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IT Central Station is a product review site for enterprise technology.
Network monitoring tools: Features users love and hate
IT pros identify what they like, and don’t like, about network monitoring software from CA, Microsoft, and other vendors.
Report: Top 25 IT security products
Download this exclusive report highlighting 25 top security products – as rated by actual enterprise users of the products – in categories such as cloud security, firewalls, SIEM, application security and IoT security.
Face-off: ServiceNow vs. Zendesk for IT service management
Considering an IT service management (ITSM) suite? Download this free report for side-by-side comparisons of rival products from ServiceNow and Zendesk, based on reviews written by enterprise users of the products.
Face-off: HPE vs. NetApp for enterprise flash storage
Considering enterprise flash array storage? Download this free report for side-by-side comparisons of rival products from HPE and NetApp, based on reviews written by enterprise users of the products.
Data visualization tools: The features users love and hate
It seems like making sense of data is everyone’s job now. Here are the pros and cons of five leading data visualization tools, as reported by enterprise users of the products.
Cloud monitoring: Users review 5 top tools
These are boom times for cloud computing, but corporate IT departments still need to monitor those workloads and identify any problems. So we asked system administrators to identify the best and worst features – of five leading...
The best (and worst) features of 5 leading ALM suites
Managing a portfolio of ever-changing software development projects is never easy, but application lifecycle management suites are intended to keep track of all the details. Here’s what software engineers say are the pros and cons of...
4 top disaster recovery packages compared
There’s arguably no more important IT task than making sure business systems and data can be restored after a disaster. So we asked system administrators to identify the best features — and what’s missing — in four leading software...
IT users review 6 software test management tools
Developers use test management tools — from vendors such as HPE, Microsoft and IBM — to manage their software quality-assurance programs. We’ve asked QA managers to identify the best and worst features of six leading suites.
5 tools for making sense of system logs
Security and systems administrators discuss the best and worst features of log management products such Splunk, ArcSight and LogRhythm.
What IT admins love/hate about 8 top network monitoring tools
IT administrators discuss the most valuable features of eight network monitoring products – from vendors such as CA, Microsoft, NetScout, Opsview and Nagios -- and the features that need improvement.
The best (and worst) parts of server virtualization products
IT managers identify the pros and cons of server virtualization software from VMware, Microsoft, Oracle and Citrix.
6 tools for producing a great mobile app experience
You want users of your mobile apps to have a worry-free experience, which means using mobile app performance management (APM) tools to pinpoint any problems. IT managers in the IT Central Station community identify the best and worst...
IT managers critique enterprise flash-storage products
Storage administrators in the IT Central Station community identify the best, and worst, features of flash array systems from HPE, Tintri, NetApp, Pure Storage, Nimble Storage, EMC and Kaminario.
IT service desk suites: The features users love and hate
Enterprise IT managers describe the best and worst features of four leading IT service management suites: ServiceNow, Zendesk, CA Service Desk Manager and BMC Remedy.
4 tools for managing firewall rules
Poorly managed firewall rules can lead to security disasters. Here, security managers in the IT Central Station community review the top firewall management suites: Tufin, AlgoSec, FireMon and RedSeal.
Software-defined storage: Users reveal the best (and worst) features
Enterprise IT managers identify the most valuable features -- and areas needing improvement -- in four leading products for software-defined storage.
Infrastructure monitoring products: Users pinpoint the best and worst features
Monitoring software for servers, networks and applications is supposed to help IT departments spot problems early and avoid business downtime. At IT Central Station, IT managers provide their peers with insights about the pros and...
Backup and recovery tools: Users identify the good, bad and ugly
Enterprise IT staffers in the IT Central Station community identify the most valuable features of data backup and recovery products -- from Veeam, Acronis, HPE and IBM -- and the areas that need improvement.