infrastructure.

LogicMonitor Named a Market Leader in Network Monitoring by G2

LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for enterprise IT and Managed Service Providers, was recently named a market leader in Network Monitoring by G2 in its Spring 2019 Report. G2 is the world’s leading business solutions review website.

Digital Transformation – A Disruptive Power for all Sectors of the Financial System

Amid the drama of 2018’s know-how markets, one sector confirmed notable resilience: enterprise software program.

Top 10 Best Network Monitoring Tools (2019 Rankings)

A List of the Best Paid and Free Network Monitoring Tools and Software in 2019:

5 Cyber Security Trends for 2019

Cyber security is increasing in importance for members of the public and business owners alike. Discover five trends that you really need to know.

The 5 Best Server and Application Monitoring Tools

We are in the data age. Businesses and organizations are more reliant on networks and data than they ever have been before. Almost every transaction is being conducted online. From money transfers, product advertisements, purchases, and also communication. Which is why your company’s network cannot afford to be down.

LogicMonitor Announces Speakers for Inaugural Level Up Conference

LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for enterprise IT and service providers, today announced additional speakers and breakout sessions for Level Up, the company’s inaugural conference. Level Up, the premier conference for IT professionals monitoring their hybrid environments, will take place from June 24-26, 2019 at the Fairmont in Austin, Texas. The event will kick off with a full day of training and certification by LogicMonitor experts, followed by two days of keynotes, breakout sessions and networking events.

2020 – The Year of Cloud

It is clear that cloud computing was one of the key innovations which defined the 2010s. The general adoption of the cloud was preceded by several events, starting from the planning of “intergalactic computer network” by U.S. government scientist J.C.R. Licklider in the 1960s. In 2006 cloud computing entered the mainstream technology arena when AWS announced the launch of its Elastic Compute Cloud.

How Safe is Cloud Storage?

In today’s world, a lot of things need to be done on the fly. Shifting your data from local storage to cloud storage can provide better security for and accessibility to data with virtually zero limitations on connectivity. This is why cloud services are becoming increasingly popular. According to a survey by LogicMonitor, by 2020, 83% of enterprise workloads will have shifted to the cloud. 

LogicMonitor Now Available on AWS Marketplace

LogicMonitor, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based performance monitoring platform for enterprise IT and Managed Service Providers, today announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) DevOps Competency status and is also now available on AWS Marketplace, bringing its hybrid infrastructure monitoring and analytics solution to global AWS customers

Colocation to Cloud – Stepping Stone or Business Objective?

The benefits of cloud are well recognized; resilience, agility, cost savings and space savings to name a few.

LogicMonitor Strengthens Leadership Team With Three Executive Hires

LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for Enterprise IT and Managed Service Providers, today announced the appointment of three key executives across operations, product and finance to strengthen its leadership. These appointments follow a period of strong growth and an investment by Vista Equity Partners in 2018. LogicMonitor’s expanded leadership team will support rapid, ongoing expansion across the company.

Overview: More than 80% of Enterprises Will Adopt Cloud Computing Strategies In 2020

According to a survey conducted by LogicMonitor, enterprises will run their workloads on public and private cloud-based platforms, as well as on hybrid cloud platforms which are still under development.

11 Best Hyper-V Monitoring Tools & Software for 2019

The widespread utilization of virtualization has been one of the most pronounced trends in networking. Organizations are turning to virtualization in an attempt to reduce the costs associated with managing and deploying hardware devices. Microsoft Hyper-V environments have become some of the most important components of networks.

How Businesses Can Capitalize on a Multi-cloud IT Strategy with SD-WAN

Enterprises are continuing to accelerate the migration of workloads to public cloud service providers – such as AWS, Azure, Oracle and Google – often as part of an overall digital transformation and cloud-first IT strategy. According to LogicMonitor, more than 80 percent of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by 2020. 

LogicMonitor Expands Presence in ServiceNow Store with CMDB Integration

LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for enterprise IT and Managed Service Providers, today announced it has received certification of LogicMonitor CMDB Integration with ServiceNow, available now in the ServiceNow Store. Certification by ServiceNow is only granted to apps available in the Store and signifies that the LogicMonitor CMDB Integration has successfully completed a set of defined tests focused on Now Platform security, compatibility, performance and integration interoperability. The certification also ensures that best practices are utilized in the design and implementation of LogicMonitor with ServiceNow.

