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How Sensu Powers Fognigma’s Network Health Monitoring for Uninterrupted Performance
Having your IT infrastructure run without scheduled health monitoring can be quite dangerous, especially in this day and age. Some people forget about things like updates or software scans because they think they’re useless, but they’re actually quite the opposite. Companies like Fognigma take network health monitoring very seriously and are able to help you get your system completely up to date with an integrated system called Sensu. Read more on how Fognigma can help better your network while also potentially scaling your IT infrastructure to something better and more secure.
Why Network Health Monitoring Matters
Think of network health monitoring as a way to tell if your IT infrastructure is sick or needs refreshing. With everything being online, it can take quite a toll on an IT system to continuously be available, adapt to scams, and optimize. Without an effective network IT infrastructure monitoring system in place, it’s hard to tell when your system needs an update. If you let it go long enough without taking action, you could face downtimes, ineffective resource allocation, slower speeds, and more that could cost you hundreds or thousands of dollars to fix the damages. Integrations like Sensu make it so much easier to monitor and provide a safe network like Fognigma for it to integrate in.
Top Benefits of Using Sensu by Fognigma
Sensu is all about giving you peace of mind. With companies like Fognigma, we can easily provide this integration. The best part: Sensu’s benefits. Read below for some of the top reasons to consider it for your IT infrastructure.
Automation at Every Level
You don’t have to worry about setting something up every two weeks or so with Sensu. It removes that headache altogether by automatically checking your network as soon as it’s turned on. It’s known for tracking network pings, virtual machine monitoring disk usage, CPU, RAM, and more. It can virtually check every machine in your network on its own, without a human doing manual configuration in sight.
Scalability Simplified
Companies like Fognigma can help scale your organization, especially with secure-based networks. Sensu works together with this by giving administrators a single interface to monitor network and resource stress. This unified view helps IT teams to decide whether to scale resources up or down quickly. Once you know this, the system is set to where it always matches organizational needs without straining resources.
Rapid Response to Strain
It’s hard to pick up the pieces when you’ve realized your infrastructure shows signs of strain. With Sensu, you can get real-time data that allows administrators enough time to put out the fire, so to speak. This helps avoid interruptions while also not straining the system enough to preserve it for a long enough period of time. By predicting potential issues before they escalate, Sensu allows organizations to work seamlessly, no matter how hard or how demanding it can be on their networks.
Being Able to Event Track
Having data is one thing, but having the correct data is another. With integrations like Sensu, you can see actual event tracking for every machine in your network. This can include ping checks, network performance optimization metrics, disk integrity, connection integrity, and more. With this information, IT staff can assess the situation way better while optimizing the performance.
Better, Stronger Network and Resource Health
The most important benefit of Sensu is that it provides a better, stronger network and better resource health. No one wants to worry about their IT infrastructure being on the fritz. Having a clearly pictured overview of your Sensu network monitoring health is invaluable these days, and Sensu can provide just that. It can simplify processes where regularly performing checks allow IT admins to predict and address emerging issues before they impact users. This approach can help reduce downtime and make sure super important tasks aren’t delayed due to system inefficiencies.
Why Choose Fognigma with Sensu?
Fognigma is different from other companies because they are able to add Sensu very easily and help you maintain this within your system, no matter how hectic it can get. By teaming up with Fognigma, you’re able to have real-time network diagnostics at any time, with systems continuously being operational 24/7. Also, you’ll have a faster response time to issues, which can result in better overall operations. Then, finally, you’re able to have the overall performance of your IT infrastructure optimized and enhanced so you can track data in the right and most efficient way. The combination of all these things mentioned can offer unmatched flexibility and performance for organizations that require a reliable and stable IT infrastructure without compromising security or efficiency.
What Can Happen If Network Health Monitoring is Ignored?
Like most things, ignoring the problem can just create a bigger problem. The same goes for network health monitoring. If you don’t take this kind of monitoring seriously, you and your organization could face some serious consequences, including loss of productivity, increased vulnerability to cyber attacks, lack of resources, no insight into network performance, and inability to monitor all users under the same infrastructure. These are essential things that have to be done in order to run an effective IT network and system. To make sure those consequences don’t happen, have Fognigma install an integration like Sensu so you’re one step ahead of schedule in preparedness.
Summary
Every system can get rundown or strained over time, especially if you have a lot of users under one umbrella. Consider teaming up with companies like Fognigma and applying the Sensu integration so you are able to have a powerful partnership for IT administrators who need to monitor, optimize, and scale their networks way more easily than before. No matter how big or small your organization is, reach out to Fognigma today to get started in taking the next step in optimizing your network health.
Fognigma Solves Biggest Challenge of Working Remotely
One of the biggest challenges of working remotely is effective collaboration.
In an office environment, everything is in a single, secured location. We take for granted how easy it is to efficiently communicate and interact with other people, our data, documents, and other files we need each day.
Remote work introduces several variables that can make secure, effective collaboration a logistical nightmare. Outdated technology and software, unsecured home networks, and limited access to company information can create major security risks and make collaboration a hassle.
With Fognigma, the biggest challenge of working remotely is solved, organizations can collaborate seamlessly and securely from anywhere – just as effectively as from the office.
Using Fognigma’s cutting-edge, customizable VPNs, organizations can:
Communicate face-to-face in a secure video conferencing server: Fognigma’s video conferences are completely encrypted, live on servers entirely owned by your organization, are completely private, and invisible to everyone but the parties involved.
