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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
In Q3 2021, Microsoft Cloud saw revenues jump 36 percent year-over-year to $20.7 billion. But Microsoft wasn’t the only Big Tech company that saw their fortunes grow thanks to a hunger for enterprise cloud during 2021: AWS saw cloud revenue jump by 39 percent to more than $16 billion last quarter, while Google Cloud saw revenue jump 45 percent to...
Tags: work from home, work from anywhere, hybrid work, remote work, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, cloud migration, cloud computing, cloud transformation, cloud adoption, google cloud, amazon, aws, microsoft, \Azure, cloud computing, network management
In Q3 2021, Microsoft Cloud saw revenues jump 36 percent year-over-year to $20.7 billion. But Microsoft wasn’t the only Big Tech company that saw their fortunes grow thanks to a hunger for enterprise cloud during 2021: AWS saw cloud revenue jump by 39 percent to more than $16 billion last quarter, while Google Cloud saw revenue jump 45 percent to...
Tags: work from home, work from anywhere, hybrid work, remote work, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, cloud migration, cloud computing, cloud transformation, cloud adoption, google cloud, amazon, aws, microsoft, \Azure, cloud computing, network management
Microsoft Cloud saw revenues jump 36 percent year-over-year to $20.7 billion last quarter, pushing the company’s quarterly cloud earnings past the $20 billion threshold for the first time. Looking specifically at Azure infrastructure-as-a-service, revenues actually grew at a rate of 50 percent year-over-year, as enterprises continue turning to the cloud to connect their decentralized workforce. But Microsoft wasn’t the only...
Tags: network ops, enterprise IT, enterprise cloud, network monitoring, network management, network performance monitoring, network, Q3, profit, revenue, digital transformation, cloud transformation, cloud adoption, cloud computing, cloud, amazon, aws, google cloud, google, azure, microsoft
It’s estimated that by 2025, more than 100 zettabytes of data will be stored in the cloud. That not only represents a massive amount of data (to put it in terms end users might be able to digest, one zettabyte equals a trillion gigabytes), but roughly half of all the total global data forecast to be collected by 2025. For...
Tags: hybrid office, remote work, work from home, hybrid work, work from anywhere, SaaS, outside in monitoring, cloud management, cloud monitoring, network management, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, TMC, awards, cloud computing, cloud
In this next installment of our conversation with AppNeta’s Chief Customer Officer Adam Edwards and our Director of Global Alliances John Tewfik—featuring excerpts from their recent webcast on Hybrid Work Optimization—we’re going to discuss the hot-button topic of security, privacy and trust in a hybrid work world. Adam kicks us off by discussing some of the most popular networking strategies...
Tags: Stories From The Wire, podcast, network performance monitoring, enterprise network, enterprise IT, Microsoft Teams, remote monitoring, remote work, network performance, network monitoring, network management, work from anywhere, cloud computing, hybrid work, work from home, wfh, privacy, zero trust, trust, cybersecurity, security
Recently, we hosted a webinar with our Chief Customer Officer Adam Edwards and our Director of Global Alliances John Tewfik that discussed the concept of Hybrid Work; specifically, how both the definition and perception of hybrid work has evolved over the past couple of years, and what strategies need to be transformed in kind to navigate a Hybrid Work world....
Tags: VPN, VDI, work from home, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, network management, enterprise IT, cloud computing, work from anywhere, work from home, remote work, hybrid work
With enterprises yet again pushing back their return-to-office plans, many business leaders are taking a closer look at flexible work schedules in an effort to increase worker satisfaction—and really decrease burnout. This comes as research shows workers are putting in more hours than ever during the pandemic, with many folks still struggling to unplug from work when they log onto...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network management, network operations, IT ops, network monitoring, cloud computing, hybrid work, wfh, wfa, work from home, work from anywhere, remote work, hybrid office
As we near the close of summer 2021, what digital transformations that took place in the home last fall to support remote work (and remote learning) will stick around as we kick off a new school year? According to recent data, workers that had been jockeying for their share of internet capacity at home throughout the pandemic will likely have...
Tags: network admin, IT admin, IT ops, remote IT, network management, network performance monitoring, zero trust, SASE, WAN, SDWAN, edge network, enterprise IT, cloud computing, hybrid work, remote work, work from anywhere, work from home, wfh, back to school, podcast
Multicloud – the practice of formally relying on more than one cloud provider – got a big boost recently when the Pentagon chose to cancel a proposed cloud contract with a single vendor in favor of hiring multiple vendors. While some analysts have warned about the potential complexity of multicloud (and some enterprises have had to set aside a preference...
