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We are thrilled to share the latest updates and enhancements to Employee Engagement! At Nexthink, we continue to invest, innovate, and lead the way in facilitating two-way communication between IT and employees, powering self-help and direct communication for any of IT’s pressing needs. In this blog post, we’ll dive into five exciting new features and improvements that foster better communication, drive effective campaigns and engagement, and enhance employee satisfaction overall.

While log parsing isn’t very sexy and never gets much credit, it is fundamental to productive and centralized log analysis. Log parsing extracts information in your logs and organizes them into fields. Without well-structured fields in your logs, searching and visualizing your log data is near impossible.

Cloud network reliability has become a catch-all for four related concerns: availability, resiliency, durability, and security. In this post, we’ll discuss why NetOps plays an integral role in delivering on the promise of reliability.

Administrators and IT management are increasingly leveraging simple quantifiable KPI indicators such as “Performance Ratings” to gain rapid overviews and track key outcomes. Modern IT architectures are designed and built to scale and be resilient. Systems are now usually built to handle failover and auto-scale up and down to handle varying demand and workloads with very different properties and needs.

The Grafana k6 browser module simulates how users interact with a browser page and collects web performance metrics about the interaction. Since launching the module in 2021, we’re frequently asked how it compares to Google Lighthouse as a tool to measure web page performance. This blog post compares k6 browser and Google Lighthouse from various perspectives, including: Note: k6 browser is a part of Grafana k6 OSS.

As N-able Head Nerds we are continually looking for ways our partners can better support their end-users. So it’s hugely beneficial for us to visit with our partners when we can to see all the different approaches they take in supporting their customers. On a recent trip to South Africa, Marc-Andre Tanguay visited First Technology KZN in Durban. Whilst there the team showed Marc-Andre the custom BSOD monitor they had built to detect if a machine had suffered the dreaded Blue Screen of Death.

On May 31st, Catchpoint hosted a webinar to launch our Perigrine and Eagle releases, packed with new product features and enhancements that make our Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) Platform even more powerful.

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.

You have probably seen (or even been to) your company's data center. If not, chances are you have looked at photos of one from a major company like Facebook or Google. Why bring this up? Because when some folks think about the word 'database,' images of rows upon rows of servers holding data come to mind. Others think of the cloud, with zettabytes of data stored in rows, columns and tables.