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Multi-cloud trends in the media sector

The cloud is helping organisations in the media and entertainment sector unlock new levels of efficiency and speed as they find themselves under pressure to produce and distribute content faster than ever before. In our latest blog we look at how a Network-as-a-Service model can enhance their multi-cloud strategy.

Fundamentals: Application Acceleration and the Benefits for your Service Delivery

Application acceleration is all about improving the responsiveness of a digital service. When clients access web applications, they are expecting near-immediate feedback from servers. Maintaining that level of performance requires ensuring the right resources are available to process requests, shortening the information retrieval process, and maintaining system uptime by warding off threats.

Take Network Monitoring to the Extreme with WhatsUp Gold/Flowmon Duo

Network monitoring is the key to efficient, reliable operation, as well as performance and security. The deeper and more broadly you can monitor (yes, you want to do both), the better your network operates. What if you could combine a superstar in network infrastructure monitoring with the champion of network flow monitoring? You can. Progress, owner of WhatsUp Gold, recently acquired Kemp and their market-leading Flowmon solution.

What can be learned from recent BGP hijacks targeting cryptocurrency services

On August 17, 2022, an attacker was able to steal approximately $235,000 in cryptocurrency by employing a BGP hijack against the Celer Bridge, a service which allows users to convert between cryptocurrencies. In this blog post, I discuss this and previous infrastructure attacks against cryptocurrency services. While these episodes revolve around the theft of cryptocurrency, the underlying attacks hold lessons for securing the BGP routing of any organization that conducts business on the internet.

Harness Continuous Observability to Continuously Predict Deployment Risk

In my previous blog, I discussed how continuous observability can be used to deliver continuous reliability. We also discussed the problem of high change failure rates in most enterprises, and how teams fail to proactively address failure risk before changes go into production. This is because manual assessment of change risk is both labor intensive and time consuming, and often contributes to deployment and release delays.

Make Your MSP a Recession-Proof Business

Many believe we’re either in a recession or on the brink of one. It’s a familiar cycle: high inflation, international strife, supply chain challenges, and tightening monetary policies are all driving fears of a downturn. While the IT industry has exceeded expectations for the past few years, it isn’t immune to a recession. As a result, many IT MSPs are thinking about what they can do to ensure a recession-proof business over the next year and beyond.

The Cloud And SD-WAN

As more and more businesses move to the cloud, they discover that their traditional wide area networks (WANs) can no longer serve their needs. SD-WAN is a networking solution that offers many other benefits over traditional WANs, including reduced costs, improved performance, and increased flexibility. But what does SD-WAN stand for? Below, we'll take a deeper look at what SD-WAN solutions are and how they can help your business take advantage of the cloud.