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The Cloud And SD-WAN

As more and more businesses move to the cloud, they discover that their traditional wide area networks (WANs) can no longer serve their needs. SD-WAN is a networking solution that offers many other benefits over traditional WANs, including reduced costs, improved performance, and increased flexibility. But what does SD-WAN stand for? Below, we'll take a deeper look at what SD-WAN solutions are and how they can help your business take advantage of the cloud.

Internet Availability Threats Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks impacting availability have been rising. The attacks aren’t only affecting Russia and Ukraine either. Public and private organizations in multiple industries have been impacted, and several nations—including the U.S. and U.K.—have issued warnings about cyberthreats from Russia.

DX UIM 20.4, Cumulative Update 4: What's New and Why Upgrade

At Broadcom Software, we’re constantly trying to speed value delivery and minimize upgrade efforts for our customers. Toward that end, the DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) team releases cumulative updates every calendar quarter. In addition to quality fixes, these cumulative updates include performance improvements, feature enhancements, and expanded platform support. Recently DX UIM 20.4, cumulative update 4, was released for both Operator Console and Server Core packs.

3 Lessons from a DNS Resolution Failure Incident

Whether you are a Site Reliability or Network Engineer, or simply involved in monitoring a digital service, you know by now that if DNS is not working properly – your users are experiencing an outage. However, despite its importance in ensuring the resilience and availability of the web, DNS is often not monitored correctly, which can mean undetected outages and any associated ripple effects on your business.

How Cribl Stream Helps Enterprises Handle UDP Syslog Challenges

Syslog is a very common method for transmitting data from network devices and open systems servers data to analytics platforms like Elastic and Splunk. As adaptable as syslog is, it still has significant constraints, which is a pain for most companies that lack the resources to scale their capability needed for syslog.

8 reasons why network observability is critical for DDoS detection and mitigation

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been a continuous threat since the advent of the commercial internet. The struggle between security experts and DDoS protection is an asymmetrical war where $30 attacks can jeopardize millions of dollars for companies in downtime and breaches of contract. They can also be a smokescreen for something worse, such as the infiltration of malware.