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Five Network Considerations For Remote Working

Many businesses put temporary measures in place last year to support remote working. With the shift to remote working appearing more long-term, businesses are now starting to think more strategically about how their networks can support a virtual workforce. Here we look at five network considerations to support your virtual workforce…

Coffee & Containers - Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower

We are very proud to launch this series with Kelsey Hightower, Thought Leader and Developer Advocate at Google Cloud Platform, and Bruno Andrade, Founder and CEO of Shipa.io. The topic of the conversation was focused on the current state of Kubernetes, and concluded with an "unboxing" and Kelsey's live/unfiltered impressions on the Shipa application management framework for Kubernetes.

Monitor datacenters and network devices with Datadog

Modern datacenters can contain thousands of network appliances, such as routers, switches, firewalls, and servers, so it’s important for your monitoring strategy to provide comprehensive visibility into every piece of your infrastructure. Datadog Network Device Monitoring already allows you to collect a wealth of telemetry from all of your SNMP-managed devices, which are automatically discovered by the Datadog Agent.

Datadog NPM now supports Istio networking

Istio is an open source service mesh that provides an abstraction layer for network traffic between applications, so you can run canary deployments, implement circuit breakers, and otherwise manage the architecture of your network using high-level configuration files. As service meshes become increasingly popular among containerized environments, dev and ops teams need to ensure that Istio is healthy, performant, and routing traffic as intended to keep their network infrastructure running smoothly.

Ribbon Rural Solutions

Ribbon is Ready to Help with Rural Broadband RDOF Funding? Secure & Trusted Act? COVID-19 Relief? Whatever the case, Ribbon is Ready. Ribbon has over 30 years of experience working with regional operators helping deploy rural services and much more. We can help you not only deliver the latest services your customers need but do so efficiently, effectively, and get you the most return on your time and monetary investments.

Monitoring as code with Sensu Go 6

A comprehensive CI/CD initiative should include monitoring and observability. Monitoring as code incorporates the active monitoring of the infrastructure under management, creating a symbiotic relationship in which new metrics and failures are collected and detected automatically in response to code changes and new deployments. Monitoring as code is the key to this unified view of the world and management of the entire application lifecycle.