Interview: What You can Expect from LogicMonitor’s APAC Expansion

LogicMonitor is a provider of SaaS-based infrastructure monitoring software for hybrid IT environments – and it has big plans to shake up Asia Pacific this year.

LogicMonitor Launches Partner Rewards Program

LogicMonitor, a SaaS-based performance monitoring platform provider, has launched a partner programme, the LogicMonitor Partner Network, formalising the company’s global partner ecosystem.

LogicMonitor Seeks Channel Partners as Australian Base Launches

US-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) LogicMonitor is on the hunt for Australian channel partners as it opens its first local base in Sydney.

LogicMonitor Unveils Partner Program to Expand and Strengthen Global Partner Network

LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for enterprise IT and Managed Service Providers, announced a comprehensive partner program at the company’s annual customer advisory board composed of leading enterprise and Managed Service Provider customers. The LogicMonitor Partner Network formalizes the company’s global partner ecosystem, providing partners with the necessary resources to capitalize on LogicMonitor’s best of breed performance monitoring platform.

LogicMonitor Announces Inaugural Level Up Conference in Austin

LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for enterprise IT and Managed Service Providers, today announced a series of global events that will help IT professionals modernize monitoring and decision-making in hybrid IT environments.

7 Best Amazon Web Services (AWS) Monitoring Services

LogicMonitor is a cloud-based service which provides in-depth monitoring of AWS resources while providing comprehensive coverage for existing on-premises infrastructure. It supports most AWS options such as EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS, SQS, and more. It will pull application-level metrics from EC2 instances running Nginx, MySQL, Kafka, and hundreds of other applications.

How To Build A Winning Sales Culture

Strengthening the sales culture in a business should be a key goal for any company – it’s the engine of commerce and this is extremely important in the highly competitive IT sales arena. A successful sales culture starts with the right strategy, writes Mark Banfield, Chief Revenue Officer at LogicMonitor.

LogicMonitor Introduces Container Monitoring Solutions for Monitoring Containerized Applications

The leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for Enterprise IT, LogicMonitor has introduced two solutions, Kubernetes container monitoring, and LM Service Insight, for monitoring effective microservices and containerized applications.

The 5 Best Network Monitoring Tools and Software for Professionals

Businesses and organizations have grown increasingly reliant on networks in their operations and you would not imagine just how much a small network issue can affect a business.

How to Succeed at Patch Management While Staying Sane

Trying to keep your systems up to date can seem like an impossible task, especially in a larger IT shop, but fortunately, you don't have to do the job all at once.

CMO’s Top 8 Martech Stories for the Week – 24 January 2019

First-party data and data services company, Dynata, has reached an agreement to acquire Reimagine Holdings Group, a leader in data creation and technology-enabled business intelligence. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close in Q1 2019.

Will 2019 be a Breakthrough for Enterprise Cloud Computing

Innovations keep on pouring in cloud computing. Fueled by an ever-expanding market, the cloud is witnessing significant growth and adoption rates continue flourishing. Forecasts and research clearly hint at a paradigm shift for enterprise cloud in 2019.

LogicMonitor to Present at AIOps Expo Florida 2019

LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for Enterprise IT and Managed Service Providers, announced today that Gadi Oren, Vice President of Product, will be presenting at AIOps Expo, January 30 – February 1, 2019, at the Greater Fort Lauderdale Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

LogicMonitor Launches Container Monitoring Solutions

LogicMonitor, the SaaS-based performance monitoring platform provider for enterprise IT and managed service providers, has introduced two solutions for monitoring dynamic microservices and containerised applications: Kubernetes container monitoring and LM Service Insight.

LogicMonitor’s Kubernetes Container Monitoring Delivers Superior Insight for DevOps Environments

LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for enterprise IT and Managed Service Providers, today introduced two innovations to help engineers monitor their dynamic microservices and containerized applications: Kubernetes container monitoring and LM Service Insight™.

Top Seven IT Security Trends in 2019

Ensuring data privacy became the main challenge for many organisations in 2018. While Europe was desperately getting ready for GDPR compliance, the rest of the world was deeply affected by data privacy scandals around Google and Facebook. In the foreseeable future protection of data privacy and security will become a key target for the majority of organizations.

