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Kentik

7 Real Ways to Modernize NetOps with Kentik AI Advisor

Mar 4, 2026 By Eric Hian-Cheong In Kentik
Kentik’s AI Advisor acts as a virtual network engineer, helping teams of all skill levels troubleshoot, manage, and optimize their infrastructure with unprecedented speed and context. We explore seven practical NetOps use cases, from rapid incident triage and capacity planning to upcoming live-device command support, that demonstrate how using AI as a collaborative teammate dramatically reduces manual investigative work.
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megaport

How to Lower Your Egress Fees in 2026

Mar 4, 2026 By Dan Pfyl In Megaport
Egress fees can quietly drive cloud costs. Learn practical ways to reduce your cloud egress fees in 2026 without redesigning everything. Cloud egress fees can sneak up on you. One month your cloud bill can look reasonable, and the next it’s clear that data movement is causing your cloud spend to fluctuate. For many network teams, egress is still treated as a fixed cost or something you only revisit during a major architecture change, but that approach doesn’t hold up in 2026.
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megaport

How to Achieve Data Sovereignty in Europe

Mar 3, 2026 By Emmanuel Sevray In Megaport
European organizations are facing growing data sovereignty demands. Discover options, benefits, and best practices for keeping your data local. Across Europe, organizations are rethinking how they manage their data. The reasons for this push are multi-layered. The U.S. Government’s approach to data privacy often contrasts with Europe’s generally tighter regulations – but recent geopolitical and regulatory shifts in the U.S.
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4 Best Enterprise VPN Solutions 2026 Review: Secure Remote Access Tools Compared

4 Best Enterprise VPN Solutions 2026 Review: Secure Remote Access Tools Compared

Mar 3, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Remote work isn't slowing down, and attackers know it. Sixty percent of breaches now begin with stolen remote-access credentials, costing businesses an average $4.45 million. The antidote is an enterprise VPN built for today's always-online workforce. This guide compares four proven platforms-from a privacy-first, no-logs service to Cisco's global heavyweight-so you can line up encryption strength, admin simplicity, and budget with your risk profile. A side-by-side table, plain-English reviews, and a quick decision cheatsheet will help you pick the right fit in minutes.
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ribbon

The Strategic Shift to Managed Optical Fiber Networks (MOFN)

Mar 1, 2026 By Mitch Simcoe In Ribbon
As digital transformation accelerates, the underlying infrastructure supporting your enterprise or service provider network faces unprecedented pressure. The exponential growth of data, driven by cloud computing, 5G, and particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI), demands a fundamental rethink of how you approach connectivity.
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obkio

8 Years of Building Obkio: From Network Monitoring to Observability & Network Diagnostics

Feb 27, 2026 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
In 2016, Obkio was just an idea, but it was an idea born from a real problem. Before writing a single line of code, we conducted a market audit to understand why Network Performance Monitoring solutions weren't more mature. We interviewed banks, manufacturing companies, and service providers, and the answer was unanimous: the NPM tools on the market were too complex, and most businesses simply didn't have the internal resources to dedicate full-time to managing them.
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haproxy

Securing 80,000 transactions per second at Infobip with HAProxy Enterprise WAF

Feb 27, 2026 By Daniel Skrba In HAProxy
The average cost of a security breach reached nearly $4.4 million in 2025, according to the publication Cost of Data Breach Report. To proactively address this substantial financial and security risk, Infobip, a global cloud communications platform, used HAProxy Enterprise to implement a security and uptime framework that is both highly modular and highly performant.
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