Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Unplanned downtime carries a hefty price tag for enterprises. In 2020, critical server outages cost enterprises on average at least $10,000 per hour, with 95% of respondents stating that the cost was $200,000 per hour or more. 40% said that the average cost was closer to $1 million per hour, and 17% lost $5 million or more for every hour offline. Those are some sobering statistics that demonstrate the importance of being prepared for the worst. But you’re thinking, “We back up everything!

Load balancing is an indispensable technique for improving a website’s performance. I’ll explain why. With Firefox’s Web Developer Tools open, I visited a popular retailer’s website to see how many HTTP requests my browser made when loading the site. In this case, I counted 119 requests needed to render the landing page.

2022, the world is the technological paradise you always dreamed of. Space mining, smart cities, 3D printers to make your own Darth Vader mask… Just a little problem, society is based on digitization and communications and you have no idea about the visibility of distributed networks. Something of vital importance considering the rise of cybercrime. Well, don’t worry, we’ll help you.

Human operators utilizing traditional network monitoring software with methods like SNMP, ping, or flow tracking are still limited to diagnosis and triage issues within the four walls of the on-premise data center. But with increased adoption of cloud, SD-WAN and “work from anywhere,” application workloads are getting more distributed and creating network monitoring visibility gaps.