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How Console Connect is empowering data centre partners with enhanced connectivity

The digital landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, and businesses are constantly seeking agile, high-performance connectivity solutions to stay ahead. Recognising this, data centres are shifting beyond their traditional role of offering just space and power. Today, they must deliver real-time access to clouds, other data centres, and applications.

Extending the Capabilities of DX Unified Infrastructure Management: Release 23.4 CU4

Release 23.4 Cumulative Update 4 (CU4) for DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) adds significant improvements to the product’s security stance and extends technical currency to support modern infrastructures. The release builds on the proven track record of DX UIM to deliver enterprise-ready capabilities and monitoring coverage, while meeting the highest standards for security, scalability, and performance.

Why you need Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM)

A few decades ago, monitoring your application was simple—everything ran on-premises, and performance issues were easier to pinpoint. But today, applications are built on globally distributed services, running across internal and external systems in the cloud, all connected through the Internet. In a world where the Internet is now your network, traditional APM (Application Performance Monitoring) isn’t enough. It only focuses on code and infrastructure, leaving critical blind spots that impact performance, availability, and user experience.

Breaking Down Silos with Correlation and Context

In modern IT environments, data is abundant, but clarity is rare. Enterprises deploy dozens of monitoring tools to collect metrics, events, and logs from across the network, yet when something goes wrong, teams still scramble to connect the dots. Why? Because these data streams exist in siloes, isolated by format, source, or system.

The State of Routing Security: Progress, Challenges, and Measurement

Kentik's Director of Internet Analysis, Doug Madory, explores the current landscape of BGP routing security. He discusses key progress made in Route Origin Validation (ROV), common pitfalls like AS-SET nesting, and ongoing challenges faced by the networking industry. With real-world examples and detailed traffic analysis from Kentik's extensive NetFlow data, Doug shares his insights and recommendations for NetOps professionals who want to improve their routing security practices. Watch this webinar replay to learn the latest methods for securing the global internet.

How HTTPS (HTTP) Proxies Differ from SOCKS5: Understanding Protocol Differences

A proxy server functions as a go-between for the client and the destination server. It's commonly used to bypass content restrictions, boost online security, and improve anonymity. There are several types of proxy protocols available, with HTTP and SOCKS being among the most widely used. But how exactly do they differ-and how should you decide which one to use?