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How DX NetOps by Broadcom Software Helps Enterprises Deliver Reliable Digital Services

Tim Diep, Head of Network Operations Solutions at Broadcom discusses the current challenges with deploying and managing new software-defined network architectures and the need for SDN-enabled network observability solutions in order to realize the full investments of your modern network deployments. For more info, visit broadcom.com/netops

Dashboard Fridays: Sample Excel Business KPIs Dashboard

The Management Team at SquaredUp needed a dashboard to visualise key metrics related to the different sectors of business to keep an eye on the KPIs and track targets. This dashboard keeps track of the different key targets set for the business over three time periods and highlights variations. The dashboard also plots the trend on different values hit over the time and helps identify fluctuations.

Monitor CDN performance within your Synthetic tests

Content delivery networks (CDNs) reduce latency by delivering cached data (e.g., JavaScript files, stylesheets, images, and videos) from a network of linked proxy servers to end users around the globe. CDNs help reduce the load on your origin servers and shorten the distance that data needs to travel, thus improving the end-user experience.

Elevate AWS threat detection with Stratus Red Team

A core challenge for threat detection engineering is reproducing common attacker behavior. Several open source and commercial projects exist for traditional endpoint and on-premise security, but there is a clear need for a cloud-native tool built with cloud providers and infrastructure in mind. To meet this growing demand, we’re happy to announce Stratus Red Team, an open source project created to emulate common attack techniques directly in your cloud environment.

Top 5 challenges in Ethernet monitoring and how to simplify them with OpManager

An Ethernet connection helps businesses with critical communication, and even a slight interruption can irritate users or result in costly downtime. On top of this, the larger the network, the more complex the Ethernet network becomes.

GripMatix Citrix MP most used SCOM 3rd-party Management Pack for Citrix

The Big SCOM Survey 2021 results are available and we are happy to see that at organizations the use of SCOM is still expected to grow according to more than half of the respondents. It is a survey executed by SCOMathon. But above all, our Citrix Ready Management Pack solution for monitoring Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops scored as second-most used 3rd-party Management Pack of all 3rd-party Management Packs out there.

Techstrong Predict 2022: Future of Observability

In a customer-centric world, observability is mission-critical for delivering great digital experiences. Join the "The Future of Observability" panel discussion to learn: What drivers create the need for observability What steps you should take to reach your observability goals What elements are necessary for an effective observability strategy What the future of observability looks like Panelist: Mitch Ashley - Techstrong Research Lodewijk Bogaards - StackState Brian Dawson - Dawson and Dawson, Inc. Cyrille Le Clerc - Elastic

"What's in it for us?": Putting Users in the Driver's Seat of VDI w/ VMware

Back in 2007, when the VMware team was outlining the benefits of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), our presentations included a very specific use case: “global pandemic”. No, we didn’t have a crystal ball through which we could foresee the COVID crisis, more than a decade in advance. But even back then, we were looking at the security benefits of VDI, if global health crisis did suddenly force workforces to go remote.

Talent Shortage 2022: Stretching Your Lean DevSecOps Team

The cybersecurity talent shortage is real. As of December 2021, a job-tracking database from the U.S. Commerce Department showed nearly 600,000 unfilled cybersecurity positions. And a 2021 study found that 57% of cybersecurity professionals worked at organizations that have been directly impacted by the cybersecurity talent shortage. Even so, many organizations want to “shift security left” or build security best practices earlier into the software development lifecycle (SDLC).