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Your network operations center (NOC) team plays an important role in your enterprise — and you want to do everything possible to help this team succeed. With these 10 best NOC dashboard examples, you can do just that. Bonus Material: NOC Automated Workflow Example PDF There’s no shortage of NOC dashboard examples, but deciding which ones work best for your enterprise NOC team can be challenging.

Your NOC data center is vital to your enterprise’s success, due to the fact that it bridges the gap between your computer network and telecommunications infrastructure. This center also enables your enterprise to quickly and effectively identify IT downtime and outages and address these incidents before they damage your enterprise and its stakeholders.

Working remotely has grown over the past several months for many organizations. The ability to provide remote access involves being able to control access to network and cloud-based servers while allowing employees to access the data and files they require to do their jobs. Remote access is also needed to monitor what data and files employees are accessing. Working remotely allows a business to continue to operate when employees are not able to work in the office.

In any given network, switches, routers, and firewalls may support different flow protocols. After all, there’s NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and J-Flow, to name a few. With so many options, you may be wondering “Which flow protocol should I use?” It’s a common question, and it has a relatively simple answer: While some devices support multiple protocols, a device typically only supports one type of flow protocol, so you should use the protocol your device and collector supports.

Version 2.1 of the HAProxy Data Plane API expands support to all available request and response actions, adds Lua actions, and improves file handling. A year ago, we introduced version 1.0 of the HAProxy Data Plane API, enabling you to configure your HAProxy load balancers remotely through a modern RESTful HTTP API. That first version of the API focused on the essential behaviors for creating frontend proxies, backend server pools, ACLs and traffic switching rules.

As per research published by Hosting Advice, over 56% of employees who felt disengaged at work marked inadequate training as the key reason for it. Over 53% of employees felt that they would be able to perform better at their jobs if they received adequate training. And over 31% of respondents to the research survey stated that they had to quit their jobs less than six months after being hired. Olivia was one of those last set of employees at her first job out of graduate school.