There is no better term around today that sums up the requirements for oil and gas drillers than two simple words: Real time.

With millions, if not billions, of dollars at stake, there is no fooling around.

The easy days of oil and gas exploration are long gone. Now, E&P companies must not only use more sophisticated technologies  to hike business intelligence and identify profit opportunities upstream, but they must also employ cost effective ...

SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol, is a communications protocol built into most of the IT infrastructure around us. From Printers to UPS Systems, Routers and the PCs we use in automation, virtually everything in the IT world supports SNMP communications. It is already there, waiting for your use. And, it is supported over the Ethernet you are already using.