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…
Take care when looking at network discovery tools. Many vendors promise to collect zillions of different device attributes. But do you really need them all? Who cares which keyboard is connected to a PC or what mouse you are using? When it comes to network discovery tools, the data quality is more important than the…
JDisc’s release train arrived today at version 3.1! Just right in time to it’s fifth anniversary, we publish release 3.1 of our network inventory and documentation solution “JDisc Discovery”. The new release has three major focus areas: Core Enhancements: There are many different enhancements that made its way into our core product. JDisc identifies VirtualBox…
Dear JDisc friends, sometimes a beer in a pub is the best source for new ideas. I was meeting with a former HP colleague in a pub in Herrenberg (Google if you want to know where it is 🙂 and we were talking what we have been doing since we left HP. I was talking…
Dear JDisc friends, first let me wish you all a happy new year. Hope you had an excellent start into 2014. The first topic in our blog for this year is about supportability. Supportability is often ignored by software developers and architects. One of the reasons might be, that is does not add any immediate…