Organizations are Still Far off From Relying on a Single Public Cloud

In an effort to better how companies are managing their workloads in the cloud, LogicMonitor surveyed 135 cloud professionals at this year's AWS re:Invent conference.

Cloud Professionals at AWS re:Invent Predict a Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Future

LogicMonitor, the leading hybrid cloud SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for Enterprise IT, polled 135 cloud professionals at AWS re:Invent to explore how companies are managing their workloads in the data center and in the cloud. The survey shows more than half of respondents are engaging with multiple public cloud platforms and that 11 percent have hybrid workloads combining both on-premisess and public cloud.

Pre-re:Invent Hype Illustrates the Growing Importance of the AWS Ecosystem

What started as an event to evangelize, publicize and popularize Amazon’s groundbreaking system of rentable IT infrastructure has rapidly evolved into an influential industry gathering celebrating all things cloud.

VMblog's Expert Interviews: LogicMonitor Talks Cloud Migration, Lessons Learned, Planning and More

While at VMworld, you may have gotten your hands on a new book that was recently launched titled, "Preparing for Your Migration to the Cloud," written by LogicMonitor founder, Steve Francis.

Opinion: Top 5 Myths About Cloud Adoption in Asia

In today’s competitive age of digital transformation, organizations have to move and respond rapidly. But companies can’t drive new business initiatives that grow revenues, reduce costs and mitigate risk without the ability to tailor IT infrastructure to match the needs of the business. Cloud makes this possible.

LogicMonitor Launches Google Cloud Platform Capabilities

Companies that have invested in multi-cloud deployments can now comprehensively view the health, performance, usage and spend of all public cloud investments, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), in a single view using LogicMonitor’s enhanced LM Cloud solution.

LogicMonitor Launches Google Cloud Platform Capabilities for Expanded Multi-Cloud Performance Monitoring

LogicMonitor appoints EMEA Sales Director

LogicMonitor Bolsters Global Leadership Team with Two Seasoned Industry Executives

New Book by LogicMonitor Founder is the First Comprehensive Guide for Businesses Preparing for Migration to the Cloud

Today a new book, “Preparing for Your Migration to the Cloud,” written by LogicMonitor founder, Steve Francis, and published by O’Reilly Media, launched. The publication, developed specifically for IT operations teams, is the first step-by-step guide for businesses planning to migrate or actively migrating to the cloud, with chapters documenting lessons learned from cloud migration contributed by leaders at Orange Business Services, Q2, Lewan Technology, Long View Systems, and SPS Commerce.

Q&A with LogicMonitor: on Enterprise IT Monitoring and the LM Cloud by LogicMonitor

Managing today’s modern enterprise IT environment has become increasingly challenging. Many companies are finding that traditional monitoring strategies and tools no longer suffice given that the way they do business has also changed radically.

Modernization of IT services potentially cuts both ways for MSPs

A major shift in terms of how IT services are monitored and managed that is being driven by a need to correlate events in real time creates both risk and opportunity for managed services providers (MSPs).

Multi-cloud monitoring keeps Q2 integrated operations center humming

Q2 adopted an open-source microservices architecture enabled by container technologies – and built a new IOC to highlight its incident response prowess.

Next-Generation Technologies Drive Widespread Adoption of Modern IT Service Delivery Solutions

Cloud-to-the-edge, digital transformation (DX), artificial intelligence (AI), and the proliferation of the subscription economy will impact the future of IT service delivery according to The State of IT Service Delivery Survey conducted by LogicMonitor. Driving this shift will be next-generation technologies (NGTs) and performance monitoring.

Outages Happen

In late October of 1980, the precursor to the modern internet (ARPAnet) failed for an agonizing four hours. Considered to be the first major network outage, engineers scrutinized the failure in hopes of preventing future shutdowns. A lot has evolved since then.

LogicMonitor Launches Terraform Provider, Simplifying the Management of Hybrid IT Infrastructure

LogicMonitor® the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for Enterprise IT, today announced a new integration with Terraform, infrastructure-as-code software from HashiCorp. This new integration delivers increased productivity and visibility to IT by automatically configuring hybrid infrastructure into the LogicMonitor platform.

