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AFK: The Only Status You Need When AFW - SolarWinds TechPod 103

What does real work-life balance look like in tech? In this honest and funny conversation, Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor share stories from their sabbaticals, burnout moments, and how they learned to unplug — for real this time. Topics we get into: Why burnout hits tech pros harder than most The art of saying “no” and setting healthy boundaries How to stop chasing “perfect” and embrace good enough Why taking time off sets a better example for your team Reframing success: from “always on” to sustainably productive.

Boosting Profitability with Ribbon Intelligent Solutions

Ready to Make Your Network Smarter? Ribbon’s Exclusive Preview Before Africa Tech Festival Attend to Learn About Ribbon's: Intelligent Automated IP Optical Networks Multilayer Automation & AIOps The Path towards Autonomous Networks Don’t miss this chance to see what’s next for service providers.

Network Destinations: ICMP Monitoring Feature Highlight - Obkio

Introducing Network Destinations, Obkio's all-new ICMP Monitoring feature. Quick question: are you paying for a second tool just to ping a few IPs? We heard that a lot. So we fixed it. Now, here's the thing about Obkio. We've always been laser-focused on agent-to-agent performance monitoring. Our secret? Distributed monitoring agents. Deploy them at your sites and over the Internet, and you get complete visibility between them, all in the app.

Megaport and Latitude.sh: Bringing Compute and Connectivity Together

Megaport has entered into an agreement to acquire Latitude.sh, creating an industry-leading Compute and Network-as-a-Service platform to power high-performance applications and AI workloads globally. At Megaport, we’ve always believed infrastructure should be simple to use, powerful at scale, and flexible enough to follow the workloads that matter most.

From Alerts to Assets: Mastering the Lifecycle of Your Telecom-Heavy Infrastructure

Modern organizations run on connectivity. Whether it's cloud communications, unified collaboration tools, or large-scale IoT networks, telecom infrastructure has become the nervous system of business operations. Every message, call, and data packet flows through this intricate network - and with that, the complexity of managing it has grown exponentially.

Microsoft Teams Monitoring to Troubleshoot & Optimize Performance

Microsoft Teams has become the collaboration backbone for businesses worldwide. But when call quality drops during a crucial client meeting or files won't upload before a deadline, productivity grinds to a halt. The frustration? These issues are usually preventable. The challenge with Teams is that problems can originate from multiple sources: user devices, network infrastructure, or Microsoft's platform itself.

From Plan to Practice: Strengthen Incident Response with Tabletop Exercises

N-able Head Nerd Lewis Pope explains how Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and IT teams can use cybersecurity tabletop exercises to improve incident response readiness. Learn how to design, facilitate, and get business value from these exercises -plus access free CISA and N-able resources to help you get started. Watch now to strengthen your team’s response before the next cyber incident hits.

Show Me the AI: Rethinking How AI Fits Into Network Operations

Over the last couple of years, nearly every network and infrastructure observability platform has added the word “AI” to its messaging. Some have introduced helpful capabilities. Others have simply added a chatbot on top of the same dashboards that have existed for a decade. In many ways, the term has started to lose meaning. But inside network operations, the conversation hasn’t disappeared. It has simply become more blunt.

Reimagining Network and Security Operations: How AI and Automation Are Transforming the Modern NOC & SOC

In today’s hyper-connected, always-on enterprise landscape, every second of downtime, every unnoticed anomaly, and every delayed response can have cascading business implications. Traditional Network and Security Operations Centers (NOCs and SOCs), built on manual triage and siloed data, were never designed for this pace or scale.

How Auvik Helps MSPs Eliminate Network Alert Fatigue

When alerts come in hot and fast, alert fatigue can quickly set in, overwhelming you with the volume and becoming one of the biggest operational problems for MSPs. Not knowing what to handle first and prioritize in a long list of alerts puts a strain on one of the most valuable resources you have: focus. When your technicians are constantly switching contexts and sifting through a flood of low-priority alerts, it’s asking a lot of them to stay sharp. That constant mental juggling takes a toll.