by Johana Scoup | 1/04/2019 | Updates
When you’re close to losing your nerve, and you know that violence is the only answer, perhaps punching and kicking your system may be just what it takes to provide some much needed relief. Never fear, Centreon is here to help, introducing our new solution to your IT...
by Johana Scoup | 11/03/2019 | User Stories
Guest Article By Author Zisse Hanfling-Mueller As a member of the IT Central Station team, Zisse applies the creative passions and organizational skills to the IT platform. With a degree in communications and graphic design, she enjoys working in the professional...
by Johana Scoup | 12/02/2019 | Best Practices
Your IT tools have been through it all with you. Secret weapon, faithful companion and right arm; they’ve seen you through the greatest IT challenges. To help you choose an IT infrastructure monitoring solution that fully deserves its place in your tool box,...
by Johana Scoup | 12/02/2019 | Best Practices, Updates
Let’s set the stage with what we know already: in the digital economy, an organization’s performance is entirely dependent on the smooth operations of its IT system. How are employees expected to do their job well if their mission-critical applications and...
by Johana Scoup | 14/11/2018 | Best Practices
Although your role is to enable the creation of value, value is not necessarily created in the traditional brick and mortar of just your office. Value is created where your end-users work. More often than not, this is happening in multiple places, far, far away from...
by Johana Scoup | 7/11/2018 | Best Practices
Here’s a question to which we can now provide a pleasant answer: Should building resiliency into an IT system require heavy investment in resources, like expensive, new infrastructure or hiring a larger team of IT professionals? The answer: Absolutely not! Empowering...
by Johana Scoup | 31/10/2018 | Best Practices
Like 99.9% of businesses managing extensive, mission-critical systems, your organization has embarked on a never-ending quest for agility, invoking the magic password: STREAMLINE. Everyone’s in on the race to streamline operations and processes to lower operating...
by Johana Scoup | 22/10/2018 | Updates
If you are an ITOM leader who’s looking to better consolidate monitoring of your worldwide operations and hybrid infrastructure… If you manage mission-critical NOCs over several data centers… Or, if you are a Managed Service Provider monitoring diverse customers’...
by Johana Scoup | 19/10/2018 | Software Releases
In the coming weeks, Centreon will announce its newest version of the software suite. Version 18.10 will bring its fair share of new functionalities, with specific changes kept under wraps until its release. We’ll also announce a new versioning scheme, including...
by Johana Scoup | 11/09/2018 | Best Practices
Although it is the true stuff of heroes which most IT practitioners would sprinkle on their food if they could, agility has nothing to do with magic, even less so with serendipity. Let’s gently push away this unicorn and agree that your organization is fighting for...
by Johana Scoup | 23/08/2018 | Updates
Although it is the true stuff of heroes which most IT practitioners would sprinkle on their food if they could, agility has nothing to do with magic, even less so with serendipity. Let’s gently push away this unicorn and agree that your organization is fighting for...
by Johana Scoup | 2/08/2018 | Updates
While most people want this vacation month to last forever, quite a few of us here at Centreon can’t wait for September. Oh we love the hiking, the canoeing, the fishing and the grilled marshmallows. But we can’t help it, topics like IS observability, scalability or...
by Johana Scoup | 17/07/2018 | Updates
Monitorama is finally coming back to our side of the Atlantic, and we’re pleased. Let’s make it a date. Monitorama Amsterdam, the Open Source Monitoring & Observability Conference, is happening on September 4 and 5, 2018. Centreon is a proud sponsor of the...
by Johana Scoup | 2/07/2018 | Updates
Interview by Eileen LEE LAVERGNE, Chief Marketing Officer. If the video does not appear, the text is below: How can we help companies to reach level 3, because that’s the minimum requirement? For them to move to level 3, they need to look at how they might pull up...