6 Tips for MSPs Selecting a Performance Monitoring Solution

Flexibility is the key to success as a managed service provider. We manage an increasingly complex and distributed IT landscape.

MSP tools: Virteva consolidates monitoring for better visibility

A mix of off-the-shelf and home-grown tools help MSPs deliver services to their customers. Using automated tools to remotely monitor and manage clients’ IT assets is really the essence of what an MSP does. The MSP industry couldn’t exist without MSP tools.

LogicMonitor CEO On Rapid Growth Initiatives, Channel Expansion And Why An IPO Is 'Still On The Table' After Private Equity Firm Purchase

"Our company is growing incredibly fast, it has been for years, but what's clear is we have a total addressable market that is several billion dollars and it's global," said LogicMonitor President and CEO Kevin McGibben.

Vista Equity Partners to Acquire Majority Stake in LogicMonitor

2018 Software-Defined Data Center 50

LogicMonitor provides a SaaS-based performance monitoring system for on-premisess and cloud IT systems — everything from data center servers to cloud applications running on AWS and Azure. The platform can predict when problems might occur while providing a single-pane-of-glass view for customers.

Executive Viewpoint 2018 Prediction: LogicMonitor – The Future of the Cloud

Where is public cloud going in the next few years? We set out to answer that question here at LogicMonitor and executed a survey in advance of (and also at) Amazon’s annual AWS re:Invent show in Las Vegas.

MSP Lewan Technology Monitoring 'Just About Anything' As Services Sales Surge

Fast-growing managed service provider Lewan Technology increased services sales last year by more than 20 percent thanks to its monitoring-as-a-service (MaaS) solution, which uses LogicMonitor.

Lewan and Virteva select LogicMonitor for unified monitoring, improved visibility, and to monetize monitoring

Lewan and Virteva, two leading Managed Service Providers, are growing their bottom lines with LogicMonitor®, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for Service Providers.

Data security still main reason for staying out of cloud, study finds

According to LogicMonitor’s “The Future of the Cloud – Cloud Influencers Survey,” by 2020, the share of workloads running in the public cloud could increase by 10 percent, from 31 to 41 percent.

2018 Channel Chiefs: The 50 Most Influential

LogicMonitor's sales team has leveraged Powell's expertise, and past success leading MSP practices, to work with partners and consult with potential customers on how to transform their businesses and adopt more managed services. Developing strong connections early in the process has translated to increased sales.

The Best Cloud Computing Companies To Work For In 2018 Based On Glassdoor

Employees at Mendix, Reltio, Zoho, Google, SAP, Netskope, OutSystems and LogicMonitor are the most likely to recommend their employers to friends looking for a cloud computing company to work for in 2018. These and other insights are from an analysis completed today to determine the best cloud computing companies and CEOs to work for this year.

In sales, it's either feast or famine. Here's how 4 Austin teams make sure they're eating well

We’ve covered the sales team traditions of Austin tech before. But for anyone who has worked in sales, you know the celebrations are only half of it.

The 20 Coolest Cloud Software Vendors Of The 2018 Cloud 100

LogicMonitor provides a SaaS-based performance monitoring system for on-premisess and cloud IT systems — everything from data center servers and network hardware to cloud applications running on AWS and Microsoft Azure. While in-house IT management is a key market for LogicMonitor, managed service providers are a growing part of the company’s customer base. In August the company launched a performance monitoring platform for the service provider market.

A majority of IT workloads will move to the cloud by 2020, report says

Advancements being made in artificial intelligence and machine learning are fueling a move to the cloud. A newly released report from LogicMonitor predicts enterprises will relocate a majority of their IT workloads from the data center to the cloud by 2020 as more intelligent devices, such as those used in IoT, begin to come online.

83% Of Enterprise Workloads Will Be In The Cloud By 2020

These insights and findings are from LogicMonitor’s Cloud Vision 2020: The Future of the Cloud Study.

LogicMonitor survey finds digital transformation and AI are driving public cloud adoption

The move towards the public cloud is just beginning. A new survey released by LogicMonitor finds a majority of respondents’ enterprises plan to migrate their IT workloads from the data center to the cloud by 2020.

