Cloud-based services have changed how individuals and businesses get things done. That doesn’t mean it’s all positive — there are some tradeoffs and compromises that come with cloud services and the internet. One major tradeoff is speed. For instance, if your website fails to load within three seconds, 40% of your visitors will abandon your site. That’s a serious dent for anyone doing business online. The culprit here is latency.

Continuing from my previous blog on the series, What you can’t do with Kubernetes network policies (unless you use Calico), this post will be focusing on use case number five — Default policies which are applied to all namespaces or pods.

Kentik now provides network insight into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) workloads, allowing customers to map, query, and visualize OCI, hybrid, and multi-cloud traffic and performance.

We are pleased to announce that several Broadcom software products are now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace, providing Google Cloud customers with market leading value stream management and network performance monitoring capabilities via a simplified procurement process and consolidated billing with their Google Cloud account.

Canonical announced today that it has joined the board of the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance (OSA) as a Strategic Member. By working together, both organisations aim to develop an end-to-end, open source and open API wireless software stack, and to deliver turnkey solutions for customers and partners.

Monitoring your network performance is important for many reasons and can help in detecting network issues such as bandwidth congestion, latency, packet loss, or hardware failures. By continuously monitoring your network, you can identify areas where improvements can be made, allowing for optimization of resources, better allocation of bandwidth, and overall enhancement of network efficiency.

In today's digital-first landscape, maintaining the health and performance of your network is critical for the seamless operation of your business and its services. To that end, network observability has emerged as a key concept and discipline in ensuring the robustness and performance of networks. But what is network observability?