If the users aren’t happy, then in short order, neither will anyone else be. The ubiquity of information technology has exposed users to the best the IT industry has to offer—and the worst. So, if end-user experience is king, how does one go about ensuring users stay happy? The short answer is application performance management (APM) tools. Users don’t care if the apps they use are in the cloud, on-premises, or something in between.

Multicast networking is based on the simple concept that a single packet can be sent by a server and it will be received by many receivers. Multicast is different from broadcast because it’s more selective. Where broadcast packets are received by all receivers in a particular network segment (or broadcast domain), multicast packets are received only by receivers that want them. Also, multicast receivers can be distributed throughout a larger network behind routers.

HAProxy provides an easy and straightforward way to add HTTPS to your website. As a load balancer positioned in front of your web servers, it can handle all of the encryption and decryption duties, offloading those tasks from your upstream servers. That’s good because in today’s age of privacy awareness, the consensus is that every website must implement HTTPS, regardless of whether sensitive or private information is being exchanged.

Obkio is announcing a new Public Monitoring Agent with daregraphic, a technology consulting firm focused on the conception and set up of distance-work/remote graphic environments. Learn more about their new Public Monitoring Agent deployed in Montreal, and more Agents coming soon.

Latin America’s cloud ecosystem stands on the brink of change. Traditionally, businesses in the region have relied on access to cloud infrastructure and services hosted in the US. But the acceleration of cloud adoption in Latin American markets, such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Mexico, is attracting the attention of hyper-scale cloud providers and leading to new investment in data centres.

The work being done on federal, state, and local levels to ensure the health of society during and post-COVID-19 will be driven by the Internet of Things (IoT). From contact tracing to drones, the reopening of America will be regulated by millions of data streams delivered from thousands of connection points. IT practitioners will be tasked with making sense of all the information coming across their screens. Different devices produce different types of data streams and logs.

When it comes to network monitoring all types of IT infrastructure ranging from consolidated to distributed workload conditions even the largest insurance company face challenges. Although, the organization gets access to a large human capital base, enjoys the trust & brand equity of millions of customers, and always has resources to immediately address its strategic concerns. But still to monitor the hybrid IT environment and get a comprehensive picture is in itself a challenge!

Modern networks are complex beasts. With this complexity comes many opportunities for things to go wrong. Additionally, networks are often the backbone of businesses, and so when they don’t perform to the best of their capabilities, your business may suffer. As a network administrator, this is certainly something you’d rather avoid. One of the best ways to avoid business-impacting issues is to see them coming and fix them before they have a chance to wreak havoc.