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Upgrade Alert: Test Your Internal Infrastructure with Enhanced Private Location Monitoring

External servers need to be monitored but it’s your backend infrastructure that supports them. Looking for a reliable way to monitor your internal networks? You’re in luck! Uptime.com Private Location monitoring is just the tool for you.

Lights out for SDH: What you need to know but were afraid to ask

Although SDH has been hugely successful, and we have learned a huge amount from it, we have now reached the point where supply is end of life. Fortunately, we now have technologies that deliver equal or better performance at a much lower cost. However, migrating legacy SDH services onto these new technologies can prove to be extremely expensive. Watch this webinar on-demand for.

5 Scenarios Where An Agile Networking Model Can Benefit Your Business

It is not just network performance that is important to today’s CIOs and network managers. Critical IT workflows and network traffic are rapidly growing and changing all the time, which is why enterprise networking needs to be more flexible and responsive than ever before. Here we look at a number of scenarios where a more agile networking model could better support the needs of a business…

HAProxy Configuration Basics: Load Balance Your Servers

Learn how to set up basic load balancing using the HAProxy configuration file. If you’re new to using the HAProxy load balancer, you’ve come to the right place. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to configure HAProxy for basic load balancing. I am assuming that you’ve already installed the software. If not, there are several ways to do so.

Out-Of-The-Box Zero Touch Network Monitoring

AI monitoring technologies have the potential to introduce significant cost savings for CSPs. Based on machine learning and fully autonomous, these monitoring solutions provide high ROI by dramatically reducing Time to Detection (TTR), Time to Resolution (TTR), the total number of alerts, and the number of false positives and negatives.

Are 400GZR+ Pluggables an Embedded 800G Giant Killer?

We are now at the start of an era where 400GbE is breaking out of data centers and displacing 100GbE as the dominant client interface requiring wide-area optical transport. This is resulting in 400G lanes becoming the new building block of optical networks to transport existing 100GbE and growing 400GbE client traffic, for both metro and long haul applications.

How to Connect With Other Community Members on THWACK

At some point, all IT professionals need a little help, and a great way to get that help is to ask other IT pros. A great place to ask for some help is the THWACK community. SolarWinds solutions are rooted in our deep connection to our user base in the THWACK® online community. More than 150,000 members are here to solve problems, share technology and best practices, and directly contribute to our product development process.

User Identity Awareness with LoadMaster ESP and Flowmon

In one of the previous blog posts from the load balancing education series, we discussed the Edge Security Pack functionality to provide an additional layer of security in front of an application workload to ensure that only properly authenticated users can interact with the application. In this role, the LoadMaster acts as a gateway for the application and handles user authentication through a third-party identity provider such as Microsoft Active Directory.