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Self-Care Tips for IT Pros: Invest in Sleep (And a Good Chair)

As an IT pro, you are your most valuable asset. Obviously, if you aren’t taking care of yourself, how can you be expected to perform with typical sustained, easy awesomeness? Are you able to extricate your IT self from the myriad reactive activities central to IT roles? It’s easy to proclaim taking care of yourself should always be your number one priority.

The Value of Ingesting Firewall Logs

In this article, we are going to explore the process of ingesting logs into your data lake, and the value of importing your firewall logs into Coralogix. To understand the value of the firewall logs, we must first understand what data is being exported. A typical layer 3 firewall will export the source IP address, destination IP address, ports and the action for example allow or deny. A layer 7 firewall will add more metadata to the logs including application, user, location, and more.

The Top Networking Certifications Guide for 2021

The technology industry is predicted to reach a $5 trillion valuation in 2021, an additional 4% growth over 2020. This steady growth of the industry has, unsurprisingly, led to an increase in the number of jobs in networking and IT. As the last year has shown, when an enterprise is forced to switch work models to a remote or distributed approach, they need network specialists to set up and maintain the necessary infrastructure.

Announcing Ribbon Voice Sync for Regional and Rural Service Providers

Regional and rural providers are challenged every day to keep their network together. Time, obsolescence, razor-thin margins, and changing customer expectations are conspiring to pull it apart. Watch on-demand to learn how Ribbon is synchronizing multiple elements of our portfolio into a new and better solution for regional and rural providers.

Anodot Helps CSPs Jump-Start Zero-Touch Network Monitoring

Anodot’s autonomous network monitoring platform provides the ability to monitor cross-layer network performance and service experience in one platform. We collect all data types, at any scale, and use AI/ML to correlate anomalies across the entire telco stack. Our platform is the "brain" on top of the OSS that detects service-impacting incidents in real time. We help customers like T-Mobile and Megafon protect their revenue and improve service experience - reducing the number of alerts by 90% and shortening Time-to-Resolve incidents by 30%.

An Overview of the Cost Savings and Business Benefits with Auvik

If you’re an Auvik user, you’ve likely come to realize our software can provide value to your business in more ways than one. From automating tedious and repetitive tasks like documentation and config backup, to cutting down on troubleshooting time, Auvik’s cloud-based network monitoring and management system gives you true network visibility and control.

Announcing HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.6

We’re proud to announce the release version 1.6 of the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller. This version provides the ability to add raw configuration snippets to HAProxy frontends, allows for ACL/Map files to be managed through a ConfigMap, and enables complex routing decisions to be made based on anything found within the request headers or metadata.