Tags: IT, footprint, infrastructure, architecture, enterprise network, work from home, work from anywhere, remote office, remote work, hybrid work, hybrid office, hybrid cloud, multicloud, cloud computing, cloud
Few platforms saw their profile rise as high as Microsoft Teams over the past 18 months, as the solution became the enterprise go-to for keeping newly-homebound workforces connected during the pandemic. As of Microsoft’s most recent earnings call, Teams now claims 145 million daily active users, nearly double the users counted almost a year ago, and the 32 million daily...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network management, network monitoring, enterprise network, cloud computing, Azure, enterprise cloud, cloud, enterprise IT, IT, network operations, netops, devops, developers, 365, Build 2021, Build, Office 365, Outlook, teams, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft
Only 28 percent of enterprises are fully realizing the benefits of their cloud investments due to a lack of coordination between traditional network operations teams and separate units steering cloud migration. This is according to the recent findings from EMA and Bluecat’s “A House Divided” report, which found that 72 percent of enterprises see room for improvement in their cloud...
Tags: cloud adoption, cloud migration, network transformation, digital transformation, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, enterprise cloud, enterprise network, enterprise IT, IT, network operations, network management, scalability, SaaS, software, on prem, on premises, hybrid office, hybrid cloud, cloud monitoring, cloud management, cloud computing
While the popular narrative around enterprise software has long been centered on the ascension of SaaS, on-premises software demand continues to be strong with 92 percent of companies reporting their on-premise software sales are growing. According to the findings of a new Dimensional Research report from Replicated, demand for on-premises software is equally as strong as cloud solutions, as many...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network management, network performance, colocoation, hybrid cloud, enterprise cloud, enterprise data center, cloud visibility, cloud transformation, cloud computing, cloud, SaaS, software, data center, on premises
As AppNeta embarks on its second decade innovating network performance monitoring, our trophy shelf continues to grow with our business, as we’re the proud winners of two 2021 Stevies from the American Business Awards—Silver for Achievement in Product Innovation and Bronze for Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year (up to 2,500 employees). This is our second year in a...
Tags: wins, award, enterprise IT, enterprise cloud, enterprise network, network management, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, remote monitoring, cloud transformation, cloud computing, hybrid cloud, hybrid office, hybrid work, work from anywhere, work from home, remote work, distributed enterprise, enterprise decentralization, digital transformation, American Business Awards, ABAs, Stevies
More than three quarters of business leaders surveyed by Deloitte credited their organizations’ digital capabilities for helping them survive (if not thrive) during the pandemic, a new report finds. To that end, more than two thirds of respondents see businesses that fail to digitize and transform across departments within the next five years as “doomed,” according to Deloitte’s annual Digital...
Tags: observability, visibility, post pandemic, pandemic, IT, cloud migration, cloud transformation, cloud computing, cloud, edge, enterprise network, enterprise cloud, enterprise IT, enterprise transformation, digital transformation, gartner, deloitte, work from home, work from anywhere, network management, network performance monitoring
As enterprises continue the march toward a Work From Anywhere future, VMware is the latest IT solutions provider to debut a new suite of tools aimed squarely at managing a distributed workforce. Called “Anywhere Workspace,” the new offering combines VMware’s Workspace One platform with endpoint security from VMware’s Carbon Black and SASE product lines. “Even though each of these three...
Tags: distributed enterprise, decentralization, hybrid cloud, hybrid work, hybrid office, anywhere operations, anywhere workspace, work from anywhere, work from home, remote workforce, remote work, network management, WAN, network security, security, SASE, cloud computing, cloud, VMware
Hot on the heels of our recent CUSTOMER Product of the Year win, TMC has again recognized AppNeta for our outstanding approach to enabling enterprises to monitor and manage their rapidly evolving network footprints. This time, we’ve been named a 2021 Cloud Computing Product of the Year, proving yet again that as the world was forced to adopt a whole...
Tags: transformation, enterprise, decentralization, wfa, wfh, work from home, work from anywhere, remote work, remote workforce, network manamgenet, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, SaaS, product of the year, cloud computing Award, cloud computing, cloud
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced it would launch its own Financial Services Cloud, joining IBM, who announced their finance cloud a year earlier, in an attempt to meaningfully bring cloud transformation to an industry that’s historically been averse to change. Retail banking has already been a fruitful frontier for cloud computing and tech disruption, what with Venmo and Zelle leaving...
Tags: network management, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, enterprise transformation, digital transformation, cloud migration, cloud, cloud transformation, cloud computing, banking, corporate banking, finance cloud, financial services, finance
We work with our customers everyday to provide proactive insight on the key apps supporting the business and best practices for addressing issues when they arise. Up this week is a great example of how having a continuous baseline of your cloud applications will help you take action before your users are impacted. On March 15th, saw an issue with...
