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How Network Slicing May Affect Your Network and Application Performance
April 13, 2018 by Lea Rabinowitz
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
The basic principle of net neutrality, which prohibited internet service providers from throttling speeds or intentionally blocking content, applications or websites, is no longer our reality. Now we’re left to wonder, as bandwidth-hungry applications and connected devices exponentially increase global IP traffic, set to reach 3.3 ZB per year by 2021, what will ISPs do…Continue reading
How (and Why) to Benchmark Your Public Cloud Performance
April 9, 2018 by Andrew Sanders
Cloud Computing, Performance Monitoring
Back in 2011, the average company spent just $6,300 on cloud computing. That’s a drop in the bucket for all but the smallest IT budgets. Things have changed in the intervening years. At the beginning of the decade, companies were just beginning to dip their toes into the cloud. Now they’re completely submerged. Out of…Continue reading
WebRTC: Boon for End-User Experience, Burden for Networks?
April 4, 2018 by Joe Michalowski
Industry Insights, Performance Monitoring
Like just about any other technology, WebRTC has followed the hype cycle pretty closely. (Were you surprised to see a headline on this topic in 2018?) WebRTC, an open source project, aims to boost mobile apps and browsers to real-time speed using APIs. After reaching peak hype around 2013, we slipped down into the trough…Continue reading
What’s Holding Your WiFi Performance Back?
April 2, 2018 by Joe Michalowski
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
We have a tendency to take WiFi networks for granted. As consumers, we don’t think about the logistics of WiFi—we just want to watch Netflix without constant buffering. The same expectation carries over for employees using business applications. They don’t care what’s going on with the WiFi in the background. They just want seamless access…Continue reading
Doing a Cloud Computing Reality Check
March 22, 2018 by Joe Michalowski
Cloud Computing, Performance Monitoring
For at least the last couple of years, IT has been pressured to put everything into the cloud. Whether it’s new startup operating entirely in the cloud or a large, established enterprise trying to migrate, cloud computing has been positioned as the obvious evolution of IT. Everywhere you turned, someone was calling for the death…Continue reading
AWS Monitoring Tools Explained
March 20, 2018 by Andrew Sanders
Cloud Computing, Performance Monitoring
Managing security and performance in the cloud is a tradeoff. On the one hand, your traditional applications will certainly break—they’ll be unable to monitor the data flaws that occur in the cloud, as there’s no analogue in a traditional data center. On the other hand, you’ll have undreamed-of visibility—something that no traditional data center can…Continue reading
Why Your Performance Monitoring Isn’t Working for Remote Locations
March 14, 2018 by Christine Cignoli
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
Many businesses are supporting remote locations, which include any office or location that doesn’t have its own data center and connects to a company data center over a network—LAN, WAN or public internet. Scaling to these locations means that network types are expanding too. Plus, application infrastructure is becoming distributed. SaaS and cloud providers host…Continue reading
SD-WAN and WAN Optimization Aren’t Destined to be a Dynamic Duo
March 13, 2018 by Joe Michalowski
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
Just last summer, we published a post that discussed the differences between SD-WAN and WAN optimization. At the time, many people were simplifying the discussion and wondering if SD-WAN could replace aging WAN optimization solutions. When you break down the purposes of each technology, the two look more like a dynamic duo than a replacement…Continue reading
What’s Under the Hood? What the Best Network Monitoring Tools Have in Common
March 1, 2018 by Christine Cignoli
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
From LAN to WAN, WiFi to VoIP, network monitoring is now critical for companies to get the most from their IT infrastructure. The network monitoring market is set to spike as more companies spend IT budget on tools that help keep tabs on network performance. But what really makes the difference? What do the best…Continue reading
Move Toward Proactive Alerts for Network and Application Monitoring
February 26, 2018 by Alec Pinkham
Performance Monitoring, Product News
Too many software alerts can cause IT teams a lot of annoyance. Though they’re designed to be useful and prevent bigger problems, alerts from multiple systems can easily overload IT inboxes. We hear from customers that they want to use alerting more proactively, rather than continually just reacting to alerts that aren’t all urgent or…Continue reading