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6 Best Tools for Automated Network Management + Guide

In today’s technology-driven world, network automation tools have evolved from convenience to necessity in practically every IT field. Traditionally, IT managers would issue manual command lines to manage networks, but given the size of today’s business networks, manual workflows dealing with repetitive network tasks have become time-consuming and counterproductive, often at risk of incurring errors from manual implementation.

7 Strategies to Contain Network Costs (Layer 6 Will Amaze You)

First, thanks for indulging the clickbait title joke. Serialization is the unsung hero of harmonizing network and application relations and deserves the occasional, snarky callout. Moreover, identifying how the unique mix of network clients in your environment consume your carefully manicured infrastructure is critical for managing network cost. Because today, a rapidly expanding, diverse pile of new technologies all assume the network is a magic grid, no tuning required.

What is Network Congestion? Common Causes and How to Fix Them

There are few areas of networking so problematic, and at the same time so fixable, as network congestion. Understanding the common causes network congestion causes can help you detect them, fix them, and keep them from cropping up again. Network congestion is generally seen by the end-user as “network slow down”, or response times on our computer not being up to par.

Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.3

The HAProxy Data Plane API 2.3 expands its service discovery mechanisms and introduces native support for discovering AWS EC2 instances and auto-scaling groups. It also adds a new configuration file that supports HCL and YAML, an Inotify configuration watcher, and Syslog support. HAProxy Data Plane API version 2.3 is now available and you will find it in the 2.3 version of the Alpine Docker image.

What is a Backplane? A Network Backplane Throughput Primer

Bottlenecks and performance issues are the bane of network engineers everywhere. They can be hard to nail down, have a variety of different potential root causes, and give people an excuse to “blame the network”. Understanding network backplanes, backplane throughput, and concepts like blocking vs non-blocking switches, can help you better understand network design and troubleshoot bottlenecks when they come up.

Auvik Presents: Secure IT Operations

In this webinar, we bring IT Ops and IT Security together and discuss what you can do to address two of the biggest struggles that keep so many IT pros awake at night: maintaining the technology you manage, and ensuring that same technology is secure. Presented by Destiny Bertucci, Product Marketing Manager, and Steve Petryschuk, Technology Advocate Interested in improving your operations with the help of network monitoring and management software? Auvik is incredibly easy to set up and super simple to use.