The Latest in Performance Monitoring
and End-User Experience
The Latest in Performance Monitoring and End-User Experience
Introduction: The Move to the Cloud and the Implications In a relatively short time frame, businesses have started to place increasingly significant bets on their cloud services. It isn’t just more workloads, but more business-critical workloads that are now running in the cloud, including in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. This has fundamentally changed the nature of network traffic for...
Tags: Work From Anywhere, Broadcom Software, IT Transformation, Passive Monitoring, Active Monitoring, SaaS, NetOps, End user Experience, Monitoring
Enterprise IT has been in a near constant state of change over the past few years, as worker access remained largely in flux and lines of business were abruptly transformed forever. In this new reality, the enterprise network has become the connective fiber of the business, allowing workers to stay in touch with customers and workflows regardless of their physical...
Tags: compliance, IT solutions, hybrid cloud, cloud, edge, network transformation, digital transformation, IT transformation, IT, tech stack, network monitoring, work from anywhere, work from home, remote work, hybrid work, network management, network performance monitoring
Enterprise IT spending is set to jump 5.1 percent in 2022 as businesses invest upwards of $4.5 trillion into new technologies and services. According to the research from Gartner, enterprise software will see the highest spend this year of all IT categories, with investments totalling $750 billion in 2022—an 11 percent jump from 2021. This comes after two years of...
Tags: Citrix, SaaS, software, IT services, Gartner, work from home, remote work, work from anywhere, hybrid work, enterprise cloud, enterprise IT, network monitoring, network management, digital transformation, budgets, IT
Digital transformation has touched nearly every corner of the enterprise over the past two years, with many businesses already on their second or third major network overhaul since the pandemic began. What’s become clear for many IT leaders is that digital transformation isn’t one single project, but an ongoing process that encompasses the fluid nature of business in a decentralized...
Tags: hybrid work, remote work, work from home, work from anywhere, cloud transformation, enterprise, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, cloud, network transformation, distributed enterprise, decentralization, digital transformation
Over the course of the pandemic, enterprises have bounced back-and-forth on their office return plans, while (intentionally or not) experimenting with new hybrid work schedules to strike a balance between worker safety, comfort and productivity. One of the biggest takeaways from this forced-trial in hybrid work is that whether in the office or not, clocking in from 9am to 5pm,...
Tags: security, observability, visibility, network management, network performance monitoring, hybrid work, remote work, work from anywhere, work from home
By October 2021, there had been more data breaches reported in the United States than during the entirety of 2020, with more victims reported in Q3 2021 than Q1 and Q2 of 2020 combined. With data theft on an upward trajectory at the same time that much of the global workforce is undergoing a hybrid work transformation, it’s incumbent on...
Tags: observability, visbility, MTTI, work from anywhere, hybrid work, remote work, VPN, SDN, DIA, SD WAN, proxies, edge, swg, network security, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, security, SASE
More than 20 million jobs in North America that used to be office based will be fully remote by the end of 2022, according to a recent report. This comes as more than a quarter of the professional workforce (ie. those with salaries exceeding $100,000) makes their Covid-era work-from-home accommodations permanent. Still, businesses and municipal governments have worked hard to...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, network performance, remote jobs, engineer, software, professional, Ladders, hybrid work, remote workforce, remote work, work from home, work from anywhere
While Amazon still has a commanding hold over the cloud market, a string of recent AWS outages and a spending spree by rival providers is heating up the competition—albeit among a handful of familiar players. Most aggressive over the past year has been Google Cloud, which has seen its share of the market grow from 1 percent to 6 percent...
Tags: IT transformation, enterprise IT, enterprise network, enterprise cloud, cloud computing, cloud migration, cloud transformation, cloud adoption, microsoft, azure, google cloud, google, aws, amazon, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management
Like most things in 2021, it’s been hard to compare this year’s holiday shopping season with historical trends, as the pandemic evolves and continues to put our best laid plans for reengaging in-person with each other to the test. Ace among America’s social pastimes is holiday shopping, which has remained strong in terms of total sales despite a reported lack...
Tags: christmas, visibility, observability, network performance monitoring, network management, network performance, remote office, branch office, supply chain, fulfillment, online shopping, in person shopping, brick and mortar, ecommerce, retail, shopping, holiday
As the third calendar year of the pandemic approaches, remote work is no longer a “new normal” but an operational standard at many companies, as more than 53 percent of new workers hired over the past 18 months were onboarded remotely, according to a new survey. The research, conducted by Microsoft in association with YouGov, found that more than half...
Tags: future of work, study, report, microsoft, work from office, work from anywhere, work from home, hybrid work, remote work, DEM, digital experience monitoring, digital experience, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management