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Introducing Megaport High-Speed Cross-Cloud Encryption

Secure cloud traffic at line rate, without slowing your workloads down, thanks to Megaport’s new encryption solution. Securing data in motion is often a trade-off between performance and privacy, but most traditional encryption models struggle to find this balance – especially when you’re moving large volumes of data between clouds or across regions.

Complexity to Clarity: Why Enterprises Are Choosing Progress WhatsUp Gold Over SolarWinds

A clearer path for enterprise administrators with simpler deployment, unified visibility and predictable costs. If SolarWinds feels too complex, costly or rigid to scale, it might be time to look for a new network monitoring solution. In this session, Progress WhatsUp Gold experts help enterprise admins achieve unified visibility and faster time to value without module or architecture sprawl, using transparent device-based licensing.

Monitor Fortinet FortiManager performance in Datadog

As enterprises scale, teams often find it harder to identify user-reported issues. Software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) can make it easier to add branch offices, but they can also make it more challenging to distinguish connectivity degradation from changes in application behavior. FortiManager provides a centralized control plane for Fortinet Secure SD-WAN and reduces operational complexity.

How to Prepare Your Network for RTO (Return-to-Office Mandates)

IT teams are being held hostage in the return-to-office debate. They didn't even get a seat at the table. And if you're not at the table, you're on the menu. The job market has cooled dramatically. Canada's unemployment rate hit 7.1% in August 2025, which is the highest since May 2016, excluding pandemic years. Employers noticed. And the RTO mandates started rolling out fast: The debate is heating up. Employees don't want to give up remote work. Executives want people in the office seats.

What is RDMA?

Modern data centres are hitting a wall that faster CPUs alone cannot fix. As workloads scale out and latency budgets shrink, the impact of moving data between servers is starting to become the most significant factor in overall performance. Remote Direct Memory Access, or RDMA, is one of the technologies reshaping how that data moves, and it forces a rethink of some long-held assumptions in data centre networking. This article is the first in a short series.

The Architecture Shift Powering Network Observability

If you work in network operations, you know that the only constant is the increasing complexity of the infrastructure you manage. The days of installing a monolithic software package on a single bare-metal server and letting it hum along for years are largely behind you. The software industry has largely shifted toward cloud-native architectures, microservices, and containerization. While these shifts promise agility and scalability, they also introduce significant operational complexity.