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Optical Networking / DWDM Basics

Dec 15, 2020 By Ribbon In Ribbon
Optical networking delivers the distance, bandwidth scalability, resiliency, and manageability that broadband networks require. You're invited to a special session from Ribbon on Tuesday, December 15th where we will review optical networking technology and basics and explain how optical networks solve reachability, survivability, bandwidth growth, and maintenance challenges for broadband services. What problems do optical networks solve? What are the major piece parts and important vocabulary? What do I have to think about when deploying? Any cool stuff on the market I should be aware of?
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A Look Back At Console Connect In 2020

Dec 14, 2020 By Alex Hawkes In Console Connect
2020 has been a year of challenge and change for the world. The global pandemic has accelerated the pace of technological change for businesses around the world, leading to a shift in working patterns and prompting the move to a more virtual workforce. For Console Connect, it has been a year of significant growth.
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Auvik + ConnectWise: An Integrated Approach to Greater Network Visibility & Faster MTTR

Dec 14, 2020 By Auvik In Auvik
Network management shouldn’t be an unmanageable—or unprofitable—task. Discover how Auvik integrates with ConnectWise to give you true network visibility and control, from one centralized view. It’s designed to streamline your workflows and help you close tickets faster, so you can scale your operations.
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What You Can Learn From the 2020 Network Vendor Diversity Report

Dec 14, 2020 By Auvik In Auvik
In our third year of producing the Network Vendor Diversity Report, we’ve learned the network hardware market is becoming more crowded and fragmented as time goes on. Nearly two-thirds of all IT service providers are managing more than five network vendors per client. Cisco still maintains its reign as the most commonly deployed vendor on today’s managed networks, but its share continues to decline as vendors like Ubiquiti chip away at its lead.
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Securing Your Expanding Network Perimeter

Dec 14, 2020 By Brandon Shopp In SolarWinds
Cybersecurity attacks, such as ransomware and phishing scams, have delivered crippling IT blows in the public sector for some time. And here’s the bad news—these attacks have proliferated in the days of COVID-19. A new report from Google found a 350% increase in phishing attacks since the beginning of the year. To better defend against today’s cyberattacks, state and local governments are increasingly exploring the benefits of software-defined networking (SDN).
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Monitor Windows hosts with Network Performance Monitoring

Dec 11, 2020 By Yael Goldstein In Datadog

If you’re running a mix of Windows– and Linux–based hosts in hybrid or cloud environments, network monitoring is especially important—and especially difficult. As network topologies are becoming increasingly distributed and dynamic, you need a quick way to identify connectivity issues across regions, services, and operating systems.

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Bridging Visibility Gaps in Hybrid Cloud Monitoring

Dec 11, 2020 By Flowmon In Flowmon

When cloud adoption shifts from a new trend to daily reality, it causes headaches to everyone responsible for the performance, availability, and security of business services or apps. How do you monitor owned and rented infrastructure with all of their differences without creating visibility silos and ending-up with a bunch of disparate tools?

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HAProxy Enterprise Support Helps Ring Up Holiday Online Sales

Dec 11, 2020 By Chad Lavoie In HAProxy

With the second wave of coronavirus sweeping across the nation, experts predict a greater percentage of this year’s holiday shopping to be conducted online than ever before. In fact, a recent National Retail Federation Holiday 2020 survey predicts that “digital purchases will be the primary driver of growth this year” with 96% of respondents expecting more online-only holiday sales as consumers are less likely to visit actual stores.

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Enhance and automate your cybersecurity operations

Dec 11, 2020 By Flowmon In Flowmon
Watch Keysight and Flowmon present a cybersecurity solution reaching into the layer one transmission and utilizing behavior analysis to identify a hacker’s fingerprint.  Keysight will give a high level explanation on how to build an efficient visibility architecture utilizing Taps and Network Packet Brokers. Keysight will then provide an introduction to Threat simulator, a breach and attack simulation platform, which will be used in the demonstration to provide realistic attack traffic to the Flowmon. 
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Modern Dashboards on the Orion Platform - SolarWinds Lab #93

Dec 10, 2020 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Turning data into information and information into decisions are some of the most common challenges facing any monitoring professional. A clean, easy-to-interpret dashboard can go a long way in turning those raw numbers into actionable decisions. In this heavily requested follow-up episode, Kevin M. Sparenberg, technical content manager for THWACK®, presents a step-by-step build for modern dashboards.
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