In my experience, one of the best ways for an operation to perpetually perform at its peak is to continuously and systematically seek out and tweak any areas that can be optimized. For many businesses ...

Linux systems maintain quite a collection of log files, many of which you are probably rarely tempted to view. Some of these log files are quite valuable, though, and options for exploring them might ...

The data center environment is growing, and it has become even more important to properly manage server logs. Keeping an eye on servers, firewalls, appliances and even switching infrastructure event ...

Modern IT environments have a data problem: there’s too much of it. Organizations that need to manage a company’s environment are increasingly challenged to detect and diagnose issues in real-time, ...

Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program includes a Chart Wizard for making a variety of graphs from tabulated data. In some situations, as with scientific experiments, the data in one or both axes of ...

What is the Windows event log? The Windows event log is a detailed and chronological record of system, security and application notifications stored by the Windows operating system that network ...