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Objectively Gauging User Experience with Apdex and AppNeta

In today’s digital environments, slow is the new down. As users continue to grow increasingly accustomed to rapid response—and less willing to wait—slow application performance continues to be highly problematic for organizations. While downtime of major services can make headlines, it is more often slow performance that hurts businesses, ultimately stifling productivity and profits.

Mastering Enterprise Network Complexity with Advanced Visualization Techniques

The landscape of enterprise networking has undergone tremendous change in recent years. Widespread adoption of software-defined networking (SDN), the proliferation of multi-cloud environments, the rise of edge computing, and the implementation of zero-trust security models have collectively reshaped network architectures. While these trends bring unprecedented flexibility and scalability, they have also exponentially increased complexity.

BT Ireland Reduced Alarm Noise with DX NetOps: Here's How

For today’s enterprises, there’s no good time for network downtime. In this post, we detail how DX NetOps by Broadcom provides advanced capabilities that help teams minimize outage incidents and duration. We then offer an example of how these capabilities benefited a leading telecommunications provider in the UK, fueling an 80% reduction in alarm noise and a 40% decrease in mean time to resolution.

Gaining End-to-End Network Observability in a Multi-Cloud World

In a relatively short period of time, networks have grown much bigger, much more complex, and much more critical to the ongoing operation of the business. Quite simply, while ensuring optimized network services has never been more critical, it’s also never been more difficult. In many large enterprises, network operations teams are seeing tens of thousands of endpoints added to already complex internal environments.

How to Optimize MPLS Network Monitoring to Improve Performance and SLAs

In the IT infrastructure serving increasingly digitized enterprises, the criticality of network quality of service is more than evident to ensure connectivity to everyone at any time. System and network administrators need to understand which technology enables efficient, reliable, and lowest latency data transmission between IT applications and services.

Laptops, Desktops, and Data-Oh My! Cribl Edge Has You Covered

As organizations continue to become more reliant on distributed and hybrid workforces, the need for comprehensive data collection across every endpoint—servers, applications, desktops, and laptops—has never been more critical. But let’s be real: agents can be a total headache. That’s where Cribl Edge comes in, now with support for desktops and laptops (in preview)!

What is Enterprise DORA Metrics (in 2 minutes)

Seeing snippets of DORA Metrics across all of your products doesn't give you the big picture. Imagine if you had 50 products and you're stitching metrics together to make a conclusion of how well the organization is performing as a whole. That's inefficient, inaccurate and a time consuming task that doesn't give leadership the real-time view it needs to make quick decisions. Introducing something you've never seen before: Real-Time Enterprise DORA Metrics.

Networking Basics: OSPF Protocol Explained

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a standard routing protocol that’s been used the world over for many years. Supported by practically every routing vendor, as well as the open source community, OSPF is one of the few protocols in the IT industry you can count on being available just about anywhere you might need it. Enterprise networks that outgrow a single site will often use OSPF to interconnect their campuses and wide area networks (WANs).