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New feature alert: OpManager MSP's NCM add-on for a seamless configuration and compliance management

According to ABC News, there has been a 600% rise in security intrusions during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is expected to double before 2025. In many circumstances, admins and technicians either intentionally or unintentionally play a part in the process of derailing the organization’s strategy for success. In order to prevent such mishaps, MSPs need a recovery plan to recuperate from any unfortunate accidents or cyberattacks.

Colt Technology Services selects Infovista KLERITY to deliver VoIP Service Assurance across its international network

Major project upgrades end-to-end service quality assurance supporting latest specifications and encryption types within an expandable framework built for emerging use cases such as multi tenancy and machine learning.

Moving in Concert: What is SD-WAN, and Where is it Going?

Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) is a software overlay that decouples WAN configuration and management from the underlying network transport medium (5G/LTE, MPLS, xDSL, etc) and dynamically routes WAN traffic. To the uninitiated, that’s a mouthful. But it’s one of the most interesting trends of the last few years. Let’s jump on the bandwagon! Time for a primer on SD-WAN, why it matters, and where it’s heading now and into the future.

A guide to Google Cloud Platform regions

Google Cloud is underpinned by a global network of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions that help bring its services closer to users and improve reliability and speed. In this blog, we look at the rollout of GCP regions and locations worldwide, and explain the benefits of using a direct connection to access them.

Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.5

The focus of the 2.5 version was on expanding support for HAProxy configuration keywords, and that’s where most of the effort during this release cycle was spent. We will continue doing that during the next couple of versions to gain complete feature parity with both the HAProxy configuration and Runtime API so that you can use the Data Plane API as a full-featured way to configure HAProxy.

How to Detect Network Congestion

We’ve all been stuck in traffic congestion on the road at some point in our lives. Traffic congestion may happen when there’s too many cars on the road, when there’s an accident or a closed street. Network congestion isn’t too different from that - but instead of cars causing congestion, it’s a different type of traffic. That’s why, in this article, we’re running you through how to detect network congestion with Network Monitoring tools.

Ask me Anything with WUG Ninja

You may have heard about an ‘Ask Me Anything, and its popularity across social media platforms like Instagram and Reddit. In our first Ask me Anything Webinar for What’s up Gold, our in-resident WUG Ninja, whom you’ve seen in many other webinars will be here to answer your questions about WhatsUp Gold! In this on-demand session, we’re turning it to you, to ask us questions. But there’s one catch, you have to submit the questions ahead of time (in the form on the right). You can ask us whatever you want, but here are some sample questions to get your creative juices flowing.