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Network traffic analysis: A brief report on significant network performance monitoring avenue

Most corporate IT landscapes have a variety of traffic types involved, like cloud, web, and video. With network endpoints interconnected, the performance and risk of handling these traffic types can also increase. Although major solutions can detect threats with predefined signatures, detecting newer attacks requires focusing on communications such as those from API or SaaS applications.

How to Protect your IT Ops from Cloud Outages

Over the past few months, I’ve written a couple of blogs analyzing significant Azure outages that affected multiple services. These articles covered detecting cloud outages long before Microsoft confirmed them and provided details of symptoms we saw. You can read these articles about a September 2022 outage and another in January 2023.

The Evolution of Network Visibility

As modern work has evolved, so too has the network end users rely on to do their jobs. Today’s network is vastly different from the networks of just a few years ago, with the new last mile of the office network evolving to cover anywhere end users are. This has had a significant impact on the visibility IT professionals have in the office network, and it means we need to revisit what network visibility really means as modern work continues to evolve.

Serverless Days ANZ 2023 Recap

When a tech community comes together, great things happen and Serverless Days ANZ 2023 was no exception. As soon as you checked-in, you could feel the community spirit, buzz and excitement that comes with an event like this. It’s been four years since the last Serverless Days ANZ was able to run IRL (In real life), and the local serverless community had been eagerly waiting for its return.

Predictions: a Deeper Dive into the Rise of the Machines

As Gaurav described in his retail predictions blog, the impact of AI and automation on the retail industry should not be underestimated. The compound effects of improvements in technology and labour shortages have created an ideal scenario for innovation. Here we will take a deeper look into some of the AI and automation use cases that we have seen in retail and outline some of the areas of focus to help you get started.

From Kubernetes Out Of Kubernetes Observability and Shifting left chaos testing

From Kubernetes Out Of Kubernetes Observability (45m) Description: Now that the industry is moving towards extending Kubernetes to manage more and more of the infrastructure, services, and applications running outside Kubernetes itself, it is becoming obvious that we need to have a holistic view of the entire system. We need control planes that will provide not only management but also observability to the whole system. This talk will discuss the concepts of control planes and data planes, how they are used to manage the lifecycle of infrastructure, applications, and services, and how we can apply observability to such resources.

Top 20 Synthetic Monitoring Tools

Synthetic monitoring is a means to monitor applications, pages, APIs, etc., from the user’s perspective so you can best understand how they perform for actual users. IT professionals use synthetic monitoring to run simple uptime checks and to monitor complex, mission-critical business transactions. Synthetic monitoring tools also allow you to test and monitor third-party applications, which can impact how your users experience your websites and web applications.

Today's Enterprise WAN Isn't What It Used To Be

For most enterprise NetOps teams, a discussion about the WAN is a discussion about the cloud. Whether it’s as simple as ensuring solid connectivity with a SaaS provider or designing a robust, secure, hybrid, and multi-cloud architecture, the enterprise wide area network is all about connecting us to our resources, wherever they are.