Safely store and share sensitive company information on a secure file server: With Fognigma, secure file sharing is made easy. Users can download, upload, and share sensitive company information. Furthermore, special links can be created if specific files needs to be shared with outsiders.
Send messages and files protected with end-to-end encryption to anyone in your organization: Fognigma’s technology simplifies and automates the encryption, allowing users to easily send secure messages and files to anyone in their organization.
Access company resources and the Internet from traceless, sandboxed VDIs: Using Fognigma’s VDIs, users can anonymously browse the Internet, access company resources and more while appearing to be anywhere in the world. Users Internet activity leaves no footprint of where they went, removing the risk of hackers tracking where they went or what organization they belong to.
Obscure and misattribute phone numbers to protect calls and texts: With Fognigma, users can text and call without revealing their true numbers or what is said during the conversation.
Fognigma makes safe, effective remote collaboration easy – for everyone, no matter where they are. With Fognigma, your organizations biggest challenge while working remotely is solved!
Don’t let remote work hinder your organizations business operations. Solve your organizations biggest challenge with Fognigma. Contact us to learn more.
Benefits of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Hardware: The Old-Fashioned Approach
In the past, adding computers to your organization was easy. It normally involved spec’ing out new hardware, purchasing it, installing it into your network, and then getting belittled by users who were unhappy with the machine’s capabilities. Like any decision, adding new computers is always a compromise: budget vs. tech vs. amount of time till obsolescence. It’s a balance that’s never perfect, especially when scaled up to an organizational level.
Once you have your computers though, you’re chained to them for quite some time. Often, they determine where your organization can operate (i.e., desktop computers predicate staying in office, while laptops allow for more freedom to travel) which, in some respects, dictates how your organization can operate. If your organization, however, needs to function all over the world, if it needs the flexibility to adapt dynamically to mission specifications, then you need to explore the benefits of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Benefits
First, we must note: VDIs don’t replace all hardware as they need hardware on which to function. But they can provide a myriad of benefits to organizations who use them to their fullest. The easiest benefit to highlight is the cost savings. As mentioned in a ComputerWeekly.com article, VDIs use an estimated “60-70% less power than existing physical environments.” On top of that, VDIs offer cost (and time) savings when updates are required. No longer do you have to go to each physical machine and run updates. VDIs update through their software, meaning they all update at once. Some call this “future proof”.
Another key VDI benefit is its sandboxed nature. Open a browser in a VDI, for example, and if some malicious code gets through, it’s trapped inside the framework of the VDI. This protects the host computer from a wide variety of attacks, but it’s not perfect. If you save files on a VDI, they go to the host computer. This can store files in unintended (or unwanted) places or expose the host computer (and, by extension, your entire network) to malware, viruses, and other nefarious bits of programming.
There is a VDI solution out there that goes above and beyond—one that takes everything good about standard VDIs and adds some hearty doses of superpowers. If you need a VDI solution created with total mission success in mind, then you need a VDI powered by Fognigma.
Fognigma’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Added Benefits
Fognigma VDIs have all the features of a standard VDI (sandboxed, cost savings, etc.), but add capabilities not found anywhere else. Let’s explore some of the most important capabilities and prove why VDIs powered by Fognigma is the best choice for your organization.
Unlike standard VDIs, Fognigma VDIs have the ability to save and move files without involving the host computer. Files can transfer to and from USB drives and the VDI and the host computer will never retain a record of anything. VDI audio is filtered to ensure no IP leaks occur. In short (and to paraphrase a slogan), what exists in a Fognigma VDI stays in a Fognigma VDI.
There are even more special ways Fognigma VDIs can interact with files. Using our Nomadic Profile ability, files will follow authenticated users from VDI instance to VDI instance. Launch and log into a VDI and save files to the VDI’s desktop. The next time you launch a VDI and log in, your files will be on that desktop, too! As a complement to this Nomadic ability, Fognigma VDIs can use a shared server folder which adds drag-and-drop file sharing between multiple concurrent VDI instances. Take your files with you and share with your team all from the safety of a VDI.
Fognigma VDIs can also be tailored to the organization and individual user. Install custom apps if needed or limit the access of apps or features users can employ. Perhaps your organization has a squad that just needs to collect information—let them access a VDI with just a file share attached. Basically, VDIs allow for de facto Identity and Access Management by allowing admins to select the exact type of VDI (and, therefore, accessible apps) each user is able to launch.
The biggest unique feature of a Fognigma VDI, however, is the ability of anonymous world travel and web browsing. This is actually a fun way to describe a bunch of related features. Fognigma VDIs allow you to explore the Internet fully anonymous and appear to be in almost any location on the planet. So, if you need to look like a user in Germany, you can launch a VDI with an exit point (i.e., where the IP address appears to be) in Germany. But Fognigma VDI exit points are dynamically switchable, so in a few mice clicks that same VDI can now appear to exist in, for example, Japan. Plus, you can launch VDIs from almost any device anywhere in the world. These features all work together to allow your users to become part of any web-landscape in any geographic region, without raising suspicion.
As you can see, Fognigma VDIs strive to be the pinnacle of virtual desktop technology and they are always evolving (one of the latest updates sped our VDIs to almost 50% faster than standard VDIs). To learn more about our amazing VDI solutions or to schedule a demonstration, please contact us today.