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The Strategic Shift to Managed Optical Fiber Networks (MOFN)
As digital transformation accelerates, the underlying infrastructure supporting your enterprise or service provider network faces unprecedented pressure. The exponential growth of data, driven by cloud computing, 5G, and particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI), demands a fundamental rethink of how you approach connectivity.
8 Years of Building Obkio: From Network Monitoring to Observability & Network Diagnostics
In 2016, Obkio was just an idea, but it was an idea born from a real problem. Before writing a single line of code, we conducted a market audit to understand why Network Performance Monitoring solutions weren't more mature. We interviewed banks, manufacturing companies, and service providers, and the answer was unanimous: the NPM tools on the market were too complex, and most businesses simply didn't have the internal resources to dedicate full-time to managing them.
Securing 80,000 transactions per second at Infobip with HAProxy Enterprise WAF
The average cost of a security breach reached nearly $4.4 million in 2025, according to the publication Cost of Data Breach Report. To proactively address this substantial financial and security risk, Infobip, a global cloud communications platform, used HAProxy Enterprise to implement a security and uptime framework that is both highly modular and highly performant.
AI Won't Replace IT Jobs - But This Will
AI isn’t the real threat to IT careers. The real risk? Not building the skills that AI can augment. Jon Collins breaks down the “AI augmentation gap.”
Monitor OpenRouter Usage with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz
SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.
Observability Self-Hosted 2026.1 - Routing Insights
SolarWinds Evangelist Chrystal Taylor introduces the new routing insights feature in Observability Self-Hosted 2026.1. This first phase enhancement enriches routing table information with detailed context, including forwarding interface names, VRF data, next hop IPs, and timestamps. The update unifies BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP neighbors in a single dashboard, providing visibility into peer identity, flap counts, health status, and admin states.
Cove Data Protection Feature Focus: Critical Configuration Changes
Cove 26.2 delivers Critical Configuration Changes, the second feature in our Anomaly Detection story. This feature allows users to create event-based alerts for indicators of compromise in their backup policies, such as changed retention schedules, modified backup profiles, or deleted devices. With real-time visibility into these changes, users can take just-in-time action to resolve them before recovery efforts are impacted. In this video, we walk through how to create your first notification and outline the main use cases this feature supports.
9 Best Network Monitoring Tools for 2026
A Rapidly Evolving Network Landscape Demands the Right Monitoring Strategy Choosing the right network monitoring solution has become a mission‑critical decision for IT teams. In recent years networks have become increasingly hybrid, cloud‑distributed and reliant on remote connectivity. For enterprises with complex infrastructures, network monitoring is an essential tool.
Cisco and Megaport: Redefining the Edge of Modern Networking
Explore four Cisco and Megaport Virtual Edge solutions that bring secure, high-performance networking closer to users and clouds. Enterprises have quickly outgrown the constraints of legacy WAN architectures. As cloud and SaaS dominate and users grow more distributed, rigid infrastructure models—complete with backhaul-heavy designs and unpredictable internet performance—no longer work.