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Broadcom Software Announces Designated Weekend Upgrade Program for DX Unified Infrastructure Management 20.4

Broadcom Software is dedicated to ensuring you are on the latest software releases with the most critical fixes, security enhancements, and integrations. That’s why Broadcom Support has developed a DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) Designated Weekend Upgrade Program to assist you with a successful upgrade to DX UIM 20.4.

Top 5 challenges in Ethernet monitoring and how to simplify them with OpManager

An Ethernet connection helps businesses with critical communication, and even a slight interruption can irritate users or result in costly downtime. On top of this, the larger the network, the more complex the Ethernet network becomes.

Broadcom and AppNeta Deliver Industry-Leading Network Monitoring and End-User Experience Monitoring

On December 7, Broadcom announced its intent to acquire privately held AppNeta Inc. headquartered in Boston, MA. AppNeta’s SaaS-based solutions provide enterprise IT teams with precise, end-to-end visibility into network performance from the end-user’s point of view. Combined with DX NetOps by Broadcom Software, AppNeta monitoring capabilities will help enterprises and service providers to more efficiently diagnose and improve network performance for end-users, independent of what network they use to access applications. For more info, visit broadcom.com/netops

4 reasons why network visualization is integral to successful network management

Businesses in today’s world use networks for almost all their operations. As businesses grow and expand with time, so do their needs. As a result, their networks can become increasingly complex and sophisticated. This can result in network administrators having a harder time monitoring devices and identifying faults. These bottlenecks can be circumvented with network visualization.

Preventing Network Configuration Drift

A cynical network engineer might say, “configuration drift happens when you take the day off.” Someone changed something they shouldn’t have, and didn’t tell anyone. As a result, the network gets just a little less secure, and a little harder to troubleshoot. And then it happens again. And again. And over time, all those little changes that people thought would never mean anything suddenly add up to a network looking a lot different from what it’s supposed to be.

Does Your MSP Have a Single Point of Failure?

When I’m speaking to any IT solution provider or managed service provider (MSP), one of the most common questions I’m asked is, “What’s the one mistake you’d recommend any IT businesses avoid?” My answer is always this: Not documenting your business. The reason is simple. If you don’t document your business, you’ll inevitably find your business is prone to an SPF—a single point of failure.

Achieving Website High Availability

When someone says a website is available, they mean that they can access that website. The application they’re trying to reach is up and working properly. High availability means that the website is up most of the time throughout the year. Companies can even put a percentage on this, striving for 100% availability, but typically getting somewhere a bit less, such as 99.9% or 99.99%.

Ask the Product Experts | THWACK Livecast

We were all new once, stumbling in the dark, feeling our ways along the walls looking for the light. Searching blindly isn’t a good way to approach any technology project, so hearing from the experts is one of the better ways to expound on your knowledge. It doesn’t matter if you’re new to monitoring or a long-time SolarWinds professional; we’re sure there are questions you’ve got for our seasoned veterans.