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Many businesses put temporary measures in place last year to support remote working. With the shift to remote working appearing more long-term, businesses are now starting to think more strategically about how their networks can support a virtual workforce. Here we look at five network considerations to support your virtual workforce…

Modern datacenters can contain thousands of network appliances, such as routers, switches, firewalls, and servers, so it’s important for your monitoring strategy to provide comprehensive visibility into every piece of your infrastructure. Datadog Network Device Monitoring already allows you to collect a wealth of telemetry from all of your SNMP-managed devices, which are automatically discovered by the Datadog Agent.

The HAProxy Data Plane API 2.2 lays the foundation for first-class service discovery and introduces native support for Consul. It also adds storage and file handling for SSL certificates, Map files, and SPOE configuration files.

We recently took a look at some of the repercussions of the global pandemic and how it has caused a dramatic shift in the way we work. In the second instalment of our predictions for 2021, we explore some of the longer term trends that will be top of mind for enterprises this year…

IT software technology is advancing at a rapid pace, with the internet of things, cloud, automation, and machine learning making networks and network management activities more complex and interdependent. As networks grow and become more complicated, it’s increasingly important for administrators to have access to the tools necessary to conduct essential network monitoring and management operations. One such tool is a network mapper, also known as a network topology mapper.

To help users troubleshoot intermittent network issues anywhere along their network, Obkio created Triggered Traceroutes. Triggered Traceroutes are a unique type of traceroute that is only triggered when a network event occurs.

With HAProxy, you can implement a circuit breaker to protect services from widespread failure. Martin Fowler, who is famous for being one of the Gang of Four authors who wrote Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, hosts a website where he catalogues software design patterns. He defines the Circuit Breaker pattern like this: The basic idea behind the circuit breaker is very simple. You wrap a protected function call in a circuit breaker object, which monitors for failures.