With that in mind, the Test Center has taken a look at Ipswitch's WhatsUp Gold Premium -- which the vendor bills as a "cost-effective" management and monitoring solution -- to see if it fits the bill.

Hello from the road where I’m meeting SMB business people in Chicago, Seattle, New York and Houston as host of Network World’s technology event, IT Strategies for Small to Mid-size Businesses.

A watched pot may never boil, but an unwatched computer will certainly crash. Once your systems outgrow your desk, you need some automated way to watch them. Big companies spend big bucks on network ...