With increasing employee mobility and the continued popularity of Apple devices, as well as other smartphones and mobile devices, adding support for monitoring IT performance remotely is a natural evolution in today’s business world. Heroix, the IT monitoring company, today added iPad support to its Longitude application and network performance monitoring software. This provides Longitude users with instant access to critical IT information from anywhere on the iPad. 
To read the full article, detailing exactly why the ability to monitor an information technology (IT) department’s infrastructure on-the-go is important, click here.
Here at Heroix we felt that a few interesting statistics accompany the recent press release. The following statistics show how important it is to have the ability to monitor an IT’s environment, remotely.
-#1 priority for 2013 was to focus the IT budget on increasing mobilized devices*.
-Fifty-three percent of SMBs now support tablets, making them almost as popular as smartphones, which are supported by 59%.
-New hardware purchases of desktops and laptops steadied in last 6 months while tablets spiked to 38% from 30% showing a shift of dollars toward mobile*.
What does this mean for those professionals tasked with monitoring their infrastructures and applications, while on the go? A solution is close at hand…
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