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Internet 101: A Complete Guide and Explanation of the Internet

The internet is inherently complex, and it can be difficult to understand all the various moving parts that make it work. But that doesn't mean you can learn a little more about what makes the World Wide Web tick. In this article, you'll learn what the internet is, how it's structured, and how information flows across the web.

Being Secure When Moving to the Cloud - N-able Chief Security Officer David MacKinnon - Empower 2022

When it comes to cloud adoption, the analogy Dave MacKinnon always use is that our networks used to be built like castles. We put all our servers and users inside, and we had big walls to protect everything. Today, we’ve shifted large parts of our businesses outside of these walls, and moved them to various cloud and SaaS providers. As a result, we no longer always have the knowledge or expertise to secure and protect them. So, a core part of the journey towards owning the cloud is understanding what you can do to help your customers secure all those bits that now lie outside the castle walls.

Playing to Win in the Cloud - Mike Adler Empower 2022 Keynote

Playing to Win in the Cloud—During this keynote, Mike Adler (N-able’s CTPO) shares how to play a winning hand in the cloud, sharing information about the best practices, success stories, and N-able’s roadmap to help all of our partners deal themselves a winning hand when it comes to managing, monitoring, and protecting cloud assets. Joining him on stage, Stefan Voss, Laura DuBois and Subo Guha have demos of products and a look into the product roadmap.

Everything You Need to Know About Synthetic Testing

Part two of a three-part guide to assuring performance and availability of critical cloud services across public and hybrid clouds and the internet Monitoring your user traffic is critical for knowing the quality of the digital experience you are delivering, but what about the performance of new cloud or container deployments, expected new users in a new region, or new web pages or applications that don’t have established traffic? This is where synthetic testing can be invaluable.

Using Kentik Synthetics for Your Cloud Monitoring Needs

The final post of a three-part guide to assuring performance and availability of critical cloud services across public and hybrid clouds and the internet Kentik Synthetics adds integrated, autonomous, pervasive performance test telemetry to our market-leading network traffic analytics and observability platform, the Kentik Network Observability Platform. For modern clouds, proactive synthetic monitoring can no longer be delivered as a standalone tool.