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Office 365 Monitoring: The Challenges, and What to Do About Them

Office 365 is used by more than one million companies around the world. Business employees count on these apps constantly to do their jobs, whether they’re writing documents, updating spreadsheets, building slides, or checking email. While cloud-based apps like Office 365 offer undeniable advantages for enterprises and business users, they also create tough challenges for IT operations and network operations (NetOps) teams.

How To Enable QUIC Load Balancing on HAProxy

HTTP/3 is the latest generation of the HTTP protocol, and its ability to serve applications over QUIC offers several advantages for user experience, including reduced latency, improved reliability, and faster page loading as a result of fixing the head-of-line blocking issue in previous versions of HTTP. Both HAProxy and HAProxy Enterprise offer support for using HTTP/3 over QUIC, although the steps for enabling QUIC in HAProxy and HAProxy Enterprise are different.

What is NetFlow Analyzer?

In today’s interconnected world, network administrators face the daunting task of managing and securing complex networks. To effectively monitor network traffic and optimize performance, they require comprehensive insights into the data flows within their infrastructure. NetFlow Analyzer is an analytics tool that monitors network traffic flow. It leverages the ability of flow technologies to offer visibility in real time.

Understanding the network edge and edge networking

Generally speaking, a network ‘edge’ is the boundary between two separate networks - where one network ends and another begins. Edges are important, primarily from a security standpoint as they define the jurisdictions owned by different parties, and ‘the edge’ has become a more popular topic of conversation recently through trends which see network resources moved from centralised locations to network edges to make them closer to the end user.

Mindset of an MSP considering M&A

Perry Bowles, technical director for Ziptech Services, shares his story of starting and scaling an MSP. Bowles tells of a conversation that led to a meeting with a total stranger turned business partner nearly 20 years ago. 'Now that's it: Stories of MSP Success,' dives into the journeys of some of the trailblazers in our industry to find out how they used their passion for technology to help turn Managed Services into the thriving sector it is today.

Challenges of Starting an MSP

Perry Bowles, technical director for Ziptech Services, shares his story of starting and scaling an MSP. Bowles tells of a conversation that led to a meeting with a total stranger turned business partner nearly 20 years ago. 'Now that's it: Stories of MSP Success,' dives into the journeys of some of the trailblazers in our industry to find out how they used their passion for technology to help turn Managed Services into the thriving sector it is today.

Ask Me Anything: WhatsUp Gold Performance Monitors Webinar

WhatsUp Gold includes three types of monitors: active, passive and performance. Performance monitors are extremely helpful for proactively preventing potential problems, such as disk space running low or memory usage running higher than expected. Watch this webinar to learn best practices for creating and using performance monitors.

16 Best Network Testing Tools for Optimal Performance

Explore an impartial compilation of the leading network testing tools, where the prominence of smaller companies isn't overshadowed by promotions or exorbitant prices. Our all-encompassing guide encompasses every key player in the industry, guaranteeing an equitable comparison tailored to your IT requirements, devoid of financial influence. Familiar with network testing tools and solely interested in our comprehensive list?

What Are SDN and NFV, and Are They Related?

SDN and NFV are acronyms you hear frequently in discussions of modern networking. In fact, they appear so commonly that they can be easy to confuse or conflate with one another. But that would be a mistake. SDN and NFV are related terms, but they are also distinct. You can use SDN without using NFV, and the benefits of NFV are not the same as the benefits of SDN in general. Keep reading for a breakdown of what SDN and NFV have to do with each other, and what to use when.