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Why Campus Network Transformation is a Strategic Advantage

Sep 3, 2026 By Perry Heliger In C1
For years, the campus network was largely invisible. Students expected to connect to Wi-Fi before class. Faculty logged into learning management systems without thinking about the infrastructure supporting them. Researchers transferred data, administrators processed financial aid, and campus operations continued uninterrupted because the network quietly did its job. When it worked, nobody noticed. When it didn't, IT received a flood of help desk tickets. That dynamic has fundamentally changed.
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SAP HANA Monitoring Tools 2026: How to Compare Options and Simplify Monitoring

Sep 2, 2026 By Piotr Pękala In SolarWinds
If your team works with SAP HANA, the main challenge usually isn’t finding another dashboard. The real difficulty is identifying which tool can quickly help you trace vague complaints about slow transactions to their root cause. In many setups, SAP HANA monitoring is divided among native SAP interfaces, cloud monitoring, infrastructure dashboards, and the broader monitoring systems used by the rest of IT. This fragmented approach can slow down root cause analysis.
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Why Connectivity Is the Next Growth Opportunity for Managed Service Providers

Sep 2, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
Learn how NaaS helps MSPs add connectivity services and respond faster to customers without building a global network. For many Managed Service Providers (MSPs), connectivity is still the part of a customer solution they control the least. An MSP may manage the cloud environment and secure access to it, but adding a circuit can still mean carrier lead times and manual coordination. Options may also narrow when the customer enters a new market. This reality doesn’t match with customer expectations.
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For whoever has to explain the cloud bill to finance every month.

Sep 2, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
As infrastructure gets more complex, with workloads spread across clouds, regions, and providers, every hop your data takes between them adds up. Where do these costs actually come from? Has your team ever traced a surprise bill back to data movement? With Megaport, cloud egress costs are minimized by routing data privately between providers, avoiding the higher transfer rates associated with public internet routing.
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Outrun the Threat Window: AI-accelerated Vulnerability and Patch Management

Sep 2, 2026 By N-able In N-able
The gap between vulnerability disclosure and active exploitation is shrinking—often from weeks to mere hours. Traditional patching cycles no longer cut it. In this session, discover how AI-accelerated solutions can help you: Identify exposed assets faster Prioritize vulnerabilities by real-world risk Remediate across Windows, macOS, Linux, and hundreds of apps Verify success with a connected workflow Learn how our approach, powered by AI-driven insights and automation, can help you close the gap before attackers strike. Watch now and take control of your patch management.
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Kentik

Latest BGP Hijack Targets Hosting Software Vendor

Sep 2, 2026 By Doug Madory In Kentik
This post analyzes the technical details of the BGP hijack against Softaculous Ltd, the company behind the Softaculous auto-installer and the Virtualizor VM management platform. The hijack enabled an attacker to fraudulently obtain a TLS certificate and use it to deliver a malicious Virtualizor update to a portion of the company’s customer base.
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How to Break Into Network Engineering With Network+ and No Prior Experience

How to Break Into Network Engineering With Network+ and No Prior Experience

Sep 2, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Breaking into network engineering can feel difficult when every job posting seems to ask for experience you do not have yet. But experience does not always have to start with a full-time networking role. Certifications, hands-on labs, personal projects, and entry-level IT work can all help you build the foundation employers expect.
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AI in the public sector (infrastructure challenges and solutions)

Sep 1, 2026 By Amina Mujkanovic In HAProxy
The U.S. government has cataloged over 1,700 active AI use cases, and nearly 90% of federal agencies are already using or planning to use AI. The European Commission has disclosed nearly 1,500 AI use cases across EU member states. With over 3,200 combined AI use cases cataloged across the US and EU, public sector IT leaders face an identical roadblock: traditional application delivery controllers were not designed to parse or throttle Layer 7 LLM payloads, leading to backend GPU exhaustion.
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What is Network Visibility and How do you Achieve It?

Aug 31, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
What happens when the segment that failed was never reporting to anything? The incident stops being a diagnosis and turns into a search, and the cost of that search lands on the business rather than on the network team. Network visibility measures how much of your environment can account for itself under pressure. Most teams assume their coverage is broadly complete because their monitoring platform reports thousands of healthy objects.
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