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As the number of connected personal and IoT devices skyrockets across the world, the demand for high-speed, high-performance networks continues to climb and transform how people and businesses connect. Over the years, this technological growth has triggered the development of different types of networks to meet shifting demands, and it’s likely that with future technological advancement, more network topologies will continue to emerge.

There is a tremendous amount of uncertainty for anything and everything when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine. The standards of who is eligible to get the vaccine (and when!) differs from state to state and is a moving target to say the least. While some states have already begun to distribute the vaccine according to their state mandated guidelines, others are struggling to define what those mandates are exactly.

We take an API-first approach to our product at Sumo Logic—everything you can do in the UI can be done via API. I talked about several use cases for automation with Sumo Logic APIs in my presentation at Illuminate 2020. Here’s a recap of what I covered.

We are pleased to share with you that the Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ was granted authority to operate at a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate impact level. With this authorization, many more organizations can now use Sumo Logic to get real-time insights into complex on-premises and cloud environments, and further strengthen their security and compliance, while optimizing their operational performance.

Despite a halt in travel in 2020, InfluxData made incredible progress reaching users around the world through the new InfluxData Authorized Channel Partner program. The program features a robust ecosystem of distributor and reseller partners that help to support InfluxDB users around the world. In 2020, we welcomed 23 channel partners, including three regional distributors and 20 resellers in the Asia Pacific, EMEA and North American regions.

In this new series of Now on Now blogs, we share how we, ourselves, use ServiceNow products to transform our operations and create great experiences. We hope our stories will inspire you, our customers, and partners, to achieve even greater business value and resiliency from the Now Platform®. For more information, visit the Now on Now Book of Knowledge.

Network scanners have become an integral part of every IT admin’s first line of defense against security breaches. Using the right network scanner tool to conduct effective network reconnaissance and diagnosis enables you to pinpoint network issues that can escalate to security risks and network mishaps. A typical network scanner would allow you to scan a range of IP addresses sequentially, and display the active devices within that address block.

In traditional IT environments, services to customers are delivered and supported by the organization. A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is created with details like what would be the availability of service be, how reliable the service would be, what penalties can be charged in case of downtime, etc. The internal teams like the network administration team, development team, IT service desk, etc. would then draw up Operational Level Agreements (OLAs) to support the SLA.