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Configuring and Troubleshooting Multicast Protocols

There are two important protocols required to get your network to forward multicast packets: IGMP and PIM. In this article, I’ll show you how to set up these protocols on your network and how to troubleshoot them. PIM (Protocol Independent Multicast) has two main versions called “dense-mode” and “sparse-mode.” There is also a “sparse-dense-mode,” which has features of both versions and is really just used to help to bootstrap a multicast network.

vSphere 7 with Tanzu Integrates with HAProxy for Load Balancing Enterprise-grade Kubernetes

VMware chose HAProxy as the default load balancer for Tanzu Kubernetes clusters, which helped streamline load balancing in their Kubernetes platform. VMware has delivered vSphere 7 with Tanzu, its endeavor to embed an enterprise-grade version of Kubernetes inside vSphere, the industry-leading compute virtualization platform.

Console Connect Ecosystem Update November 2020

The Console Connect ecosystem is rapidly expanding. To help you keep up-to-speed, each month we are bringing you updates on all our latest data centre, cloud and SaaS interconnect locations, as well as introducing you to some of our newest ecosystem partners. Now, we’ve extended your reach even further! In the last month, we have on-boarded new data centres, cloud locations and new SaaS partners!

COVID-19 & Work-at-Home Trends Mean Simplified Networking Processes

In 2020, business networks faced one of their biggest challenges since the dawn of the digital age – the sudden, completely unexpected worldwide disruption brought on by the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Suddenly networks – and network admins – had to quickly adapt to a new networking paradigm, one where as many workers as possible were stationed at home.

Integrating Network Automation for Better Monitoring and Performance

Network Monitoring is often considered the key in ensuring an efficiently run network. However, as the business and its operations keep expanding, network monitoring goes from being a responsibility to become a necessity. At a larger scale, network issues can result in significant hindrances for the operations.

Kemp Acquires Flowmon Networks: Ray Downes and J Tobola

Kemp acquires Flowmon for predictive network performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPDM) and network detection and response (NDR). Kemp boosts load balancing and application delivery controller (ADC) solutions with advanced flow-based monitoring and encrypted traffic analysis to enable customers to uncover cybersecurity blind spots and accelerate application incident response. Kemp Technologies CEO Ray Downes and Flowmon Networks CEO J Tobola discuss the acquisition.

Port scanner 101: What it is and why should you use it

In today’s complex network infrastructure comprised of diverse resources, devices, and users, port scans represent a significant amount of network traffic. Crackers and hackers alike use port scanners to discover port vulnerabilities that can become attack vectors to malicious outcomes. In this post, we discuss the fundamentals of port scanning, and why you need to deploy an effective port scanner software on your network right now.

Power your digitalization with End-User Experience Monitoring

In the digital world, user-centricity is the one thing all successful modern applications have in common. But no matter how great the application is, users’ experience - whether customers or employees - is instantly ruined if performance degrades. This webinar will explain the differences between four major approaches to application and user experience monitoring and show how to get true end-to-end coverage by combining them.

Announcing HAProxy 2.3

HAProxy 2.3 adds exciting features such as forwarding, prioritizing,and translating of messages sent over the Syslog Protocol on both UDP and TCP, Stats Contexts, SSL/TLS enhancements, an improved cache, and changes in the connection layer that lay the foundation for support for HTTP/3 / QUIC. This release was truly a community effort and could not have been made possible without all of the hard work from everyone involved in active discussions on the mailing list and the HAProxy project GitHub.

VoIP during remote work, and meeting its QoS challenges

Though remote work has been in practice for a decent number of years, the pandemic has made businesses take up the challenge of shifting to a completely remote workforce. All this wouldn't have been possible without high-speed internet access for all employees. Another tool that has made the transition smooth and ensured uninterrupted communication is Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).