The Cloud Competition Intensifies – Rapid Growth Ahead for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform

A new LogicMonitor® survey of nearly 300 industry influencers predicts that enterprises will migrate the majority of their IT workloads from the data center to the cloud by 2020. Fueling this transition will be the 20.8 billion IoT devices Gartner predicts will come online, and the rapid maturation of AI and machine learning technologies. The Future of the Cloud Study also finds that while Amazon holds a dominant leadership position in the public cloud market, Microsoft and Google are closing that gap.

AI, IoT to Drive Enterprise Public Cloud Growth: Survey

By 2020, enterprise IT will see a growing shift to public cloud infrastructure as IT staff seek help implementing their company's artificial intelligence, internet of things and machine learning strategies in the future.

2020: The magic year public cloud becomes more popular than on-premisess

The public cloud will officially surpass on-premisess workload popularity in 2020, according to new research from Software as a Service (SaaS) platform provider LogicMonitor.

LogicMonitor Named One of the Best Places to Work in 2018

LogicMonitor®, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for Enterprise IT, has been honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, recognizing the Best Places to Work in 2018. The Employees' Choice Awards program, now in its 10th year, relies solely on the input of employees.

LogicMonitor Announces Improved Ability to Capture and Measure AWS ROI

LogicMonitor®, a leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for enterprise IT, today introduced new features to its LM Cloud solution that deliver clear cost analysis by region, service and now operation. This gives comprehensive visibility to Amazon Web Services (AWS) investment with real-time ROI assessment.

The Top 21 Cloud Monitoring Tools for 2018

Let’s do a visualization exercise. Imagine it’s December 31, 2018, and you’re ringing in the New Year with your friends and family.

LogicMonitor Receives Application Certification from ServiceNow

LogicMonitor®, a leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for Enterprise IT, today announced it has received certification of its application with ServiceNow®. Certification by ServiceNow signifies that LogicMonitor has successfully completed a set of defined tests focused on integration interoperability, security and performance. The certification also ensures that best practices are utilized in the design and implementation of LogicMonitor’s application with ServiceNow.

LogicMonitor Extends Reach to the Cloud

LogicMonitor has been making available performance monitoring tools as software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications for several years now. At the Microsoft Ignite conference this week, the company announced it is adding a module through which IT organizations can gain similar insights into public cloud computing services.

LogicMonitor Adds Cloud Monitoring to Performance Monitoring Platform

LogicMonitor Inc. has shipped an add-on for its flagship performance monitoring platform that gives administrators dramatically enhanced visibility into the public cloud portion of hybrid cloud environments.

LogicMonitor Adds Cloud Monitoring Service to Performance Monitoring Platform

Software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based monitoring provider LogicMonitor released a new version of its performance monitoring software to analyze workloads in the cloud.

LogicMonitor Launches Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure Cloud Monitoring Platform

LogicMonitor has launched LM Cloud, a cloud services monitoring platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure resources.

LogicMonitor Unveils LM Cloud™ Bringing SaaS-based Performance Monitoring to Multi-Cloud Environments

LogicMonitor®, the leader in SaaS-based performance monitoring for complex IT infrastructure, today introduced LM Cloud™, the total solution for cloud services monitoring. By providing real-time visibility into the performance of cloud services, LM Cloud enables IT departments to maximize their investments and proactively prevent downtime of critical applications and processes.

Beer Taps, Deep Fryers And BBQ Smokers: 5 Unique Ways MSPs Are Using LogicMonitor To Enable IoT

LogicMonitor has been pleasantly surprised at the unique ways its channel partners are using its SaaS-based performance monitoring platform to drive net new Internet of Things sales.

Hot products at VMworld 2017

LogicMonitor’s Kubernetes monitoring making it the only end-to-end monitoring tool for Kubernetes in a VMware powered infrastructure.

LogicMonitor delivers end-to-end monitoring platform for Kubernetes in VMware-powered infrastructure

LogicMonitor, a SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for complex, hybrid IT infrastructure, announced on Monday support for Kubernetes. This capability allows operations teams running Kubernetes in VMware-powered environments to troubleshoot any issues regardless of origin, from physical components to ephemeral resources.

