Red Hat’s Global ISV Program uses modern delivery methods to support a hybrid Cloud strategy that helps partners build and run applications on any Cloud. This Cloud-native strategic development builds on technologies such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux® and Red Hat Openshift and embodies best practices for steady integration and deployment (CI/CD) to help your customers succeed in the Cloud.

“The RHEL8 certification is a recognition of the work we are doing at Pandora FMS to adapt to the business situation both nationally and globally,” says Sancho Lerena, CEO of Pandora FMS. “Monitoring systems are the present and the future, even more so taking into account the massive amount of data that must be managed in every company today,” acknowledges the director of the company.

The confirmation of the RHEL8 system for Pandora FMS allows validating the knowledge of the Spanish organization in cutting-edge technology and provides greater exposure among hundreds of companies worldwide, since the certification implies standing out as a quality monitoring and guaranteed service provider within the Red Hat portfolio.

Red Hat is the world’s leading American multinational in providing open source systems for business. In fact, 90% of the companies on the prestigious Fortune 500 list, which analyzes American open-end companies, rely on Red Hat technology. Through their technology, different companies incorporate integration services, Cloud services or process and decision automation platforms that multiply the efficiency of each IT structure.

“RHEL8 certification opens up a wide range of opportunities for companies that need state-of-the-art monitoring systems. Pandora FMS compatibility with other Red Hat-backed data management systems is assured and companies can reduce costs by up to 30% depending on the industry,” Lerena confirms.  

The magnitude of Red Hat is such that its partners include Google, Amazon or Alibaba Cloud. Also great technology such as Cisco, Dell, Microsoft Intel or DXC, the company in charge of developing the software that manages BMW Group data. Even IT companies like Lenovo or Samsung are on the list of companies that lean on Red Hat.

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How can you maximize individual security on the network? Periodically modifying passwords and following some basic tips. The first thing is to find out whether the user has been affected by any digital security breach. The process is complex for most internauts, but there are free and safe portals where you may just enter some identifying data of your account to find out whether the passwords are in danger.

Haveibeenpwned.com is one of the examples. As if it were a Google search engine, the user just needs to enter their email or phone number to find out whether the passwords of that profile have been filtered and are in a database. In case that breach is confirmed (a message appears in just a second and in a very intuitive red color), the procedure is simple: go to all those accounts and change the password. As experts indicate, you have to set different passwords depending on the platform.

“It makes no sense to set the same password on all applications and systems.  That equals making things easier for thieves, because from a single security breach they can take control of all your accounts for not having different passwords”, explains Sancho Lerena, CEO of the monitoring company Pandora FMS.

Setting different passwords is usually a problem for the user, who risks either forgetting some of them if they do not keep them safe or losing some speed along processes of different applications. Despite this, it is essential to reinforce the security barrier. And that is because not only large entities should be protected.

One of the easiest things to verify is the strength of the passwords used and implementing a system that monitors this may seem simple and innocent, but it is the first step to a safer system. Security monitoring is used to control key security aspects, such as this, backup verification, or the execution of anti-virus security programs. 

The most powerful organizations on the market are a clear example of the importance of cloud security and data protection. Until recently there was a specific department to manage all IT information and its protection, but the increase of those data and the increase of the danger in the cloud have made monitoring become the most effective solution. 

Monitoring the IT structure of a company means centralizing the control of all the information and, in addition, it allows to alert and anticipate each error. In addition, those in charge, both of the IT structure as well as data security, do not have as much workload and can perform their functions 100%. 

“Our monitoring solution, for example, strengthens security wherever it is installed. Businesses are focusing more on their IT information security, and monitoring for example is critical to that end.  Any failure or error is reported instantly, so action is faster and losses smaller.  However, ordinary users should not forget that their information is also valuable for cyber criminals “, underlines the expert of   Pandora FMS  , aware of the interest of large organizations in protecting their data with systems such as monitoring.

Cybercrime has increased over time. Users, given the number of processes that must be developed online, share more and more information. A scenario that has made companies take their chances on monitoring systems such as that of Pandora FMS and that extends to individuals the need to protect their data on the network.

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Monitoring as a Service (MaaS)

Pandora FMS, the renowned Spanish technology company, launches its SaaS solution on the market: MaaS, monitoring as a service , is a flexible subscription model, easy to understand and that covers the whole range of monitoring needs of companies of all sizes.

The MaaS Solution complies with easy integration with business processes, permanent security and 24/7 availability, to access it anytime and anywhere.

A crucial weapon to safeguard companies from the growing demand for Cloud, and the difficulty of finding personnel to manage the ever-increasing technological complexity. Particularly, since it is well known that the use of heterogeneous tools and the lack of use of AI in multi-cloud environments delays innovation, forcing IT teams to devote almost half of their time to maintenance tasks.