Tags: network management, enterprise IT, cloud transformation, cloud, cloud computing, Active Directory, Azure outage, Azure, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft, MTTR, MTTI, IT troubleshooting, network performance monitoring
It’s official: AppNeta is among the elite winners of the 23rd Annual CUSTOMER Product of the Year Awards from TMC, one of the leading publishers and online communities covering enterprise technology. The CUSTOMER Product of the Year Award recognized 29 vendors for 2021 that have helped advance the call center, CRM, and teleservices industries over the past year, as global...
Tags: network monitoring, network performance monitoring, software, SaaS, cloud computing, cloud transformation, cloud, work from anywhere, work from home, remote workers, remote workforce, remote work, teleservices, CRM, unified communications, UC, contact center, ucaas, call center, 2021, product of the year, customer Product of the Year Award, TMCNet, customer, TMC
This blog is the first in a series from our Solutions Consultant team giving their point of view on the most pressing challenges facing IT teams in 2021. Let’s be honest. Working from home has its challenges, particularly during the pandemic. For those of us with children there are a host of potential pitfalls. One need only look at some...
Tags: SaaS, UC, ucaas, analytics, data, IT, enteprise IT, digital transformation, cloud computing, KPIs, KPI, key performance indicators, performance indicators, remote workforce, remote work, work from anywhere, work from home, network performance management, network management, network performance monitoring, performance management, performance monitoring
While cloud computing has had broad positive (and transformative) implications across industries, every vertical leverages the cloud differently to suit their unique services and offerings. Microsoft is taking another step in giving specific industries their very own vertical-oriented cloud playgrounds with the introduction of three new suites: Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services, Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing, and Microsoft Cloud for...
Tags: enterprise cloud, cloud transformation, cloud computing, Office 365, Microsoft 365, Azure, Microsoft Cloud, financial technology, fintech, financial services, finance, nonprofit, retail, healthcare, manufacturing
According to the Accenture Technology Vision 2021 report, leading enterprises are squeezing almost a decade of digital transformation into one- or two-year projects today, with success hinging on a strong network architecture to deliver. All of this comes as enterprises are forced to fundamentally rethink their businesses around a strong digital foundation, with companies that embrace digital transformation today growing...
Tags: wfh, wfa, work from home, work from anywhere, remote workforce, remote work, BYOE, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, cloud computing, big data, network architecture, network infrastructure, enterprise WAN, enterprise IT, accenture, network transformation, cloud transformation, digital transformation
Opinions on fintech have become a political hot button after activist investors recently used apps like Robinhood to drive GameStop stocks up 4000 percent. But regardless of where you stand on the virtues of the stock market, fintech solutions are everywhere, helping people manage their budgets (Truebill, Mint), estimate the value of property (Zillow, Rentberry) or just pay their friends...
Tags: banking applications, banking app, banking cloud, banking, cloud transformation, cloud computing, finance cloud, finance SaaS, SaaS, asset apps, budget apps, finance apps, proptech, property technology, property tech, financial technology, fintech
While Microsoft has succeeded in dominating the burgeoning enterprise cloud software market over the past year, AWS continued to reign supreme when it comes to total cloud investments during Q4 2020, with revenues growing 28 percent year-over-year to $12.74 billion. Despite this growth, AWS’s total share of the cloud market slipped slightly from Q4 2019 from 32.4 percent to 31...
Tags: collaboration, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft, ucaas, SaaS, network architecture, enterprise network, enterprise cloud, cloud migration, cloud computing, Google Cloud, Azure Cloud, AWS cloud, Azure, AWS, network transformation, cloud transformation, cloud adoption
With the pandemic forcing many businesses to adopt a work-from-anywhere posture, Microsoft has emerged as the enterprise go-to for scalable and agile cloud solutions, pushing the company’s Q2 quarterly revenue to a higher-than-expected $43.1 billion. This exceeds Microsoft’s quarterly revenue targets by almost $3 billion, as Microsoft’s stock was up 5 percent in after-market trading on January 26. “What we...
Tags: cloud transformation, digital transformation, network transformation, work from home, work from anywhere, remote workforce, remote work, enterprise IT, network management, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, cloud migration, cloud adoption, enterprise cloud, cloud computing, cloud, Microsoft revenue, Microsoft earnings, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft
Nearly a year into widespread work-from-home (WFH), the cracks are starting to show at some organizations who may not have primed their workforce (or their networks) for an extended absence from the office. According to research from productivity software company Asana, burnout is now being felt among the vast majority of knowledge workers as teams struggle to define and enforce...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, Microsoft Teams, teams, cloud computing, cloud, video, voice, voip, collaboration, ucaas, zoom, remote workers, remote workforce, remote work, hybrid office, wfa, work from anywhere, wfh, work from home, burnout, burn out
With employees at home, the requirements on IT to troubleshoot residential and last-mile ISP network issues is growing, even as inherent visibility into these networks remains lacking. At AppNeta, our active monitoring provides insight into employees’ local networks and last-mile ISP performance to help IT quickly understand the root cause of performance issues. So if that root cause is with...