LogicMonitor Announces Support for Kubernetes, Becomes the Only End-to-End Monitoring Platform for Kubernetes in a VMware-Powered Infrastructure

LogicMonitor®, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for complex, hybrid IT infrastructure, today announced support for Kubernetes. This capability allows operations teams running Kubernetes in VMware-powered environments to troubleshoot any issues regardless of origin, from physical components to ephemeral resources.

30 Hot Products To Check Out Right Now

The fast-growing Software-as-a-Service monitoring specialist LogicMonitor recently revealed a performance monitoring platform targeting service providers that improves configuration management and co-management capabilities for channel partners and customers. LogicMonitor is carving out and enhancing pieces from its flagship SaaS-based performance monitoring solution designed specifically for the service provider market.

VMblog's Expert Interviews: LogicMonitor Talks Full Stack Monitoring, Trends and Futures

Just ahead of VMworld, I was able to catch up with Steve Francis, founder and chief evangelist at LogicMonitor, to learn more about the company's monitoring solution, challenges facing today's enterprise organizations, industry trends and more.

The Top 25 Disrupters Of 2017

22. Kevin McGibben President & CEO of LogicMonitor Kevin McGibben plans to aggressively grow LogicMonitor's service provider business through the hiring of channel thought leader and MSP maestro David Powell.

Kevin McGibben of LogicMonitor Recognized on CRN’s List of Top 100 Executives

LogicMonitor®, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for complex, hybrid IT infrastructure, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Kevin McGibben, president and CEO, to its 2017 list of Top 100 Executives.

LogicMonitor Announces Gold Sponsorship of Cisco Live

LogicMonitor®, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for complex, hybrid IT infrastructure, today announced they will be a Gold Sponsor of this year’s Cisco Live event.

LogicMonitor Performance Monitoring Extends from Midmarket to Enterprise Service Providers

Plenty of midmarket MSPs leverage LogicMonitor’s performance monitoring platform. But now the company is expanding its platform to meet a “specific set of business needs” for enterprise service providers.

CRN Exclusive: LogicMonitor Rolls Out New Performance Monitoring Tool Customized For The Channel

LogicMonitor has introduced a performance monitoring platform for service providers that improves configuration management and co-management capabilities for channel partners and their customers.

LogicMonitor Unveils Service Provider Platform to Provide SaaS-Based IT Performance Monitoring Built for Enterprise Service Provider Market

LogicMonitor®, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for complex and distributed IT infrastructures, today unveiled its Service Provider Platform™.

LogicMonitor Appoints Former UnboundID Executive Michael Tarbet as Vice President of Sales to Scale Enterprise Market for IT Performance Monitoring

LogicMonitor®, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for complex and distributed IT infrastructures, today announced the appointment of Michael Tarbet as Vice President of Sales. Michael brings 20 years of sales leadership experience in startup, high growth, and market leading companies including UnboundID, RightNow Technologies, and Oracle.

LogicMonitor Launches Configuration Management Product

XChange: Solution Providers Need To Go Back To Consultative Roots To Keep Up With The Cloud Copy

As more companies deal with new complicated consumption models emerging with the cloud, solution providers must also revamp their business models to be more relevant, according to David Powell, general manager of LogicMonitor's service provider business.

2017 Impact Awards: Systems Management Winner

As managing both on-premisess and cloud-based environments grows more complex, system administrators are placing more value on tools that offer them different ways to monitor existing performance and forecast future performance.

The Best Business Products of 2016

We've tested several hundred Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business applications in the PC Labs over the past year, and found that 42 SaaS apps are the heads of their classes in 13 categories. These are the ones you should buy for your business to prepare for success in 2017.

5 Channel Partner Updates: December 8, 2016

Good morning, channel partners. Here are five technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Thursday, December 8, 2016.

LogicMonitor Drives IT Transformation for Top Enterprise Companies Quora and Ted Baker

LogicMonitor®, the SaaS-based infrastructure monitoring platform for agile and complex IT organizations, today announced that it has been chosen by top enterprise companies Quora and Ted Baker to manage their IT transformation efforts.

Cloud Services – LogicMonitor

LogicMonitor is a venerable, all-in-one IT management tool that spans network monitoring as well as infrastructure managementand website monitoring. For that reason, LogicMonitor is equally at home keeping track of websites as it is monitoring applications, cloud services, databases, infrastructure, networks, storage, virtual machines (VMs), and more using just a single user interface. 

