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NetCrunch is commercial, self-hosted, agentless network and IT infrastructure monitoring software for Windows Server. It monitors network devices, servers, virtualization platforms, cloud services, applications, websites, logs, telemetry, and network traffic across distributed environments. NetCrunch supports 680+ monitoring targets and provides 270+ ready-to-use Monitoring Packs for devices, applications, and operating systems. Policy-based monitoring automatically applies monitoring settings, Monitoring Packs, thresholds, and alerts to matching devices and systems. Licensing is based on monitored nodes and network interfaces rather than individual sensors, checks, or metrics. NetCrunch provides real-time dashboards and automatic Layer 2 and routing topology maps for visibility into network status and performance. Network traffic analysis supports NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and other flow technologies. Its alerting system supports event correlation, dependency-aware suppression, predictive thresholds, escalation, and 40+ automated response actions, including scripts, notifications, API calls, and integrations with external systems. Distributed Monitoring Probes extend monitoring to remote and isolated locations. NetCrunch also provides a REST API for integration and automation with external IT management, service management, and operational systems. NetCrunch is self-hosted on Windows Server and can monitor on-premises, air-gapped, cloud, and hybrid IT environments.

Unimus is a powerful network automation, configuration backup, and change management solution designed to simplify network operations for businesses of all sizes. Supporting 450+ device types across 160+ vendors, Unimus is a network-agnostic platform that eliminates manual network tasks while enhancing security and reliability. With automated configuration backups, Unimus ensures seamless disaster recovery, giving IT teams quick access to historical versions and real-time change tracking. Its network auditing features provide instant visibility into configuration consistency, compliance, and security risks. Change management is simplified with automatic change detection, detailed version history, and customizable notifications. Unimus' intuitive web-based interface makes it easy to manage networks without requiring deep technical expertise, while its integrated CLI access allows for real-time troubleshooting and command execution. Whether you're looking to automate bulk configuration changes, perform firmware upgrades, or improve network visibility, Unimus provides a scalable, cost-effective solution for modern network infrastructures.

Auvik Network Management is a network management and monitoring software designed to empower IT professionals with deep visibility, automation, and control over their network infrastructure. This innovative platform is trusted by businesses of all sizes to streamline network operations, enhance security, and optimize performance. One of Auvik's standout features is its real-time network mapping and discovery capabilities. It automatically generates interactive, visual maps of your network topology, allowing you to easily identify devices, connections, and potential bottlenecks. This invaluable insight helps in planning and optimizing network architecture for maximum efficiency.

Our tailor-made hosting solutions are perfect for both ordinary users and businesses who are looking for reliability and high standards. Our main goal is to ensure that our services are available and fast. To achieve this goal, we work with the best data centres around the world, specifically Tier 2 & Tier 3. Our users can access dedicated servers in the United States and Canada, as well as the Netherlands, Poland and more than 17 other locations. Our clients choose us for our flexible payment options, affordable pricing plans and quick technical support. All of our VPS nodes are virtualized with KVM and come with a 1 Gbps port. Several also have 10 Gbps ports. All of our data centres are carrier-neutral so we have multiple uplinks at each location. We only offer modern servers from Dell, SuperMicro and HP. We use Juniper and Cisco for the network part. We are always expanding our reach, and we would love to be your long-term partner.

ThreatLocker is a Zero Trust security platform that stops cyber threats by allowing only approved applications and activity to run. It removes standing admin rights, enforces least privilege, and gives organizations precise control over software behavior. With capabilities like application control, ringfencing, and device and storage restrictions, it prevents ransomware, zero day exploits, and unauthorized actions before they can execute. Purpose built for IT and security teams, ThreatLocker offers centralized management and full visibility across endpoints, users, and applications. It helps shrink the attack surface, restrict lateral movement, and meet compliance requirements with detailed auditing. Quick to deploy and easy to manage, the platform includes a large maintained application library and simplified approval workflows, enabling stronger security with less operational burden while keeping the business running smoothly.

TotalView offers network monitoring as well as root-cause troubleshooting of problems in plain-English. The solution monitors every device as well as every interface on every device. In addition, TotalView goes deep, collecting 19 error counters, performance, configuration, and connectedness so nothing is outside of it’s view. A built-in heuristics engine analyzes this information to produce plain-English answers to problems. Complex problems can now be solved by junior level engineers leaving the senior level engineers to work on more strategic level projects. The core product includes everything needed to run a perfectly healthy network: Configuration management, server monitoring, cloud service monitoring, IPAM, NetFlow, path mapping, and diagramming. Get Total Network Visibility on your network and solve more problems faster.

JDisc Discovery is a powerful IT asset management and network discovery tool, designed to provide organizations with clear, real-time insights into their entire IT environment. By automatically scanning the network, it identifies and catalogs devices, from physical servers and workstations to virtual machines and network appliances, giving users a detailed inventory of their assets. The tool captures essential data such as hardware specifications, installed software, system configurations, and interdependencies among devices. A key advantage of JDisc Discovery is its agentless architecture. Rather than requiring installation on each device, it uses multiple protocols (like SNMP, SSH, WMI) to gather information, ensuring quick deployment and compatibility across various operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Unix. This makes it ideal for diverse and dynamic IT ecosystems, enabling efficient and non-intrusive data collection.

Control D is a customizable DNS filtering and traffic redirection platform that leverages Secure DNS protocols like DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-QUIC, with support for Legacy DNS. With Control D you can: block malicious threats, block unwanted types of content network wide (ads & trackers, IoT telemetry, adult content, socials, and more), redirect traffic using transparent proxies and gain visibility on network events and usage patterns, with client level granularity. Think of it as your personal Authoritative DNS resolver for the entire Internet that gives you granular control over what domains get resolved, redirected or blocked.

We help companies secure their Internet connections and networks. Our VPN service provides additional protection for your communications. This is done by encrypting all traffic incoming and outgoing to ensure that no third party can access your confidential information. Secure your organization from security breaches. Remote access is secured. Simplify your business network security. Access region-specific online content anywhere in the world

Secure your organization from costly data breaches while meeting essential compliance requirements, such as ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA. Our software-based VPN solution is easy to deploy alongside your existing systems, giving you a powerful and adaptable tool for securing your enterprise network. Our VPN Professional plan allows your team to connect securely to your local networks and cloud-based services. And with granular segmented control over who can connect to dedicated VPN servers and Gateways (logical groupings of dedicated servers), you can ensure your staff can access the resources they need (but only what they need). All of our business plans use robust industry-standard AES-256 or ChaCha20 encryption to ensure your data remains secure. You can further strengthen your organization's security with enforced two-factor authentication (2FA) and seamless login through single sign-on (SSO) with SCIM support for automated user provisioning. Our global high-performance (mainly 10 Gbps) server network is one of the largest in the world, and is part of the trusted Proton ecosystem — a suite of fully open source, end-to-end encrypted services built by the creators of Proton Mail and designed specifically to keep your business secure.