Tags: network management, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, network performance, SLA validation, last mile performance, ISP validation, commercial internet, home internet, cloud computing, hybrid office, anywhere operations, work from anywhere, work from home, wfh, last mile visibility, last mile, service level agreement, SLA, internet service provider, internet, ISP
You can’t be blamed for feeling a bit of whiplash when reading predictions on the future of work over the past few months. While enterprise decentralization has been growing for the better part of the past decade, the pandemic-induced rush to remote work proved to many once-skeptical business leaders that the office isn’t necessarily essential to employee productivity. Still, there...
Tags: end user, end user experience, network performance monitoring, network management, cloud computing, cloud, network performance, enterprise network, distributed enterprise, distribution, decentralization, wfa, hybrid office, wfh, work from home, work from anywhere, remote work
Enterprises by and large fell into two buckets when it came to how they’re network operations teams responded to the massive disruption posed by the pandemic. Some organizations resisted new wide-scale cloud adoption, fearing that a big network transformation would be more disruptive than helpful with all the areas of the business being impacted at once by global events. Others,...
Tags: budget, hybrid cloud, multicloud, enterprise cloud, cloud migration, cloud computing, cloud adoption, cloud transformation, network transformation, digital transformation, enterprise networks, enterprise IT, IT budgets, visibility, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, network management
Microsoft Teams has seen it’s popularity explode over the past year, establishing it’s position atop the highly competitive market for enterprise communication software in a time when remote collaboration has become essential. With integration and storage capabilities that, until recently, were unrivaled, it only makes sense that Teams would continue to see it’s adoption rise over the course of 2020....
Tags: network performance monitoring and diagnostics, network management, end user experience, end user experience monitoring, network performance monitoring, enterprise network monitoring, enterprise network, enterprise IT, software as a service, SaaS, cloud computing, cloud, Microsoft, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams Monitoring, Microsoft Teams Management, ucaas, voice, video, collaboration, Office 365
The Business Intelligence Group (BIG) has recognized AppNeta as one of the 38 winners of the 2020 Stratus Awards for Cloud Computing, cementing our status as a leader in the cloud and a trusted partner for businesses during challenging times. This latest recognition is a true testament to our solution’s ability to scale and respond to the changing conditions of...
Tags: network performance monitoring and diagnostics, network management, end user experience, end user experience monitoring, network performance monitoring, enterprise network monitoring, enterprise network, enterprise IT, software as a service, SaaS, cloud computing, cloud, 2020 Stratus Awards, 2020 Awards, BIG Stratus Awards
According to Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, “the most strategic combination in the history of software” took place this week as Salesforce officially acquired Slack in an all-stock deal valued at $27.7 billion. The acquisition sets up a titanic battle between Salesforce and Microsoft, as Slack is considered the primary competitor to Microsoft’s Teams collaboration platform, which has exploded in popularity...
Tags: network management, network performance monitoring, enterprise network, enterprise IT, enterprise collaboration, collaboration software, ucaas, SaaS, enterprise software, collaboration tools, voice, video & collaboration, voice & video, voice, cloud computing, cloud, merger, customer 360, Office 365, Microsoft Teams, teams, Microsoft, salesforce, Slack
When Gartner first introduced the concept of “secure access service edge” (SASE, pronounced sassy) into the enterprise IT lexicon back in August 2019, they had estimated that “by 2024, at least 40 percent of enterprises will have explicit [SASE] strategies,” up from less than 1 percent in 2018. Flash forward to today, and not even Gartner could’ve predicted the smorgasbord...
Tags: DIA, enterprise cloud, cloud computing, enterprise IT, network performance monitoring, network management, network monitoring, CASB, MPLS, VPN, firewall, security, edge computing, edge, secure access software edge, SD WAN, SaaS, SASE, enterprise IT
To pin the fast and furious shift in consumer attitudes over the past year on a single crisis would be impossible, as social, economic, environmental and public health issues all converged over the course of 2020 to throw every business’ best laid plans out the window. To try to measure the impact of these simultaneous changes on consumer behavior, Salesforce...
Tags: cloud computing, cloud, digital channels, digital transformation, consumer tastes, consumer trends, salesforce, network management, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, enterprise IT
Pandemic restrictions have pushed workers in practically every role out of their comfort zone, forcing them to log onto work from the home environments that used to be their “escape” from the 9-to-5. But as the walls between the office and home have blurred, so too have the hours of work, as many employees—specifically those working at major tech companies—are...
Tags: IT efficiency, remote workforce, remote worker, remote work, Silicon Valley, Facebook, Google, network management, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, enterprise WAN, work from home, wfh, cloud computing, enterprise IT
Residential Internet access has never been a hotter commodity, as everyone from network engineers to their first graders are sharing at-home WiFi and pushing the limits on residential upload and download needs over the course of the pandemic. As a result, ISPs like Comcast are exploring ways to deliver enterprise-caliber Internet speeds out to residences without having to undergo costly...