Cool tech at AWS re:Invent

Amazon Web Service’s re:Invent conference is one of the premier showcases for new cloud technology spanning across the infrastructure, platform and software as a service markets. Check out some of the hottest products being announced or displayed at the show, from new tools for managing big data to products that help optimize your cloud use to ones that help secure your environment.

ConnectWise IT Nation 2016: Five Things to Watch

Thousands of technology service providers  — MSPs, VARs, etc. — are set to attend IT Nation 2016, hosted by ConnectWise. Yes, ChannelE2E will be on hand to cover the conference. So what will we be tracking? Here are five key points to consider.

3 Tech Disrupters On How They Are Tapping Channel Partners To Leapfrog Industry Stalwarts

The advent of cloud computing has created unparalleled prospects for channel partners crafting fresh new solutions built on disruptive technology. At last month's XChange 2016 conference, hosted by CRN parent The Channel Company, CRN editors sat down with executives from some of the industry's cloud upstarts to find out just how big the opportunities really are.

MSP, CSP Pioneer David Powell Joins LogicMonitor

TekLinks VP David Powell, well-known within MSP and CSP circles, has joinedLogicMonitor as GM of the company’s service provider business, according to his LinkedIn profile. Powell is one of the rare IT channel executives who has successfully navigated the VAR, MSP and CSP waves — essentially blending all three models into a total solutions provider approach.

LogicMonitor Showcases SaaS-based Azure Monitoring at Microsoft Ignite, Demonstrating How Automated Monitoring of Dynamic IaaS Instances Enables Enterprise IT Transformation

Channel Visionary Powell Set To Lead A Channel Application Services Revolution At LogicMonitor

David Powell, a channel thought leader who helped lay the groundwork for recurring revenue sales growth at one of the top managed service providers in the country, has taken a new job at LogicMonitor aimed at leading the channel to a new era of "application-centric" and business outcome services sales growth.

Disruptor Roundtable: Channel Is Crucial To Market Disruption

When it comes to market disruption, time to market is a crucial element to success. According to leaders from disruptive IT companies, that’s where channel partners come into play.

LogicMonitor Continues EU Expansion, Announces Sponsorship of Managed Services and Hosting Summit UK 2016

VMware VMworld 2016: Top 50 Highlights

As VMware‘s VMworld 2016 unfolds in Las Vegas, ChannelE2E will be compiling all the major news and develops into one continuous blog. This one. We expect to offer you at least 50 updates between now and VMworld’s conclusion on Sept. 1, 2016. So let the games — and the blog — begin. Here’s the lineup so far. Keep checking back for more updates every few hours.

The Best Network Monitoring Software of 2016

We test and compare the top network monitoring software solutions that help businesses manage the networking services that are critical to the health and functionality of their data centers.

LogicMonitor Showcases Agentless VMware Monitoring with Over 100 Metrics at VMworld 2016

LogicMonitor finds a foothold in a hybrid world

In June, SaaS-based performance monitoring vendor LogicMonitor agreed to $130m in funding from Providence Strategic Growth. It plans to use the investment for driving growth, continuing product development, expanding into new territories, and developing new analytics capabilities.

Five useful tips for migrating to the public cloud

More and more businesses are moving critical applications out of their data centres and into the public cloud, so easing the way to full or part public cloud migration is high on the priority list for most enterprise IT departments.

This startup raised a mammoth $130 million investment by bucking the conventional Silicon Valley wisdom

LogicMonitor, a Santa Barbara-based startup, is taking a whopping $130 million investment from Providence Strategic Growth, an affiliate of Providence Equity Partners.

Startup LogicMonitor Raises $130 Million for Global Expansion

LogicMonitor Inc., which helps companies manage their technology systems in data centers, has raised $130 million to help expand its product lineup and global reach.

Private equity strikes again with $130M LogicMonitor investment

Private equity firms have certainly been flexing their muscles this year, whether Thomas Bravo snagging Qlik for $3 billion or Vista Equity Partners grabbing Marketo for $1.9 billionand Ping Identity for another $600 million. Apparently Providence Strategic Growth, the growth investment arm of Providence Equity didn’t want to be left out and today they announced a $130 million investment in LogicMonitor, a cloud infrastructure monitoring service.

