Cove 25.7 Release
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With AI, You're Gonna Have to Manage Your (Massive) Energy Use in SPM
Forget boring spreadsheets. Strategic portfolio management (SPM) isn't just about ticking boxes. It’s the big boss plan that makes sure every penny spent and every project your company starts points towards the main goal. It's your company's smart GPS, guiding you through the AI energy maze. When it comes to AI's power hunger, SPM is a knight in shining armor. It helps leaders get smart, making sure they grab all the fancy tech without trashing the world.
From Burnout to Believer: Why Aaron Betts Came Back Stronger
In this episode of Now That’s IT, Aaron Betts shares his remarkable journey—from launching his first MSP in 2005 and losing it all during the financial crisis, to taking a corporate detour, burning out, and ultimately returning to lead Intelesys as President. Aaron opens up about the hard-earned lessons of entrepreneurship, the shift from break/fix to managed services, and how a life-altering health scare reshaped his leadership style. He shares how he's rebuilding company culture, redefining success, and guiding his MSP toward a $10M vision—all while empowering his team to think bigger.
Kentik Cause Analysis in 60 Seconds
In a world where network traffic can suddenly spike, manually sifting through flow data is often a daunting task. Kentik AI's new Cause Analysis simplifies troubleshooting by quickly identifying changes in traffic by application, IP, ASN, or service. With just a few clicks, Cause Analysis helps you compare time periods, understand traffic shifts, and detect changes in your network. Kentik: Take the hard work out of running your network.
Cloudflare's DNS Downtime: Why BGP Hijacks Were Never to Blame
On July 14, Cloudflare’s popular public DNS service (known as 1.1.1.1) suffered an outage lasting over two hours. As rumors swirled about the cause, we were the first to push back on the theory that a BGP hijack had caused the outage. In fact, the hijack was actually a consequence. How did we know this so early when other internet watchers did not? We’ll discuss in this post.
Streamlining the Complexity of SD-WAN Deployments With DX NetOps Topology
If you're feeling like your network operations just keep getting more complicated, you're not wrong. One of the core promises of cloud models was improved simplicity. However, the ensuing reality for your network operations teams has been anything but simple. Suddenly, users and applications are everywhere. Traditional, on-premises equipment now coexists with software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs), cloud-hosted resources, and hybrid connections that hop across public and private networks.
Building a bulletproof network disaster recovery plan
Imagine it’s 2am. A core switch fries because of a sudden power surge. Most of your users wake up to a blank screen. Your team scrambles: Where’s the backup configuration? Who knows the last working state? Hours pass, productivity tanks, support calls flood in, and costs stack up by the minute. This isn’t a theoretical horror story. According to Gartner, the average cost of network downtime still hovers around $5,600 per minute, or over $300,000 per hour.
The Network Impact on Job Completion Time in AI Model Training
In large-scale AI model training, network performance is no longer a supporting actor — it’s center stage. Job Completion Time (JCT), the key metric for measuring training efficiency, is heavily influenced by the network interconnecting thousands of GPUs. In this post, learn why JCT matters, how microbursts and GPU synchronization delays inflate it, and how platforms like Kentik give network engineers the visibility and intelligence they need to keep training jobs on schedule.
Is Your "Single Pane of Glass" Leaving You Blind to the Real Problem?
In the push to simplify IT management, the idea of a single, all-encompassing AIOps platform is certainly appealing. The promise of one dashboard to monitor the entire IT stack—from applications and infrastructure to the network—suggests a world of streamlined operations. This generalist approach aims to provide a broad overview, correlating data from across the business to spot trends and potential issues.
5 Notable Examples of Network Maps and Diagrams
A network map is a visual representation of the devices and connections that make up an IT network. For IT professionals, network maps are essential tools for monitoring performance, troubleshooting issues, enhancing security and planning infrastructure upgrades. There are multiple types of network maps, each serving a specific purpose, ranging from physical layout diagrams to cloud-based and security-oriented architectures.