Tags: comcast internet, direct internet connectivity, DIA, direct to internet, internet, remote worker, remote workforce, remote work, wfh, WIFI, internet service provider, residential ISP, ISP, comcast, cloud computing, network performance monitoring, enterprise IT
Two giants of the enterprise cloud computing space made waves this week as Microsoft and Google each announced expansions to their respective Azure and Cloud platforms that are aimed squarely at fostering increased business flexibility and multi-cloud networking. During the launch at Microsoft Ignite, the company’s flagship annual developer’s conference, a greatly enhanced version of Azure was unveiled that expands...
Tags: Google Cloud, Google, Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft, Azure, data center monitoring, data center cloud, data center, work from home, wfh, edge computing, edge cloud, hybrid cloud, multi cloud, cloud computing, cloud, network management, network monitoring, network performance monitoring
Enterprise cloud adoption continues its rapid acceleration in 2020 as a new survey from IDG found that cloud investments will account for 32 percent of total IT budgets by 2021. The report, which is compiled of reader respondents from CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld and Network World tech buyer audiences, found that cloud spending is up 59 percent from 2018 levels,...
Tags: cloud, cloud, remote workforce, remote worker, remote work, wfh, work from home, end user experience, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, network management, cloud computing, cloud migration, cloud adoption
Prior to the global pandemic, SD-WAN was among the leading digital transformation initiatives in the enterprise space, as IT teams deployed this tech to help to connect their increasingly distributed remote office footprint. Months into the global quarantine, however, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the pre-COVID focus on the remote office has shifted markedly to support work-from-home (WFH), which conventional...
Tags: network management, network performance monitoring, remote worker, remote workforce, remote work, work from home, wfh, cloud computing, enterprise IT, enterprise WAN, SD WAN
Healthcare workers have been the true heroes of the pandemic to date, as they’ve bravely adapted to a new way of working to ensure the best care possible for their communities during unprecedented times. Now, the healthcare industry as a whole is rapidly transforming beyond how they treat patients in the hospital to better serve people remotely, accelerating telehealth efforts...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, healthcare providers, digital transformation, cloud transformation, healthcare cloud, healthcare transformation, healthcare, cloud computing, telehealth
The impact of the global pandemic has been dramatic for the enterprise space, upending financial forecasts and sending workers across the globe home in accordance with social distancing guidelines. But while the conversation regarding the workforce has largely been centered around ongoing work-from-home (WFH) initiatives, businesses are now emerging from the “rushed” phase of their transformation and into a period...
Tags: network performance, network management, network performance monitoring, SD WAN, enterprise IT, enterprise network, wide area network, WAN, office network, real estate, office, office life, cloud computing, wfh, work from home, remote work
If you’ve felt your organization’s cloud migration accelerating at a faster pace than ever the past few months, you’re not alone. The latest Cloud 2025 report from LogicMonitor shows that in just the past two months, attitudes toward cloud adoption have become almost unanimously positive as enterprise IT teams continue to exceed expectations in transforming their networks for quarantine. The...
Tags: network management solutions, network management, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network transformation, cloud transformation, digital transformation, enterprise IT, enterprise WAN, enterprise cloud, cloud computing, cloud adoption, cloud migration
Virtual call centers have long been at the top of the wishlist for enterprises looking to cut costs through digital transformation, and 2020 is proving to be the year many leading consumer brands see their wishes come true. When enterprises across the Globe were forced to set users up for work-from-home (WFH) in response to the COVID-19 outbreak back in...
Tags: cloud management, network management, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network transformation, digital transformation, cloud transformation, covd 19, cloud adoption, cloud migration, cloud computing, virtual contact center, virtual call center, cloud contact center, cloud call center, contact center, call center
Cloud computing has been viewed as “the way forward” for enterprises for years, but it took a global pandemic for many companies to finally push ahead on their wide-scale cloud migrations. And while many teams had to rush their enterprise-grade cloud transformations to support a suddenly decentralized network footprint, now that the steady march to the cloud has begun, there’s...
Tags: enterprise WAN, enterprise IT, cloud awards, network performance monitoring, network management, network performance, ucaas, SaaS, cloud apps, cloud adoption, cloud migration, cloud computing, cloud
While offices across the globe have been inching closer to reopening in fits and starts over the past few weeks, a new report from Xerox has found that 85 percent of IT and tech decision makers expect they’ll finally be back in the office within the next 18 months. The report found that the biggest pain point for a third...