by Johana Scoup | 2/07/2018 | Updates
Interview by Eileen LEE LAVERGNE, Chief Marketing Officer. If the video does not appear, the text is below: Which topic from the Gartner I&O Management Summit in Frankfurt did catch your attention? There was a presentation from Milind Govekar from Gartner, one...
by Johana Scoup | 11/06/2018 | User Stories
A market-leading international cooperative group adopts Centreon EMS to implement an innovative, company-wide monitoring process. The result is real-time visibility into their entire IT system and streamlined IT practices. Customer Context The client is a global...
by Johana Scoup | 28/05/2018 | Updates
So sorry dear, I’m not available just this minute. No one likes to hear these words, although they are much more polite than “Error fatal unhandled exception system.objectdisposedexception cannot access a disposed object”. Whichever way you may translate...
by Johana Scoup | 22/05/2018 | Updates
Will you be attending the Frankfurt Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit on June 5th and 6th? If you’re decided on uncovering new, better ways to drive performance and streamline operations, come have a chat with us. Wherever you’ll be this...
by Johana Scoup | 15/05/2018 | Updates
The Centreon team will be at the Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit, taking place on June 5 and 6, 2018 in Frankfurt (Germany). We’re proud sponsors of the event and we’d love to see you there! If you’ve not yet registered, read on to find...
by Johana Scoup | 2/05/2018 | Best Practices
So you’re done with the deployment of your IT monitoring system. It’s been carefully designed, configured, and implemented. A bright new era of active monitoring is starting. But is it really the end of the journey? Not at all! Every day is a new adventure, as you...
by Johana Scoup | 11/04/2018 | Updates
The Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit will take place on June 5 and 6, 2018 in Frankfurt (Germany). Take the opportunity to (re)discover Centreon, the all-in-one IT monitoring software suite, and talk to us about your projects! Gartner:...
by Johana Scoup | 11/04/2018 | Updates
The Annual Convention of the CRiP will take place on June 12 & 13, 2018 in Paris. Take the opportunity to (re)discover Centreon, the all-in-one IT monitoring software suite and talk to us about your projects! The CRiP (French Club for Infrastructure and Production...
by Johana Scoup | 4/04/2018 | Updates
The 6th edition of the Swiss IT Business exhibition will take place on 24-25 April 2018 in Geneva. Take the opportunity to (re)discover Centreon, the all-in-one IT monitoring software suite and discuss about your projects with Open-IT team, reseller and integrator...
by Johana Scoup | 6/03/2018 | Updates
A regular of the annual French Club of infrastructure and operation leader’s convention (CRiP), Centreon is sponsoring the ITES Innovation Summit in Deauville (Normandy, France), on March 15-17, 2018. CRiP’s I&O members and solution providers will be participating...
by Johana Scoup | 23/02/2018 | Updates
Centreon is happy to announce that Lolokai Conseil becomes a Centreon Advanced Partner. By obtaining its Centreon EMS certification, Lolokai Conseil joins the official Centreon partner club. As an IT monitoring expert, Lolokai Conseil provides high added value IT...
by Johana Scoup | 28/11/2017 | Best Practices
Deploying Centreon in an extensive multi-system monitoring operation? Migrating from Nagios/FAN, similar open source tools or early versions of Centreon? Require specific adaptation or development expertise? Simply need help with a Proof of Concept (PoC)? Even with...
by Johana Scoup | 16/11/2017 | News coverage
Once upon a time was IT monitoring. A nice Swiss army knife which had the solution to everyone’s monitoring problems. But that was before… Before the Cloud, SaaS, serverless, agility, automation, machine learning, AI… In just a few years, monitoring has...
by Johana Scoup | 13/11/2017 | User Stories
By centralizing its monitoring with Centreon, the departmental council of Haut-Rhin (France) increases its productivity and proactiveness! Challenges Replace multiple platforms, monitoring hardware only, with a single monitoring solution Centralize monitoring and...
