Network outages happen more often than you think. We may not experience them directly or even know they're occurring at all. When outages affect household names like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and others, however, we're sure to find out after the fact that there was an issue. Depending on the user's activities and the duration of the issue, stress and frustration levels can vary. When a marketer can’t get that ground-breaking advertisement up on Facebook, they can get antsy.

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a strong trend emerging in enterprise network security, representing the long-term capability to integrate and consolidate a variety of networking and cybersecurity tools. Let’s do a quick dive on the technology to understand why it’s necessary. SASE emerged as an outgrowth of the software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) technology movement, which made it easier to configure, orchestrate, and manage WAN connectivity from enterprise branches.

If your teams are focused on work rather than value, alignment won’t happen. OKRs represent a key framework that helps teams focus on value. Read on to get some practical insights into the power of OKRs, and view some templates and examples to see how they work.

There are many factors making networking both more complicated and more critical than ever. The advent of cloud infrastructure, web-based applications, and increasingly diverse network environments demand a new approach to network operations, or NetOps, as it’s referred to in the industry. Networks are bigger than ever: they now connect everything ranging from automobiles to cloud servers.

Even though 2022 hasn’t even ended, Gartner has already charted its top technology trends for 2023. In this blog, we’ll look at how Applied Observability for networks — which Gartner lists as one of the top three trending technology topics in the “optimization” category — helps the organization translate network performance into business performance.