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What do you get when you combine the full power of the network with market-leading security and observability solutions? More customer value and an amazing partner ecosystem. It’s official! Today, with the closing of the acquisition, Splunk became part of Cisco. We’re looking forward to this exciting new chapter of our journey together – and it couldn’t have come at a better time.

In this blog post, we'll dive into the critical role of application observability in maintaining optimal performance and uptime. We'll explore how it works, why it's essential, and how it transforms challenges into opportunities for growth and improvement. So, if you're looking to elevate your application's performance and reliability to new heights, you're in the right place.

Every click, search, and download leaves a trace. Scary, right? Or do you not think about it until you’re part of a data leak? It’s probably the second one. Yet, our digital footprint is something we should all focus on. In 2023, IT Governance studies showed 8,214,886,660 records of data breaches. And that’s only the ones logged on record. There will be more than that. It’s called cyber hygiene, and data removal is one essential part of it if you spend your days online.

Today, many companies generate and store huge amounts of data. To give you an idea, decades ago, the size of the Internet was measured in Terabytes (TB) and now it is measured in Zettabytes (ZB). Relational databases were designed to meet the storage and information management needs of the time. Today we have a new scenario where social networks, IoT devices and Edge Computing generate millions of unstructured and highly variable data.

As organizations embrace distributed work environments and cloud-based applications, the need for secure, agile, and high-performing networks has never been more pressing. That’s where SASE comes in! Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) networks converge networking and security functions into a unified cloud-native platform, making them extremely popular for large enterprises nowadays.

Data is born at the edge, and the traditional approach is to collect it, then ingest it into one or more systems of analysis — or at least as much as you can afford to. And now the deep dive analysis begins. This might be the perfect solution for some datasets, but what about all the other data being collected on the edge? All the logs, metrics, and state information you seldom (if ever) retrieve?

Near Lausanne, at the heart of the Swiss Alps where innovation meets tradition, Nexthink is developing a ground-breaking proactive IT solution. Founded in the early 2000s at EFPL’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Nexthink opened its first offices at Lausanne and quickly gained global recognition for its efforts to optimize IT based on the user perspective and to proactively enhance the IT experience – and the working life – of workforces everywhere.

Hybrid work models have taken center stage as the new norm for global enterprises, and Microsoft Teams has become the leading collaboration platform to keep hybrid and remote teams connected and collaborating. However, as return to office has grown, the Teams user experience in the office hasn’t been as solid as it was for many employees at home, with friction in the user experience resulting from in-office network constraints.

The managed service provider (MSP) model delivers tremendous value for clients. They benefit from expertise and implementation that would be difficult and cost-prohibitive to build and manage themselves. The MSPs take on those responsibilities, which means they are on the hook for delivering the services to their clients in an effective and efficient manner.