Tags: office life, Xerox, pandemic, COVID 19, tech jobs, IT jobs, enterprise IT, remote workforce, remote workers, remote work, wfh, work from home, cloud computing, cloud
A survey of 1,283 software engineers, technical leads, and IT decision-makers from across the globe found that 45 percent planned to move the majority of their apps to the cloud in 2020. While 88 percent already rely on cloud infrastructure in some form or another, almost half planned to shift three quarters or more of their workflows into the cloud...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, enterprise WAN, enterprise IT, cloud applications, SaaS, cloud apps, enterprise apps, containerization, containers, hybrid cloud, enterprise cloud, cloud adoption, cloud migration, cloud computing, cloud
Now more than ever, your enterprise network is the critical backbone that drives the success of your business. It supports your primary channels for customer outreach, the tools your employees use every day to get the job done, and the lines of communication for the entire organization as the way we work evolves. That’s why it’s never been more critical...
Tags: network transformation, end user experience, efficient IT, digital transformation, cloud migration, cloud computing, network monitoring, network management, network performance monitoring, network, tagline, AppNeta
The bar for what qualifies as “innovative” in the business world these days has never been higher. Enterprise needs are evolving at the fastest rate in recent memory, and the demand for agile, scalable solutions that can enable businesses to react quickly has never been greater. That’s why we’re incredibly honored to be among this year’s Stevies honorees from the...
Tags: Innovative Technology, Innovative Tech, Innovative, innovation, American Business Awards, Stevie Awards, network monitoring, network management, enterprise IT, enterprise WAN, digital transformation, cloud computing, network performance monitoring
Microsoft Build, one of four tentpole developer conferences held annually, kicked off its first-ever completely virtual edition this week with a slew of announcements that confirm the tech giant is betting big on cloud – and not letting COVID-19 slow them down. With Facebook’s F8 conference postponed and Google’s I/O conference cancelled, Microsoft Build is the first major developer gathering...
Tags: network management, enterprise networks, network monitoring, network management, enterprise, enterprise IT, Microsoft Azure, Azure, supercomputing, supercomputer, cloud computing, cloud, Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft build, Microsoft
The 2020 State of the Cloud report from Flexera finds that multicloud deployments remain the enterprise networking strategy du jour this year, even if (or, perhaps specifically because) COVID-19 has thrown previous transformation plans off course. The report found that 93 percent of companies have a strategy to use multiple providers – specifically Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google...
Tags: hybrid cloud, private cloud, public cloud, enterprise cloud, enterprise IT, enterprise WAN, cloud adoption, cloud migration, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, cloud computing, multi cloud, multicloud, cloud
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be a huge wake-up call for enterprises that hadn’t prioritized cloud migration prior to global WFH orders, as cloud solutions have become a lifeline in the face of an unprecedented shift in how the world does business. As teams rushed to deploy tools and workflows to hundreds (if not thousands) of locations across a...
Tags: work from home, remote work, wfh, enterprise transformation, network transformation, digital transformation, network monitoring, network management, enterprise IT, enterprise WAN, enterprise network, enterprise, social distancing, quarantine, pandemic, COVID 19, cloud migration services, cloud migration, cloud adoption, cloud computing, clou
Social distancing guidelines have made UCaaS tools more than just business-critical solutions, as it seems like every parent and grandparent with WiFi access has been hopping on Zoom and other video conferencing apps to bridge the gap between friends and family in isolation. This has put unprecedented pressure on unified communication providers, whose products demand a higher share of network...
Tags: WAH, wfh, work remote, work from home, remote office, remote work, cloud computing, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, Citrix WebEx, WebEx, zoom, teams, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft, ucaas, UC, unified communications, video calls, video conferencing
With teams going remote en masse and across industries, network infrastructures are already being put to the test as a wealth of cloud and web applications travel across diverse network environments to keep far-flung teams in sync. That’s why it’s never been more important that the tools IT teams use to manage and monitor network performance aren’t themselves putting added...
Tags: KPI, management stack, ucaas, SaaS, branch office, remote office, remote work, enterprise WAN, enterprise network, network monitoring, network management, cloud computing, enterprise IT, network performance monitoring
Across industries, work-from-home (WFH) became the new normal over the past few weeks, forcing enterprise IT teams to push the gas on their network transformation projects, or start fast-tracking new ones altogether to support a deluge of remote users. Fortunately, AppNeta Performance Manager is here to ensure enterprise IT teams rise to the occasion and can gain the remote visibility...
Tags: cloud computing, remote workforce, remote office, remote worker, remote work, wfh, work from home, enterprise network monitoring, enterprise network, enterprise WAN, enterprise IT, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, AppNeta
Office workers coast-to-coast are getting their first taste of remote work as COVID-19 (also known as the novel coronavirus) forces many who would normally commute to instead set up work from home (WFH). From March 9 to 15, virtual private network (VPN) vendor Atlas saw usage of VPNs, which enable many companies to safely extend their private networks to remote...
