When something goes wrong in your network, you often don’t find out about it until your users are affected. By then, you’re on the receiving end of an angry phone call and you’re left scrambling to identify the issue and understand its root cause. As soon as you hang up (if the affected user even lets you hang up), you’re in a race against the clock.

The Console Connect ecosystem is rapidly expanding. To help you keep up-to-speed, each month we are bringing you updates on all our latest data centre, cloud and SaaS interconnect locations, as well as introducing you to some of our newest ecosystem partners. This month, we’ve extended your reach even further! We have on-boarded over 40 data centres and over 20 new SaaS PoPs! Here is the full list of our new locations and clouds.

Are you a managed service provider (MSP) who monitors the networks of multiple customers from a central location? ManageEngine launches OpManager MSP, tailored for MSPs with customer-centered network monitoring and seamless management of different customer networks over multiple locations.

Companies are leveraging the power of Kubernetes to accelerate the delivery of resilient and scalable applications to meet the pace of business. These applications are highly dynamic, making it operationally challenging to securely connect to databases or other resources protected behind firewalls.

Use the HAProxy load balancer to redirect users from HTTP to HTTPS automatically. For decades, our lives have become increasingly dependent on sending and receiving data from across the Internet. Now, with more people working, studying, and hanging with friends remotely, that trend is showing an uptick. Yet, adversaries seem to be grasping at that communication from every direction.

This is the third blog post in a series on “Smart Cities and Urban Environments” and the implications for networks & telecoms. About 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas; for developed OECD countries the figure is about 80%. Urbanisation is good for economic and even environmental reasons, but brings challenges for transport, roads and personal mobility*.

The move to a multi-cloud environment brings with it many new considerations for an enterprises. Among those is a new approaching to networking. In our recent webinar, Jay Turner, Vice President of Development and Operations, and Neil Templeton VP, Marketing at PCCW Global, looked at some of the common challenges facing enterprises as they connect to more clouds, and identified some new ways to manage these connections more effectively. Here’s some of the tips you might have missed…

Network Operation Centers, or NOCs, serve as hubs for monitoring and incident response. A NOC is usually a physical location in an organization. NOC operators sit at a central desk with screens showing current service data. But, the functionality of a NOC can be distributed. Some organizations build virtual NOCs. These can be staffed fully remotely. This allows for distributed teams and follow-the-sun rotations. NOC as a service is another structure gaining in popularity.

Insight and ergonomy for the smart security analyst. Since the performance overhaul of the last release, we’ve concentrated our efforts to bring you additional refinements to the accuracy and information value in Flowmon ADS 11.1.

On Monday, September 28th 2020, Microsoft had a failure with their authentication system that affected major products and services such as Office 365, Outlook, Teams, Sharepoint, Azure and many others. The Microsoft login failure affected consumer and business users that were not already authenticated with the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) service. Microsoft confirmed the outage on their Azure Status Dashboard website.