Collaborating with OVHcloud

Since 1999, the year of its foundation, OVHcloud has had a single objective: to offer their customers a full range of innovative Cloud products and bare metal with a strong European accent. Since then, the group has provided world-class infrastructures to more than 1.6 million customers worldwide, and has an ecosystem of partners who bring their added value to digital transformation for companies. Pandora FMS joins in as an OVHcloud Advanced Partner, combining its extensive experience in IT monitoring software with the sovereign infrastructures of OVHcloud, and includes its ready-to-use solutions in the Marketplace of the European Cloud leader.

Right now, OVHcloud’s powerful high-end dedicated servers are helping Pandora FMS provide its customers with its MaaS service: a service with very high standards by offering 24/7 operation. Thanks to the smooth operation and reliability of this product, they can also comply with the SLA of the services offered hosted on these servers.

“The ease of provision, the transparency and the wide range of options that OVHcloud now has to choose from, not to mention the possibility of having servers in Europe or America, is key to deploying our solutions”, tells us Sancho Lerena, CEO and founder of Pandora FMS – “In addition, it is a pleasure to be part of the OVHcloud ecosystem, and contribute jointly to the promotion of innovative, interoperable and trusted solutions. One more way to prove ourselves in the face of the wide range of possibilities of our MaaS solution,” he concludes.

Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS is the total monitoring solution, which allows you to see and measure all kinds of technologies no matter where they are: Cloud, SaaS, virtualization or on-premise: a flexible solution that unifies data visualization for full observability of the entire organization.

With more than 50K installations in 53 countries, its customers include companies such as Salvensen, Prosegur, Repsol, CLH, Euskaltel, Adif, Santalucía, Cofares, AON, El Pozo, EMT, and other foreign companies such as Rakuten, Nazareth University in New York, and the main hospital in Ottawa. Also, public administrations such as the Junta de Castilla-La Mancha, the Comunidad of Madrid, the Diputación de Barcelona and numerous municipalities in France, Portugal and Spain.

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Controlling data and extensive information from the whole company, by controlling, supervising and ordering everything through the same system, allows to reduce the times of action in the face of possible errors and failures, improves resource management and organization and increases the effectiveness of the business activity.

In addition, monitoring saves costs.

IT monitoring and retailers, what you need to know

Large food distribution firms carry out continuous processes to guarantee the supply of products on the shelves, so the volume of information generated by executing these tasks throughout the day is remarkable. 

If you add to that amount of data the diversity of systems in the IT structure with which retailers work on a daily basis, the route to obtain valuable, clear and practical information becomes even more complicated. 

The difficulty is greater if, in order to analyze these data, there are unqualified personnel without the support of a reliable platform to make their work easier.

This situation highlights that the fact of not having a monitoring system multiplies the actions necessary to obtain information on the activity of the technological structure of the company or the state of each of its facilities:

This slows down a company’s power to act and its ability to react. 

That, after all, translates into a loss of value both economically and in terms of performance, especially concerning the area of human resources.

What do we achieve with monitoring in the retail sector?

Through monitoring, it is possible to access, even remotely, the entire IT structure of a company. 

That is, by means of a central console you may organize and control an entire technology park. 

This, despite being able to present a heterogeneous panorama with a wide diversity of systems that sometimes do not support each other, goes under the command of a monitoring system by which it can be accessed.

Monitoring makes it possible to replace an existing system and it is also capable of coexisting with others. 

The kind of flexibility that is essential in the sector, because it allows to integrate new stuff to the existing system. 

This observability implies the ability to bring together all data sources and provide useful information for the company. 

The more complex IT systems are, the more important it is to simplify their monitoring.

That way, servers from different operating systems can be monitored by the same controller. 

And in turn, every time an error is detected anywhere in the park, the information can immediately reach those responsible, shortening the reaction time and anticipating more serious internal operating situations.

Monitoring, in addition to making control and error anticipation easier within the company’s performance, it also helps to find out aspects as simple as the state of the toner of a series of printers, or the time workers clocked in. 

Monitoring companies ends up leading to cost savings and service improvement.

Thanks to appliying monitoring systems, retailers in the food sector acquire a tool that enhances the control of the technological infrastructure that guarantees the traceability of their products throughout the distribution chain; from its origin to its arrival to the final customer or to sales establishments. 

In addition, the implementation of this data technology allows monitoring the status of the systems from a centralized position and anticipating breakdowns and errors, saving workload and improving delivery times.

In the food market there have already been companies that have opted for this development of their structures. 

An example of this is Fripozo, belonging to the Fuertes Group, which implemented a monitoring system thanks to its agreement with the Spanish company Pandora FMS. 

As a result of this adaptation, it achieved higher responsiveness to any system failure that could affect the control and distribution of deep-frozen food.

In this particular case, one of the concerns for the company was to achieve some degree of flexibility. 