Tags: ucaas, SaaS, cloud computing, enterprise, enterprise IT, enterprise WAN, network management, network performance monitoring, network performance, virtual private network, VPN, working from home, remote working, remote work, wfh, work from home, coronavirus, COVID 19
It goes without saying that as the COVID-19 outbreak continues disrupting everyone’s day-to-day, anxieties are running high and there still seem to be more questions than answers about the virus’ short- and long-term impact. From having to scramble to adopt a new way of working, to stress testing networks to support remote traffic – and, most importantly, ensuring the health...
Tags: enterprise WAN, enterprise IT, IT infrastructure, cloud computing, Company News
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According to a recent survey, 81 percent of IT professionals believe that the majority of data center and network management tasks performed today will be automated by 2025, driven in large part by the rise of cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. What’s more, 66 percent of those polled think the on-premises data center will become a relic of the...
Tags: hybrid cloud, multicloud, on premises, data center, cloud migration, cloud adoption, cloud, cloud computing, cloud transformation, digital transformation, enterprise WAN, enterprise, enterprise IT, network performance, network monitoring, cloud computing, network performance monitoring
According to a recent survey, 81 percent of IT professionals believe that the majority of data center and network management tasks performed today will be automated by 2025, driven in large part by the rise of cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. What’s more, 66 percent of those polled think the on-premises data center will become a relic of the...
Tags: hybrid cloud, multicloud, on premises, data center, cloud migration, cloud adoption, cloud, cloud computing, cloud transformation, digital transformation, enterprise WAN, enterprise, enterprise IT, network performance, network monitoring, cloud computing, network performance monitoring
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Remote work in the enterprise has already been on an uptick for quite a while, as more widespread adoption of agile tech and flexible cloud and SaaS applications have made it easier for employers to engage with a far-flung workforce. A recent report shows that between 2007 and 2015, there was a 159 percent jump in remote work across sectors,...
Tags: enterprise IT, enterprise WAN, WAN, VPN, ucaas, cloud computing, quarantine, work from home, remote workers, epidemic, outbreak, coronavirus, remote work, digital transformation, network performance monitoring
Measuring API Performance with AppNeta’s HTTP Monitoring We live in a world of interconnected web services. When someone uses a web application, for instance, that app almost always utilizes other web services, which may in turn use another set of web services, and so on. Web services, through their Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), increasingly represent critical business resources that contribute,...
Tags: ucaas, SaaS, cloud adoption, cloud migration, cloud computing, cloud, digital transformation, information technology, enterprise WAN, network management, enterprise monitoring, network monitoring, HTTP monitoring, API monitoring, API, HTTP, enterprise IT, network performance monitoring
Fifty-four percent of office workers say they’d leave their job for one that offers flexible work time, according to a recent Gallup poll. What’s more, Gallup found that those who work remotely 60 percent to 80 percent of the time (ie. three to four days in a five-day work week) feel that they are more fully engaged with their managers...
Tags: Gallup poll, virtual organization, decentralization, cloud computing, enterprise IT, enterprise WAN, enterprise, work from home, remote workforce, remote office, remote workers, remote work, network monitoring, network performance monitoring
In nearly every field imaginable, digital transformation is paving the way for improved efficiencies, from self check-in at hotels to finance apps upending the way we bank. But in healthcare, improving “the business” goes hand-in-hand with saving lives, or at the very least keeping individuals and their data safe and well – areas where digital transformation could theoretically be making...
Tags: mri, x rays, medical imaging, imaging, HITECH, HIPAA, EHR, EHRs, electronic health records, patient data, healthcare data, data, network performance monitoring, network performance, cloud computing, cloud, digital transformation, healthcare digital transformation, healthcare
Not only are branch offices growing in number as enterprises ramp up decentralization, but so is the data being generated at the branch and where that traffic goes. With IaaS and SaaS transforming how apps are delivered to branch locations, these offices are increasingly connecting to both cloud providers and their corporate data centers (if not retiring their dependency on...
Tags: public cloud, hybrid cloud, cloud migration, cloud computing, cloud, IT, enterprise IT, enterprise network, enterprise WAN, SDWAN, SD WAN, MPLS, IaaS, SaaS, remote workforce, remote workers, remote work, work from home, remote location, remote office, branch office, WIFI6, WIFI, 5G, internet of things, IoT
In our 2020 Enterprise App Report Card, we touched upon the fact that Microsoft’s comprehensive Office 365 suite of enterprise productivity and collaboration tools is relatively unrivaled among AppNeta customers in terms of sheer users. But the software pioneer may soon be facing some stiff competition from another nearly-ubiquitous tech giant, as it was recently announced that Google is looking...