LogicMonitor Accelerates Growth with $130M Investment from Providence Equity

LogicMonitor Rolls a Time Series Database for Finer-Grain Reporting

As applications monitoring software continues to evolve to handle ever-greater numbers of data points, as well as changes to how data is queried, and how it is stored, accessed, streamed, and maintained. Rather than utilize one of the many streaming-oriented database systems available today built to handle such tumultuous workloads, LogicMonitor has developed and released its time series database (TSDB) for its infrastructure monitoring service.

LogicMonitor Review

LogicMonitor is an agentless network monitoring software solution that can keep an eye on your applications, cloud services, databases, infrastructure, networks, storage, virtual machines (VMs), and website monitoring data using a single interface.

LogicMonitor Joins the Cisco Solution Partner Program

Found: A Truly Next-Generation MSP

The hunt is over. We’ve finally found a next-generation MSP that links managed DevOps services to cloud computing. But before we mention the MSP by name, I’d like to describe ChannelE2E’s journey to discovering this particular managed services provider.

2016 Updates from LogicMonitor UK

LogicMonitor made some large investments late last year in its European expansion so that we can better serve our current customers in the UK/EU market. From launching our UK data center, to opening our new office in the heart of London, we’ve been rather busy!

LogicMonitor Unveils Product Integrations with PagerDuty and Slack

13 Ways the Cloud Has Changed (Since Last You Looked)

The definition of cloud computing has always been, well, a bit cloudy. The basic idea has been straightforward: If it’s not calculated or stored in a rack in your own office on metal you can touch, it’s in the cloud. If it’s someone else’s machine in someone else’s colo, it’s in the cloud.

Midmarket Managed Services: CWPS Cracks the Code

CWPS, one of the most successful MSPs serving customers in Washington, D.C, has successfully stormed the midmarket and scaled its 150-person business accordingly. The company’s growth numbers are staggering — with recurring revenues jumping 40 percent in 2015, and many of the wins involving customers with 500 to 2000 seats.

LogicMonitor Announces Partnership with Leading IT Managed Services Provider CWPS

‘Is it Down for Just Me?’ LogicMonitor May Have the Answer

As businesses continue to make the shift to cloud-based solutions across their application architecture, obtaining operational performance information is crucial to success. Enterprises require visibility into how the various parts of their organization combine to form a cohesive whole. That’s where LogicMonitor steps in, offering a way for companies to not only monitor their underlying infrastructure but view the entire digital forest rather than just a single line of trees.

Top 50 Cloud Monitoring and Management Tools

When it comes to finding the ‘best’ cloud monitoring and management tools, there’s no shortage of options. No doubt, customers and service providers want to optimize, manage and monitor workloads and containers across Amazon Web Services, IBM SoftLayer, Microsoft Azure and Office 365, Google, Oracle, Salesforce.com and other public clouds.

LogicMonitor Updates Autotask Integration: Here's What MSPs Need to Know

LogicMonitor has added two-way ticketing functionality to its Autotask integration to streamline workflows for its managed service provider customers. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) monitoring platform provider has updated its Autotask integration, which now "streamlines the workflow for managing service desk tickets created by LogicMonitor's IT performance monitoring alerting engine, providing users an up-to-date view of device performance."

LogicMonitor Advances Integration with Leading MSP Business Management Solution Autotask

LogicMonitor Announces Successful Completion of SOC 2 Type 1 Audit of SaaS Platform

LogicMonitor to Offer its SaaS-based Performance Monitoring Platform to Citrix GoToAssist Customers

LogicMonitor Sponsors Puppet Conf. 2015

LogicMonitor Invests in European Business Expansion

LogicMonitor Revolutionizes Amazon Web Services (AWS) Performance Monitoring

LogicMonitor Introduces Executive Dashboards at VMworld 2015

LogicMonitor Sponsors 2015 AutoTask Community Live

LogicMonitor Releases Major Update in Network Traffic Flow Analysis Capabilities

LogicMonitor Wins 2015 Modern Infrastructure Impact Award for ‘Best DevOps and Cloud Management’

LogicMonitor Recognized as 2014 Top NetApp Solution Provider