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What is Network Throughput: From Bytes to Blazing Speed

As network admins and IT specialists, you bear the crucial responsibility of optimizing network performance, ensuring the seamless flow of information. Network throughput lies at the heart of this endeavour, serving as a key performance metric that measures the amount of data transmitted within a given timeframe. Consider network throughput as the pulse of your network—the indicator of its vitality and efficiency.

8 Common Uses of VPN in 2023: How People Leverage Its Benefits

Explores the capabilities of a virtual private network (VPN) - a versatile tool that is surprisingly user-friendly. Whether it's for individuals or businesses, VPNs offer a multitude of advantages. Users can securely navigate activities such as traveling, using public Wi-Fi, sharing sensitive information, and unlocking entertainment options on Netflix, all with the assistance of a VPN. This comprehensive guide provides valuable insights into effective VPN usage and highlights the numerous benefits it offers. It caters to personal and corporate scenarios alike.

How Kentik reduces the likelihood of a full-blown cyber-attack before it happens

Organizations are under constant attack, and it’s critical to reduce the time it takes to detect attacks to minimize their cost. This first article in our new security series dives deep into how Kentik helps customers before, during, and after a cyber attack.

Your Starter Guide to Using the HAProxy Lua Event Framework

In this article, we’ll take you on a quick tour of the new Lua event framework shipped with HAProxy 2.8—plus demonstrate how Lua helps you further customize HAProxy’s behavior. We’ll start with a brief, high-level overview of Lua and how HAProxy uses it. Next, we’ll introduce you to the Lua event framework, show you what you can do with it, and familiarize you with its mechanics.

SD-WAN Monitoring: Why Edge-to-Edge Coverage Isn't Enough

In recent years, network operations teams have had to contend with several critical challenges, including: In response to these challenges, teams are increasingly turning to SD-WAN. The market for SD-WAN is massive, and continuing to grow, potentially reaching $47 billion by 2031. Through SD-WAN technologies, organizations are able to realize a number of benefits. However, these benefits aren’t a sure thing. In fact, many teams encounter challenges with their SD-WAN implementations.

Putting the Network in Observability

With the accelerating use of DevOps and cloud-native infrastructure, observability is all the rage. Organizations, large and small, are doing their best to make sense of the logs, metrics and traces generated by their applications to identify performance and availability issues. But what about the network? It seems that many organizations forgot that network telemetry has always been the foundation of any monitoring initiative relating to performance, security, or availability. In this Techstrong Learning Experience, Techstrong Research GM Mike Rothman is joined by Phil Gervasi and Rosalind Whitley from Kentik to discuss how network observability adds depth and context to any APM or security analysis environment. Mike also highlights data from a recent network observability survey done by Techstrong Research. In this learning experience, you’ll learn.

Network visibility makes all the difference! The key to Managed Service Providers to protecting your customer data

In a world where technology is ubiquitous, network security is of paramount importance. Every day that goes by, cybercrime evolves and becomes more sophisticated. They improve the materials of their balaclavas and spend more on incognito sunglasses. In 2015, the damage caused by cybercrime already cost the world 3 trillion dollars, since then the figure has only multiplied. No wonder companies are looking for ways to protect themselves against cyberattacks, don’t you think?

What is Network Traffic Analysis?

How much network traffic is received by a business in the United States on average? More specifically, how many gigabytes do you think it is? The numbers may surprise you. According to Statista, the average traffic received was nearly 200 BILLION gigabytes (178.21 billion GB). And it is expected to grow to 224.08 in 2023. Another interesting statistic involving traffic, with numbers provided by Broadband Search, is that users in America generate 3.1 million GBs per minute every minute.