ISP networks are the connective tissue for most business traffic today. Are your network monitoring capabilities aligned with this new reality? This post examines why it’s so critical to establish visibility into ISP networks, and offers key tips for success.
You probably have been hearing a lot about automation and artificial intelligence (AI) these days, with a vision of some kind of AI-driven world that will take all of our jobs away. The reality is that there’s always too much work to do. AI and automation are more likely to help people get their jobs done more efficiently rather than take them away. Basic automation can have large returns for the network – and improve the quality of work.
The use of statistics, advanced algorithms and AI/Ml is becoming omnipresent. The benefits are visible in every walk of life, from web searches, to movie and retail recommendations, to auto-completing our emails. Of course, not many anticipated the dramatic entrance of generative AI in the form of ChatGPT for writing college essays and poetry on arcane topics.
Network automation enables teams to use software to plan, develop, operate, or optimize networks with little or no human intervention. Effectively, network automation leverages some logic to execute “task A” when “event B” happens. Network automation can be used in a range of ways, anything from AI-driven network analytics to traditional health checks. Do you want to know how network automation can help your business? Keep reading.
Broadcom has been named the highest-scoring vendor for the third consecutive year in a row in the 2023 Radar Report for Network Observability.
It may feel like ancient history, but it was only a few years ago that, in response to the pandemic, organizations made a wholesale shift to support hybrid work models—and did so literally overnight, in many cases. While some time has passed, this is a shift to which many IT organizations are still struggling to fully adapt.
In today's fast-paced digital world, keeping up with the latest technology advancements is crucial for businesses to stay ahead of the competition. This is especially true in the world of IT infrastructure management, where technology is rapidly evolving and new solutions are being developed to meet the changing needs of businesses.
The Department of Defense (DoD) is on a mission to modernize its IT environments, radically changing the nature of its network operations (NetOps) in the department. Network availability and performance keep getting more integral to the DoD’s charter, which means downtime isn’t just troublesome, it’s a life-or-death matter. In this post, we’ll outline how key DoD modernization imperatives are affecting NetOps.
Regardless of an organization’s industry or size, virtually every critical business activity or service is at least partly reliant upon network connectivity. When network performance slows or issues arise that halt critical end-user services, it can be very costly to an organization. Lost employee productivity, eroded customer loyalty, and reduced sales can all be among the ramifications for even relatively brief service interruptions.
Software testing has been an established discipline as old as software development itself. We have seen significant evolution of testing practices recently specially driven by Continuous Delivery and DevOps, where testing is increasingly integrated with agile development and other software lifecycle practices.
