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Network Performance Monitoring

Your applications and infrastructure components rely on one another in an increasingly complex fabric, regardless of whether you run a monolithic application or microservices, and whether you deploy to cloud infrastructure, private data centers, or both. Virtualized infrastructure enables developers to respond to arbitrary scale—and creates dynamic network patterns that aren’t well matched to traditional network monitoring tools. To provide visibility into every component in your environment, and all the connections between them, Datadog is introducing Network Performance Monitoring for the cloud age. Miranda Kapin of Datadog tells you more.

Console Connect by PCCW Global Case Study | Hong Kong Tourism Board

Console Connect by PCCW Global is dedicated to helping broadcasting organisations overcome the barriers and complexity of connecting their business critical applications. See how we enabled Hong Kong Tourism Board to scale up and down on-demand easily and how the benefits of Console Connect allowed them to attract the best talent and increase an ever wider audience. VR and higher resolutions mean more bandwidth and lower latency for the wider ecosystem of broadcasters and streaming organizations and Console Connect is here to support you.

Network Throttling: Monitor the User Experience

When it comes to monitoring web application performance, not only is it necessary emulate user actions, but also network conditions of end-user devices. Network throttling allows you to control connection speeds to better match the experience of real users, allowing you to see web application behavior in specific network conditions. Network connections can vary for many reasons. User location, device type, and browser used are just a few factors that can affect a user’s experience.

Network Throttling: Monitor the User Experience

When it comes to monitoring web application performance, not only is it necessary emulate user actions, but also network conditions of end-user devices. Network throttling allows you to control connection speeds to better match the experience of real users, allowing you to see web application behavior in specific network conditions. Network connections can vary for many reasons. User location, device type, and browser used are just a few factors that can affect a user’s experience.

All the Truth About a Virtual Private Network / VPN

These days, it is quite hard to find a person who does not use the Internet. Even older people have already got a web connection for communication and mastering the most popular apps. This makes the Net such a useful tool. However, certain dangers lay under this cross-functionality that can be avoided using Virtual Private Networks or VPNs for short.

What is File Transfer Protocol (FTP)?

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4 Key Takeaways From the 2019 Managing Network Vendor Diversity Report

In 2018, we released the inaugural Managing Network Vendor Diversity Report, where we discovered that MSPs face a serious challenge: There’s high vendor diversity in the network hardware they operate. In the short year since then, the managed services industry has experienced a lot of change: tech trends are evolving, new products are being released, and client expectations are growing. So what was true in 2018 might not be any longer.