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WhatsUp Gold NPM 13.1 and WhatsUp Gold NDR 13.1 Release Update

Most IT teams do not have the luxury of separating network operations and security professionals into different groups. The same teams need to investigate a slow application and examine unusual traffic patterns or security issues. The latest Progress WhatsUp Gold NPM and Progress WhatsUp Gold NDR releases include new functionality that directly addresses this reality. Both WhatsUp Gold NPM and WhatsUp Gold NDR have been updated to shorten the time between discovering an issue and understanding it.

Cradlepoint R1900: Deployment Configuration Guide for Enterprise IT Administrators

When an enterprise IT team faces the challenge of deploying secure, high-performance wireless connectivity at remote or mobile sites, the Cradlepoint R1900 router often stands out for its rugged build and advanced networking capabilities. Imagine outfitting a fleet of emergency response vehicles or setting up edge connectivity at a construction site-both scenarios demand reliable network performance under harsh conditions. IT administrators must not only install and configure these devices but also ensure they integrate seamlessly with existing infrastructure and adhere to strict security standards.

Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 3.4

We're excited to announce the release of HAProxy Enterprise 3.4, which gives customers more control over how HAProxy Enterprise behaves under constant change and attack. UDP load balancing becomes programmable, and whole backends can be published dynamically through the HAProxy Runtime API or the HAProxy Data Plane API.

ilert now supports a native OpenNMS integration

OpenNMS alarms now reach ilert through a dedicated plugin that runs inside OpenNMS. Network and infrastructure teams get a direct path from an alarm on a device, interface, or service to the phone of the engineer on call. The ilert alert then follows the alarm: accepted when it is acknowledged, resolved when it clears.

8 Best Network Analyzer Software in 2026

Does your IT team know which applications, users, or devices are consuming the most network bandwidth? A video call freezes, file transfers slow down, or a network link becomes congested. Without traffic analysis, finding the source of the problem can take hours. Network analyzer software helps your IT team: However, tools differ in how they collect traffic data. Some analyze flow records, while others also inspect packets to provide more detail.

Network Inventory Management: How to Track Every Device and Config

How many devices are on your network right now? The usual answer is “check the spreadsheet”, and nobody is quite sure which copy is current. That's awkward during an outage and worse during an audit, or on the day a vendor advisory asks which switches run a vulnerable firmware build. Network inventory management retires that spreadsheet. In its place, you get a record that changes when the devices do, with hardware, addresses, VLANs and every router and switch config in one place.

What Is Cloud Networking? Types, Benefits and How to Monitor It

Think about Outlook, Salesforce or the shared drive your staff open each morning, and at least one of them probably runs in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. That puts a good share of your traffic on a cloud network nobody on your team has ever seen. You still own a lot of that path (the VPN link, the route tables, the security groups), and it breaks in ways an office network doesn't.