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Cloud Visibility: Announcing Kentik Map for Google Cloud

Learn how Kentik Cloud can improve efficiency in managing Google Cloud infrastructure. It showcases Kentik Map, which provides a constantly updated, detailed visualization of your hybrid cloud environment, illuminating how resources interact and are nested within each other. Watch as we demonstrate how to analyze real-time traffic flow, troubleshoot connection problems, and use the routing table to understand network communication issues. Whether you’re resolving network problems, onboarding new team members, or migrating applications to the cloud, the Kentik Map offers a powerful tool to enhance your productivity in Google Cloud.

Simplifying Everyday Network Management: How AI is Changing the Game

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the current buzz word in IT with AI promoted as the magic ingredient for improving business performance across a wide range of areas. But how, specifically, does AI enhance Network Management? The idea that computers can manage themselves is nothing new.

The SNMP Monitoring Ultimate Guide: Components, Versions & Best Tools To Use Today

Managing and monitoring network devices is essential for ensuring the smooth operation of organizations. For this purpose, organizations prefer using SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol. SNMP is a standard Internet protocol through which network administrators collect information about the status and performance of these devices and configure them. In this article, we'll dive deeper into SNMP monitoring, exploring its different versions and components.

Transforming Your Business through Security Offerings

Many service providers are wondering how to best position their security offerings in the current market. This exclusive, two-day program helped MSP executives and security leaders answer: What positions can I take and what are the trade-offs? How will they impact my go-to-market approach? Should I build capabilities internally, or partner externally? What are growing security providers doing differently and better?

Office 365 Monitoring: The Challenges, and What to Do About Them

Office 365 is used by more than one million companies around the world. Business employees count on these apps constantly to do their jobs, whether they’re writing documents, updating spreadsheets, building slides, or checking email. While cloud-based apps like Office 365 offer undeniable advantages for enterprises and business users, they also create tough challenges for IT operations and network operations (NetOps) teams.

How To Enable QUIC Load Balancing on HAProxy

HTTP/3 is the latest generation of the HTTP protocol, and its ability to serve applications over QUIC offers several advantages for user experience, including reduced latency, improved reliability, and faster page loading as a result of fixing the head-of-line blocking issue in previous versions of HTTP. Both HAProxy and HAProxy Enterprise offer support for using HTTP/3 over QUIC, although the steps for enabling QUIC in HAProxy and HAProxy Enterprise are different.

What is NetFlow Analyzer?

In today’s interconnected world, network administrators face the daunting task of managing and securing complex networks. To effectively monitor network traffic and optimize performance, they require comprehensive insights into the data flows within their infrastructure. NetFlow Analyzer is an analytics tool that monitors network traffic flow. It leverages the ability of flow technologies to offer visibility in real time.

Understanding the network edge and edge networking

Generally speaking, a network ‘edge’ is the boundary between two separate networks - where one network ends and another begins. Edges are important, primarily from a security standpoint as they define the jurisdictions owned by different parties, and ‘the edge’ has become a more popular topic of conversation recently through trends which see network resources moved from centralised locations to network edges to make them closer to the end user.

Mindset of an MSP considering M&A

Perry Bowles, technical director for Ziptech Services, shares his story of starting and scaling an MSP. Bowles tells of a conversation that led to a meeting with a total stranger turned business partner nearly 20 years ago. 'Now that's it: Stories of MSP Success,' dives into the journeys of some of the trailblazers in our industry to find out how they used their passion for technology to help turn Managed Services into the thriving sector it is today.