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What is a Firewall? Understanding Your Organization's First Line of Defense

Your organization depends on reliable network and endpoint security to ensure that all data is handled, stored, and protected properly. Generally, a comprehensive network security plan includes anti-virus software, access management, zero-trust policies, and endpoint security tools, among other things. A Firewall is considered to be one of the most important components of a network security plan.

How to Create Powerful, Customized Lua Mailers in HAProxy

SysOps teams know how crucial observability is to maintaining around-the-clock infrastructure health. And while HAProxy already provides reliable logging and stats (for diagnostics and monitoring), what if you could supplement those with a real-time alerting system? That idea inspired our initial inclusion of mailers in HAProxy. Since then, users have been asking for deeper mailer customizability—and we’re thrilled to deliver that with Lua-based email alerts in HAProxy 2.8.

The Great Network Observability Debate

You may have heard the term “network observability” regarding solutions that offer a deep and contextual view into the network. You’ve likely heard other terms, such as ‘network visibility,’ “network visualization” and of course “network monitoring.” But, experts argue, what these terms each truly means is still open for debate.

Troubleshooting a SaaS App in Kentik

Kentik's Phil Gervasi explains how Kentik's network observability platform helps IT professionals troubleshoot performance problems with SaaS applications. He demonstrates how Kentik's network observability platform can monitor popular SaaS providers, such as Office 365, Salesforce, GitHub, Dropbox, and more, using synthetic testing mechanisms. By capturing metrics like packet loss, latency, DNS resolution, and page load time, Kentik provides valuable insights into SaaS performance. Phil takes you through a real-life example of investigating a poorly performing SaaS application and showcases how Kentik's tools pinpoint network latency issues, both regionally and globally.

Troubleshooting a SaaS performance problem with Kentik

Discover how Kentik’s network observability platform aids in troubleshooting SaaS performance problems, offering a detailed view of packet loss, latency, jitter, DNS resolution time, and more. Phil Gervasi explains how to use Kentik’s synthetic testing and State of the Internet service to monitor popular SaaS providers like Microsoft 365.

How to Measure Bandwidth: Techniques for Precise Network Measurement

For businesses managing large enterprise networks, network performance is critical for productivity and seamless communication. To ensure optimal operations and user experience, accurately measuring your network's bandwidth is key. In this blog post, we'll explore techniques and tools tailored for businesses to achieve precise network bandwidth measurements. Measuring bandwidth goes beyond assessing Internet speed.

DX NetOps in Action: How Kyndryl Scaled SD-WAN Monitoring by 50%

Kyndryl is the world’s largest provider of IT infrastructure services, serving thousands of enterprise customers in more than 60 countries. The company has 4,400 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100. The company designs, builds, manages, and modernizes the complex, mission-critical information systems that the world depends on every day. Kyndryl was formed when IBM spun off its Global Technology Services division in 2021.

How to connect your digital ecosystem in Singapore

Singapore’s location at the crossroads of important trade lines and the gateway to Asia has long given it strategic advantage as a hub for global industry, originally as a nexus for physical trade routes and now for digital connectivity, with more than 25 subsea cables landing on the island connecting Singapore to every continent.