Case Study: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung achieves 100% uptime for critical production applications with Progress WhatsUp Gold

Ipswitch Ensures Network Availability During Daily Newspaper’s Peak Production Hours

Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, one of Germany’s largest regional dailies with about 440,000 readers and roughly 1,000 staff across a headquarters and 12 satellite locations, faced a major challenge: ensuring uninterrupted access to critical production applications—like the CMS, printing programs and Adobe Distiller—during the high-pressure evening production window after their previous monitoring vendor ended support.

They deployed Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold with support from reseller treeConsult and added the Application Performance Monitor (APM) plug-in to track servers, databases and application components from a single dashboard with automated alerts. The new system enabled early detection and remediation before peak times, delivered analytics to prove 100% uptime for key apps, reduced emergency call-ins and overtime, and simplified reporting.

Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung

Jan Terhalle

Systems Administrator