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Internet Performance Monitoring: Understand Digital Experience from the User's Perspective

Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) provides end-to-end visibility into what happens between your infrastructure and your users, across networks and services you don’t own or control. The internet is your network now. Your apps live in the cloud, your users are everywhere, and the systems that deliver your applications and services to them use hundreds of providers, ISPs, and networks beyond your control. In practice, that means infrastructure monitoring is the foundation.

What Is IPoDWDM? A Guide to Converged IP and Optical Networking

IP over Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (IPoDWDM) is a network architecture that integrates optical transmission capabilities directly into IP networking equipment such as routers and switches. This approach represents a significant evolution from traditional network designs, where IP and optical layers were managed as separate domains with distinct hardware and operational teams.

Megaport Storage Marks the Next Step Toward Automated Infrastructure at Scale

Built as a globally distributed storage platform integrated directly into the Megaport backbone and co-located with Latitude.sh compute infrastructure, Megaport Storage simplifies how organizations store, move, and access data across distributed environments with a unified infrastructure experience spanning compute, network, and storage. For years, enterprise infrastructure has moved toward abstraction. Compute became elastic. Networks became software-defined.

Announcing HAProxy 3.4

HAProxy 3.4 is a milestone release that significantly advances HAProxy’s legendary flexibility, performance, security, reliability, and observability. Dynamic backend management simplifies integration with modern architectures, memory efficiency improves across a broader range of workloads, native cryptographic operations at the proxy layer open new possibilities for API security architectures, and OpenTelemetry support makes HAProxy a first-class participant in distributed tracing pipelines.

A New Approach to Mac Patch Management

Managing macOS patching shouldn’t mean juggling tools, chasing failures, or leaving endpoints exposed. In this webinar, N‑able experts share a new approach to Mac patch management that brings visibility, consistency, and control into a single workflow. Join our product and engineering specialists as they walk through how modern patching is evolving beyond isolated updates into a unified endpoint remediation strategy. You’ll see how patching and vulnerability management are being brought closer together, helping you detect risks, prioritise actions, and remediate with confidence.

The Hidden Cost of Network Blind Spots (and How to Fix It)

Even the smallest gaps in infrastructure visibility can lead to major impacts to an enterprise. And with modern IT environments becoming more complex it creates rising expectations for uptime. Our recent webinar, The Hidden Cost of Network Blind Spots and Alert Noise, covered this exact topic. The Progress WhatsUp Gold product experts explored why traditional monitoring falls short and best practices to moving toward smarter, more proactive network management.

Auvik Brings Multi-Vendor Network Intelligence to AI Agents in Cisco Cloud Control

Modern IT infrastructure is messy, spanning multiple vendors, cloud platforms, and on-premises systems, with critical data spread across separate tools. This patchwork makes troubleshooting harder for IT teams and AI agents alike, forcing them to piece together operational context from different domains and interfaces before they can act with a complete understanding of the environment. But what if AI agents could pull operational data from across your diverse IT environment and correlate it for you?