Open-source might not be the first thing you think of with Windows, but these free tools can seriously boost your productivity.

From network and server monitoring to trending, graphing and even switch and router configuration backups, these utilities will see you through.

Because open source IT monitoring solutions will need to become as close to ‘infinitely scalable’ as possible, there has been a lot of debate as to just how far current tools can extend in the ...

The union of open source software into the Windows market is becoming ever more commonplace. So I've compiled another, albiet short list, of some of my latest favorites. All of these are great ...

The use of open source time series database monitoring has helped a European satellite firm, Open Cosmos, meet a unique challenge: supporting a computer in orbit, where you can’t send an engineer when ...

While it may seem sacrilegious to most in the hardcore open source world, the number of community-developed software deployments on Windows is growing as users look for ways to get the benefits of ...

Angry IP Scanner is a free and open source IP scanner for Windows that can show whether an IP address is dead or live. It pings all the IP addresses in a network to determine the activeness of an ...

To enable organizations to get the most value out of any database, anywhere, Redgate SQL Monitor now offers support for SQL Server on Linux.

Rapid7 Inc. announced today it has acquired Velocidex Enterprises Pty. Ltd., the company behind Velociraptor, an open-source technology and community platform focused on cybersecurity monitoring ...

There are templates to monitor a wide variety of devices, from Linux and Windows servers to Cisco routers and switches — basically anything that speaks SNMP.