How Network Operations Teams Use InfluxDB to Solve Network Monitoring Gaps
Organizations are starting to question whether the value they get from traditional Network Monitoring Systems (NMS) justifies the budget they’ve locked into them.
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How Dartmouth avoided vendor lock-in and implemented LBaaS with HAProxy One
History is everywhere at Dartmouth College, and while the campus is steeped in tradition, its IT infrastructure can’t afford to get stuck in the past. In an institution where world-class research and undergraduate studies intersect, technology must be fast, invisible, and – above all – reliable. That reliability was put to the test when Dartmouth’s load balancing vendor was acquired twice in five years, as Avi Networks moved to VMware and VMware moved to Broadcom.
The E-Commerce Critical Path Checklist
It’s your site’s huge, annual sale weekend, and your online store’s checkout process went down for 10 minutes. At your conversion rate, that’s $10,000 in lost sales. Thankfully, it came back up after only 10 minutes, but the real issue is that you only found out from customer complaints on social media. You spent months on email marketing and other campaigns driving traffic to this sale, and now those efforts are turning into customer frustration instead of revenue.
Are We Letting AI Think for Us? | SolarWinds TechPod #105
We’re more dependent on technology than ever—and AI is changing how we make decisions. But what happens when the systems fail? Or when bad actors decide to “pull the plug”? This clip dives into a scary but necessary question: Are we losing our ability to critically think and problem-solve by relying too much on AI? Is AI leveling the playing field—or quietly taking over human decision-making? A must-watch conversation about innovation, outages, AI risk, and why having a backup plan matters more than ever.
Properly securing OpenClaw with authentication
OpenClaw (née MoltBot, née ClawdBot) is taking over the world. Everyone is spinning their own, either on a VPS, or their own Mac mini. But here's the problem: OpenClaw is brand new, and its security posture is mostly unknown. Security researchers have already found thousands of publicly available instances exposing everything from credentials to private messages.
"Not Having Kentik Is Unacceptable": 5 Service Providers on Kentik
Five customers explain why Kentik is essential for understanding traffic, controlling network cost, and planning for growth. Hear from Sorin Esanu (Race Communications), Michael Leclaire (MetroNet), John Lubeck (Midco), Wallace Lee (Imperva), and Everett Sinclair (Conway Corporation) on how they use Kentik to see “the bits on the wire,” dig deeper than traditional reporting tools, and turn network data into better customer experiences.
3 Service Providers on Kentik AI Advisor: Faster Answers, Faster Fixes
Three service provider customers share how Kentik AI Advisor helps them move faster, troubleshoot smarter, and put network data in more hands across the team. Hear from Everett Sinclair (Conway Corporation), Michael Leclaire (MetroNet), and John Lubeck (Midco) on why they chose Kentik to unify flow analytics, baselining, and anomaly detection in one platform, and how Kentik AI features make it easier to explore, explain, and act on what’s happening in their networks.
10 Benefits of Remote Network Monitoring (RMON)
The rise of hybrid work has fundamentally changed where IT problems occur. Five years ago, most network issues happened in your data center or office network (infrastructure you could access, control, and troubleshoot directly). Today, the majority of critical issues occur in home offices, coffee shops, and remote locations where you have zero infrastructure access and limited visibility.
How One ISP Flipped Transit-to-CDN from 10% to 90% (Midco's Peering Playbook)
"When we started, maybe ten percent of our traffic went to a CDN. Now it's ninety percent on the CDNs or local caches and ten percent goes to transit. We've really flipped the whole script." — John Lubeck, Midco.
Auvik's 2026 IT & Network Management Predictions
As IT environments become more distributed, automated, and AI-driven, 2026 will represent a major inflection point for how organizations manage networks, security, and operational resilience. From shadow AI and governance to AI-driven automation and economic uncertainty, Auvik’s executive leadership team shares their predictions on what’s coming, and what IT leaders and MSPs should be preparing for now.