by Johana Scoup | 31/10/2017 | Updates
Meet Centreon during the Paris Open Source Summit (POSS) on December 06 & 07, 2017! Booth C10 and A15: exchanges with the Centreon team, workshop Centreon. Program coming soon! The Paris Open Source Summit is the top line european event empowering open innovation....
by Johana Scoup | 13/10/2017 | News coverage
By obtaining its Centreon EMS certification, TeamWork will be able to offer its clients high added value IT Monitoring services and join the official Centreon partner club. TeamWork, specialized in consulting, integrating, outsourcing of SAP solutions and technology...
by Johana Scoup | 11/10/2017 | Updates
Centreon is happy to announce that TeamWork becomes a Centreon Advanced Partner. By obtaining its Centreon EMS certification, TeamWork will be able to offer its clients high added value IT Monitoring services and join the official Centreon partner club. Specialized in...
by Johana Scoup | 9/10/2017 | Updates
We are happy to announce that Centreon is selected to participate to the French Tech Tour America 2017. Romain Le Merlus, CEO & Co-Founder and Marc-Antoine Hostier, Chief Sales Officer, will be in Toronto from October 16 to 20 and in Montreal from October 23 to 26...
by Johana Scoup | 27/09/2017 | News coverage
If the origins of IT monitoring are the same as those of IT itself, its use has only really grown over the past 20 years alongside the generalized deployment of IT in business. For a long time it was restricted to technical monitoring, production and infrastructure...
by Johana Scoup | 7/08/2017 | Best Practices
As part of Centreon’s software provider family, Centreon TechSupport (CTS) has seen and worked on the simplest problems to the most complicated of issues in its application. CTS gets right to the heart of the problem with the help of Centreon’s entire team of...
by Johana Scoup | 3/08/2017 | Best Practices
Here are 6 good reasons to monitor. 1-Real-time visibility of your IS and targeted informations Real-time control of IS and its components and dashboards adapted to user profiles for performance monitoring. 2-Decrease of IT service interruptions IT monitoring...
by Johana Scoup | 10/07/2017 | Software Releases
IT service management (ITSM) has become pivotal to business success in the digital economy. A critical element to this is IT monitoring intelligence that is easily understood for strategic business decisions. Centreon MBI is the modular software that delivers this...
by Johana Scoup | 2/07/2017 | News coverage
Partnerships and Strategic Alliances are central to Centreon’s 2017 growth strategy In order to support its development, Centreon is launching a “Partnership and Alliance” policy with IT services companies in order to serve the key account and...
by Johana Scoup | 22/06/2017 | Best Practices
Through experience, we know that many monitoring projects start when an intern arrives in the company (it’s even how Centreon was born) and is put under the orders of an overworked “adminsys” who follows the project as best they can. With Enterprise and business...
by Johana Scoup | 5/06/2017 | News coverage
New strategy, new commitments for Centreon in 2017 From free open source to hybrid models, Centreon has undergone a smooth transformation since the company began, thanks to tailored IT Monitoring solutions meeting the needs of medium-sized companies, key accounts and...
by Johana Scoup | 11/05/2017 | Software Releases
Centreon increases the security of its software required the audit of our solution to satisfy the requirements of ISO 27001. Centreon worked with its partners and users to correct a set of vulnerabilities. It is strongly recommended to Centreon’s users to update their...
by Johana Scoup | 10/05/2017 | Software Releases
In enterprise monitoring, being able to visualize the performance of entire networks and IT infrastructure has become a given. Less obvious is the ability to communicate pertinent values: how graphic displays address various monitoring and ITOM objectives? Centreon...
by Johana Scoup | 18/04/2017 | Updates
The 5th edition of the Swiss IT Business exhibition will take place on 30-31 May 2017 in Geneva. Come and meet Open-IT team, our reseller and integrator partner in Swiss, Booth IT 57. To (re)discover Centreon, attend to the workshop “You like Nagios, you will love...
by Johana Scoup | 12/04/2017 | Software Releases
According to an IDC survey of 2014, 40% of SMB IT managers simultaneously manage physical, virtual and cloud-based operations. Small or not, they have to deal with a diversity of IT assets, and integrating good monitoring for each of them takes some knowledge and...
