Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

By now, most organizations have realized the benefits of moving some, most, or all of their business applications to the cloud. The cloud typically offers better security and performance, at a lower price, than housing resources on-premises. You may have helped them in that migration or you may have been hired after it was complete. Either way, a client with cloud hosting has different network requirements than one whose infrastructure is primarily on-premises.

Remote network monitoring is the process of monitoring and managing network resources and activity from a remote location using software and tools that allow network administrators to monitor network performance, troubleshoot problems, and ensure that the network is secure and operating efficiently.

One of the most anticipated presentations at HAProxyConf 2025 came from gaming and user-generated content (UGC) innovators Roblox. Software Engineer Chris Jones and Senior Site Reliability Engineer Ben Meidel gave an enthusiastic and enjoyable presentation, detailing their journey from legacy hardware to a sophisticated, automated, and secure application delivery platform, with seamless, API-powered dynamic configuration and upgrades, supported by the HAProxy Enterprise Dynamic Update Module.

Your network is not a static entity. It is a living system that has been running for years, absorbing countless changes. While your infrastructure may appear healthy on the surface, a slow and silent saboteur is often at work, methodically undermining your infrastructure from within. This is not the work of a malicious actor. It’s the inevitable result of a process you may not even be tracking: configuration drift.

Log management and Network Detection and Response (NDR) solutions are closely related but offer different layers of visibility. Rather than overlapping, they complement each other, together providing a connected view of what’s happening in your environment. How exactly? Let’s take a closer look.

Your remote developer can't access the VPN. Is it his home router? His ISP? Your network? You have no idea and no way to find out. This is the reality of modern IT. Your network doesn't end at your office perimeter. It extends into hundreds of homes, coffee shops, branch offices, and third-party locations you'll never set foot in. And when performance tanks, you're troubleshooting blind.

HAProxy 3.3 is here, and this release brings downloadable packages compiled by HAProxy Technologies, numerous TLS enhancements including expanded ACME support, better observability with persistent stats over reloads, and many improvements to performance and flexibility such as support for QUIC on the backend. These powerful capabilities help HAProxy remain the G2 category leader in API Management, Container Networking, DDoS Protection, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and Load Balancing.

When your Kubernetes cluster handles thousands of workloads, every millisecond counts. And that pressure is no longer the exception; it is the norm. According to a recent CNCF survey, 93% of organizations are using, piloting, or evaluating Kubernetes, revealing just how pervasive it has become. Kubernetes has grown from a promising orchestration tool into the backbone of modern infrastructure. As adoption climbs, so does pressure to keep performance high, networking efficient, and security airtight.

Learn what IPsec is, how it works, key protocols and VPN types, and how to combine IPsec with NaaS for secure, scalable network connectivity.