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Auvik + ConnectWise: An Integrated Approach to Greater Network Visibility & Faster MTTR

Network management shouldn’t be an unmanageable—or unprofitable—task. Discover how Auvik integrates with ConnectWise to give you true network visibility and control, from one centralized view. It’s designed to streamline your workflows and help you close tickets faster, so you can scale your operations.

What You Can Learn From the 2020 Network Vendor Diversity Report

In our third year of producing the Network Vendor Diversity Report, we’ve learned the network hardware market is becoming more crowded and fragmented as time goes on. Nearly two-thirds of all IT service providers are managing more than five network vendors per client. Cisco still maintains its reign as the most commonly deployed vendor on today’s managed networks, but its share continues to decline as vendors like Ubiquiti chip away at its lead.

Securing Your Expanding Network Perimeter

Cybersecurity attacks, such as ransomware and phishing scams, have delivered crippling IT blows in the public sector for some time. And here’s the bad news—these attacks have proliferated in the days of COVID-19. A new report from Google found a 350% increase in phishing attacks since the beginning of the year. To better defend against today’s cyberattacks, state and local governments are increasingly exploring the benefits of software-defined networking (SDN).

Monitor Windows hosts with Network Performance Monitoring

If you’re running a mix of Windows– and Linux–based hosts in hybrid or cloud environments, network monitoring is especially important—and especially difficult. As network topologies are becoming increasingly distributed and dynamic, you need a quick way to identify connectivity issues across regions, services, and operating systems.

Bridging Visibility Gaps in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring

When cloud adoption shifts from a new trend to daily reality, it causes headaches to everyone responsible for the performance, availability, and security of business services or apps. How do you monitor owned and rented infrastructure with all of their differences without creating visibility silos and ending-up with a bunch of disparate tools?

HAProxy Enterprise Support Helps Ring Up Holiday Online Sales

With the second wave of coronavirus sweeping across the nation, experts predict a greater percentage of this year’s holiday shopping to be conducted online than ever before. In fact, a recent National Retail Federation Holiday 2020 survey predicts that “digital purchases will be the primary driver of growth this year” with 96% of respondents expecting more online-only holiday sales as consumers are less likely to visit actual stores.

Enhance and automate your cybersecurity operations

Watch Keysight and Flowmon present a cybersecurity solution reaching into the layer one transmission and utilizing behavior analysis to identify a hacker’s fingerprint.  Keysight will give a high level explanation on how to build an efficient visibility architecture utilizing Taps and Network Packet Brokers. Keysight will then provide an introduction to Threat simulator, a breach and attack simulation platform, which will be used in the demonstration to provide realistic attack traffic to the Flowmon. 

A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Modern Dashboards on the Orion Platform - SolarWinds Lab #93

Turning data into information and information into decisions are some of the most common challenges facing any monitoring professional. A clean, easy-to-interpret dashboard can go a long way in turning those raw numbers into actionable decisions. In this heavily requested follow-up episode, Kevin M. Sparenberg, technical content manager for THWACK®, presents a step-by-step build for modern dashboards.

Virtualizing the Core Network

Service Providers are virtualizing their core networks in an effort to offer premium quality services with reduced resources, costs, and faster time to market. As the industry moves towards 5G, opportunities to advance the virtualization of fixed voice core networks and moving forward on a path to an increasingly cloud-native future enables service providers to gain a competitive edge in the marketplace.

Milestone Met - 100k IPv6 Subnets Announced!

It took about twenty-three years, a couple of IPv6 days, the exhaustion of most of the IPv4 address pools available at Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), and the increase of prices in IPv4 address market, but finally, it looks like IPv6 made it and met one important threshold in November 2020 – 100k IPv6 prefixes are now currently announced on the Internet!