Hovhannes Avoyan

After covering intellectual property such as copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, and patents (on Monitor.Us Blog), it is time to move on to more IT related topics, such as software licensing. In today’s world of computers and internet, it is important for practically anyone in the business world to have at least a simple understanding of software licensing and how it works. Software is needed for systems, computers and other machines to work properly in almost every part of the global economy. Software applications work in many parts of our day to day lives, from medical devices and programs to financial and even recreational programs. “I have read and agree with terms and conditions” Those who publish software, called “software developers,” need their product to be available for use to those in the market for which the software was created. For example, a softwa... (more)

Building custom monitor with Pentaho Kettle

Monitis open API and available collection of open source monitoring and management scripts provide nice possibility for finding solutions for monitoring your systems. Still there are many cases when you need a specific monitor and do not have or don’t want to spend much time on coding. That is the reason of presenting the very simple and easy way of building custom monitors with Pentaho Data Integration suite. Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) – Kettle is a free, open source ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Loading) tool. Along with powerful data extract, transform and load capa... (more)

This Week in Website Performance

This Week in Website Performance is a weekly feature of the Monitis.com blog. It summarizes recent articles about website performance. Why? Because your friends at Monitis.com care. Performance with Javascript Objects Author: Panagiotis Tsalaportas. Do you use new String() to create new strings rather than a primitive value? Of course! Do you know why? This detailed article discusses why on the surface you should use primitives yet in practice Object Strings are the way to go. A number of tests to examine performance differences are conducted using a range of methods against the ... (more)

Performance Monitoring in SharePoint 2010

What is SharePoint 2010? SharePoint was born out of a simple idea: “Sharing Documents”. Microsoft developed family of software products called “SharePoint”, to perform features like File Sharing, Collaboration, and Web Publishing. In simple terms, SharePoint acts as the single platform to share, communicate, store, and collaborate the content, documents, and records.It is the most widely used technology for document sharing and workflow automation. Why monitor SharePoint 2010? Many users on the internet, extranet and intranet are very unforgiving for slow responses and you will ... (more)

Data Analytics in the Cloud: Two Cool NoSQL ‘Big Data’ Options for the SMB

Some estimates suggest that by 2015 the digital universe will grow to 8 zettabytes of data (1 Zettabyte = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes). Much has been written in recent years about “Big Data” and the implications for Information management and data analytics. Simply put, Big data is data that is too large to process using traditional methods. By ‘traditional methods’ we refer to the relational database environments (RDBMS) where data is organized into a set of formally described tables and often accessed using the structured query language (SQL). These systems were design... (more)