Dear JDisc friends, you thought, that a network documentation software that scans Windows, Linux, VMware, XenServer, MAC OS X, Linux, AIX, HP-UX, and AIX computers is not available for free? Up to now, this has more or less been true! But with the latest JDisc Discovery build, we add a new product edition to our…
Dear JDisc friends, we just have finished our 3.2 release with its new licensing schema and we did a major redesign of our WEB page. Hope you like it! Not it is the time to have a quick look on what we have on our plate for the next couple of months. Adding new devices…
Dear JDisc friends, our company exists now for more than 5 years and some things didn’t change as much as we would have liked them to change. Our WEB page is one of the things that we always wanted to modernize, but that always had a lower priority than new features, releases and projects. 1.…
Dear JDisc Friends, I would like to share a pretty nice story that illustrates the value of having an up-to-date network documentation. Recently one of our clients contacted us and he said: “Look, we have some device on the network that uses the same IP address as our Microsoft Exchange server!”. Of course, that causes…
If you have every been in the Stuttgart area, you will notice that there is a traffic jam almost anytime. Doesn’t matter whether it is sunday or a weekday. Normally, I use the time when I am stuck in the traffic jam to make some phone calls. Then I thought “Why not use the traffic…
JDisc Discovery 3.1 – Build 3115 We follow an agile development process in order to provide new features quickly to our customers and to get early feedback for new features. Typically, we release a new builds every three to six weeks. Although the release number doesn’t change, this doesn’t mean that there are significant changes…
Security really matters! you might know, that Germans are crazy about cars (no exception to me :-). We get crazy, when we see some scratches on our favorite vehicle! You as an IT administrator should be as paranoid about your IT infrastructure, as the Germans are about cars. Most network discovery tools require administrative…
Of course, every software developer knows, that there are many different character sets out there. And of course, every developer takes actions to handle multiple character sets. And of course, we do too. At least that is what we thought until some prospect tried our software on a chinese operating system. And unfortunately, some of…
This feature has been made in the Provence, the nicest place to develop software… We usually present upcoming features in order to get early feedback from our customers. That really helps us to improve the usability and listen to your needs. This time, I am presenting a feature that has been requested from several customers…
Nowadays, server virtualization is commonly used in companies of any size starting from small companies to large data centers. Nearly all professional virtualization technologies support the idea of a resource pool. Image a resource pool as a set of servers and diskspace that can be freely used by virtual machines within the pool. The resource…