That is, that something specific could be monitored without this involving a large investment of time and local resources without external intervention. 

Fripozo, after this association with Pandora FMS, managed to reach that goal.

In addition to Fripozo, other distributors such as Salvesen Logistics have also confirmed operational improvements after monitoring their IT structure. 

The company, which like Fripozo took its chances on the Spanish Pandora FMS, came to reveal a reduction of 24% of the workload of its IT area. 

As revealed from their organization, the attention that was constantly paid to the health of the system was focused on improving services and products.

The sector, with more and more competition, is devoted to a necessary organization of the internal data that are produced throughout the same day in a company. 

Any mistake can lead to a chain failure, a misuse of their own resources and a point in favor of competition in the market.

“The monitoring carried out by systems such as Pandora FMS represents clear economic savings for companies that implement it in their IT infrastructure. Reaction times to any failure are shorter and therefore have less impact on the company. But, in addition, internal processes have also been improved as different business models have been discovered“,

explains Sancho Lerena, CEO and founder of Pandora FMS.

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Therefore, Pandora FMS is proud to announce its mention as an  Emerging Favorite  in 2022 Shortlist for Server Monitoring Software and APM by   Capterra, a free online service that helps organizations find the right software.

Pandora FMS is always among the favorites. Capterra knows this

*As many of you may already know, Capterra Shortlist is an independent assessment that evaluates user reviews and online search activity to generate a list of market leaders in the software space that offer the most popular solutions. (Have a look at the Capterra Shortlist methodology here.)

As it could not be otherwise, our CEO and colleague Sancho Lerena has wanted to make some comments on this achievement:

“The first thing I would like to say is thank you. Sometimes it seems that one does not give enough thanks and there is much to thank, both to our coworkers and users, and even the Capterra platform itself. 

Especially because there are so many contributions and because it is absolutely always a huge honor to receive this kind of mention.” 

Here is a sample of our recognition in table format:

More achievements

Well, and that’s not all. 

Pandora FMS is also recognized as a Noteworthy Product in Capterra Shortlist for Application Performance Management Software. 

Our users have made it possible! 

With an overall rating of 4.6 out 5, we received some stellar reviews on Capterra:

“For a long time, we were looking for a monitoring solution that could ensure the resiliency of our web applications and finally, with the help of the Pandora FMS team, we found the right tool. 

Pandora FMS is an out-of-the-box monitoring solution that allows you to monitor your applications and systems and has a very intuitive interface that allows you to build your dashboards in no time. We can not wait to see what the future holds for Pandora FMS.”

[Kumar B.]

“Pandora FMS is a very handy monitoring tool for daily use. Accurate with metrics and useful reporting function for analysis of server performance. 

We are planning to widely distribute the agent across more servers for our customers.”

[Neil W.]

“Pandora FMS the perfect balance between price and quality.”

[Oskar R.]

The question now is, do you want to be the only one not to get on board with such a popular, effective and acclaimed product as Pandora FMS? As you see, you will hardly regret it! We’re counting on you!

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Pandora FMS brings the Internet to 500,000 people in Brazil

The solution is part of the project Floresta Digital, whose objective is to bring free Internet connection to all citizens of the State. 

In total, according to official calculations, there are more than 700,000 citizens distributed in 22 municipalities. 

However, the first steps of the project are aimed at benefiting about half a million Brazilians.

Pandora FMS, whose global experience has led the Spanish company to work for brands such as Rakuten, Repsol or Toshiba, is responsible for developing the management and control of the network environment. That is, through the company’s solution, the Acre government can know through a single console the situation of its entire connection network. 

For example, if it fails at some point or if there is some slowdown in connection speed.

“The peculiarity of this project is that the authorities of Acre have managed to develop this IT control with the free version of Pandora FMS. 

The simplest but, despite this, efficient enough in fact to meet its objective”, recognizes Sancho Lerena, CEO of the Spanish company.

Pandora FMS system allows to monitor all the environment’s information. 

That way, it is possible to have a broad vision of how the entire connection works, which areas are more critical and where any setback should be anticipated. 

A monitoring that improves the performance both technologically and in economic terms.

The system park reaches 800 devices 

The technology offered by the Spanish company allows one to see how the infrastructure is distributed and offers the ability to intervene quickly should there be any issue such as the high consumption of bandwidth in any location or the connection failure in any city.

In addition, the Brazilian administration has managed to reduce costs. 

By having control and enough information about how all their technological deployment is working, it is possible to manage the workforce more efficiently. 

They reduce unnecessary trips and, in turn, allowances and travel expenses to check the status of some connection point.

“The project to bring free internet to half a million people was already a challenge for Brazilian administrations. 

Doing it initially with the free version of Pandora FMS added difficulty. 

Despite everything, Acre’s teams have adapted to technology demonstrating that digital environments will be increasingly present in every public administration”, explains Sancho Lerena.

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