by Johana Scoup | 10/03/2017 | User Stories
The Office of Post and Telecommunications of New Caledonia has implemented a real-time centralized monitoring with Centreon. Challenges Implement a centralized monitoring for the company (dedicated team and software platform) Provide an overall view in real time of...
by Johana Scoup | 3/03/2017 | Best Practices
Monitoring tools are above all intended for IT professionals so that they can secure and automate their information system monitoring. But not only… The new generations of tools such as Centreon EMS make it possible to consider monitoring outside the restricted...
by Johana Scoup | 3/03/2017 | Software Releases, Software Releases
Business continuity is defined as “the capability of an organization to continue delivery of products or services at acceptable pre-defined levels following a disruptive incident” (source: ISO 22301:2012, Business Continuity Institute). This requires IT leaders to...
by Johana Scoup | 24/02/2017 | Software Releases
Losses from IT service disruptions and unplanned downtime, although smaller in figures, can be more crippling for SMBs/SMEs than for large enterprise. Indeed, data recovery can take up to 9 hours and involve 40% productivity losses which represent $55K-$100K in lost...
by Johana Scoup | 17/02/2017 | Best Practices
Openness and interoperability have become undeniable key criteria for many IT decision-makers. Monitoring has not escaped this trend. Choosing an IT monitoring tool capable of easily communicating in almost real-time with an information system is all the more...
by Johana Scoup | 13/02/2017 | News coverage
Centreon innovates with Centreon IMP by making IT monitoring accessible to smaller enterprises by online subscription. Centreon, the leader in open source monitoring solutions, has adopted a new approach developed following more than ten years’ experience working...
by Johana Scoup | 20/01/2017 | User Stories
Fibre Excellence professionalizes its critical IT equipment and application monitoring with Centreon. Challenges Centralizing and professionalizing critical equipement and application monitoring in multisite environment Respecting the economical constraints by opting...
by Johana Scoup | 19/01/2017 | Best Practices
When presenting our open-source IT Monitoring solution we’re often asked about how we position ourselves against Nagios®. After all, we started as a company in 2005 by developing an open-source web interface to the then-leading solution that did so much to...
by Johana Scoup | 19/01/2017 | Best Practices
IT monitoring tools allow ISD to collect a large amount of data, on a continuous-flow basis. These data are mainly used to make equipment and infrastructure monitoring easier. They also represent a valuable source of knowledge being analyzed and translated into...
by Johana Scoup | 11/01/2017 | Software Releases
For Centreon users and clients, IT interruptions or malfunctions can have critical business impacts: delivered service and QOS degradation, team layoff, loss of turnover, brand image degradation, etc. That’s why Centreon now provides a new complementary support offer...
by Johana Scoup | 18/11/2016 | User Stories
Thanks to an enlarged and accessible IT monitoring system, the Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs Group speaks the Business language. Challenges Centralizing monitoring for nearly 300 sites in France and Europe Having a single entry point to control the indicators...
by Johana Scoup | 14/11/2016 | Best Practices
With an IT monitoring system implementation, the IT department easily collects data on the status and availability of its various IT equipment. The graphic visualisation of collected data, combined with modeling applications status for each business division, becomes...
by Johana Scoup | 5/10/2016 | Updates
Meet Centreon during the POSS 2016, booth N°B26 : exchanges with the Centreon team, workshop Centreon and two conferences. Program coming soon. The Paris Open souce Summit is the top line european event empowering open innovation. The Paris Open Source Summit is the...
by Johana Scoup | 23/08/2016 | Updates
Attend the Netways Open Source Monitoring Conference 2016 and the Centreon conference scheduled on Thursday, December 01, 2016. Attend the Netways Open Source Monitoring Conference 2016 and the Centreon conference scheduled on Thursday, December 01, 2016. Laurent...