Tags: enterprise IT, enterprise, Microsoft Office, Microsoft, Office 365, enterprise applications, applications, SaaS, ucaas, unified communications, UC, Google Cloud, Google, cloud computing, cloud, network performance monitoring
As more and more enterprise workflows migrate to cloud, so go the enterprise jobs, according to data culled by staffing website Indeed.com. The findings show that over the past half decade, the number of inquiries and postings for jobs related to cloud computing have been on a steady uptick, with some cloud-related salaries rising in tandem. From October 2018 to...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network monitoring, network management, LAN, WAN, enterprise WAN, enterprise networking, enterprise network, enterprise IT, SaaS, cloud adoption, cloud migration, cloud transformation, cloud IT, cloud jobs, cloud computing
It’s no secret that cloud and SaaS apps are fundamentally changing the game for enterprise IT. While these teams used to own and control the bulk of their hardware-based, legacy workflows, the move to the cloud has empowered IT to offload a lot of their hardware altogether. Best of all, SaaS apps can be launched “as-a-service” in just a few...
Tags: enterprise, enterprise WAN, enterprise IT, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, application performance monitoring, application monitoring, apps, applications, software as a service, software, SaaS, cloud computing, network performance monitoring
A recent report from Synergy Research Group that rounds up the decade’s biggest trends in IT spending was at times both predictable and a bit of a head-scratcher. For starters, in 2010, the amount of budget that IT teams were allocating to cloud infrastructure services was practically non-existent. This isn’t altogether surprising, as the cloud as we know it today...
Tags: enterprise WAN, WAN, enterprise network, IT, enterprise IT, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, cloud migration, cloud computing, cloud, data center
At this rate, the term ‘transformation’ may feel a little tired in the context of enterprise IT and networking, as industry forecasts have been anticipating transformative changes to networking operations for the better part of the last decade. But there are a number of truly transformational initiatives gaining steam across the enterprise space that will be a top priority for...
Tags: AWS, Amazon Web Services, Amazon, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, network management, internet transformation, cloud transformation, SaaS transformation, SaaS, digital transformation, cloud computing
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Last week, the AppNeta team took to Las Vegas for the 2020 Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies (IOCS) Conference, where leaders and learners across the tech landscape converged to discuss where things stand today and get a sense of the future of enterprise networking. As expected, the many flavors of network “transformation” underway across the enterprise space was...
Tags: SaaS, cloud, cloud computing, enterprise IT, enterprise WAN, software defined wide area network, software defined WAN, WAN, SD WAN, artificial intelligence, AIOps, network performance monitoring, networking, IT ops, IT, IOCS, gartner IOCS, gartner
From the onslaught of SaaS, to the widespread adoption of cloud, to leveraging the Internet to connect stakeholders across the WAN, there are no lack of special projects that IT has to manage at any given time. In the midst of steering transformations like SD-WAN and DIA adoption, teams need to also execute on their day-to-day marching orders of ensuring...
Tags: network bandwidth, bandwidth, network capacity, network monitoring and diagnostics, network monitoring, network performance, network management, apps, application management, SaaS, cloud computing, network performance monitoring
With AWS re:Invent taking place in Las Vegas this week, ‘cloud’ and all of its associated buzzwords will be the talk of the tech industry (not to say that cloud is ever that far from the tech headlines). That’s because event host Amazon is set to unveil a bevy of new products that are aimed squarely at making cloud migration...
Tags: network performance monitoring, AWS re:Invent, re:Invent, Amazon cloud, AWS, Amazon, networking technology, network technology, networking, cloud migration, cloud computing, cloud
As heated as the “streaming wars” already were between cable-killing pioneers like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, a pair of new streamers are making a late entrance into the fray, backed by billions of investment dollars and some of the largest brand recognition of this or any industry. Disney+ and Apple TV+ both launched over the past two weeks, following what...
Tags: cloud computing, cloud, enterprise networks, network management, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, Apple TV plus, Apple TV, Apple, Disney plus, Disney, streaming wars, streaming
Vendors and service providers frequently tout their products as “carrier-grade.” But what does this label actually entail, and is there a specific criteria a tool must meet to earn the title? For starters, there is no official designation or industry standard (ala MEF) for what makes a product or service “carrier-grade.” There is, however, a general consensus among leaders in...
Tags: network performance monitoring, network performance, network management, network, carrier grade, carrier, ISP, internet service provider, internet, cloud computing
As with seemingly everything in the retail sector these days, Amazon tends to lead the pack in bringing innovative solutions to its customers and workers. This includes launching a recent telehealth pilot, Amazon Care, designed to better serve employees who otherwise may not have easy access to many standard health services. Now Walmart, the number two e-commerce giant, is following...
Tags: SaaS, cloud computing, network management, network performance monitoring, network, healthcare, Amazon care, Amazon, walmart, telehealth
According to a recent survey that looked at the number of devices students are using to access the Internet on campus, 61 percent of students are using tablets, 27 percent are using smartwatches and 25 percent are using gaming consoles – all on top of the laptops used by virtually every member of the campus community, not to mention the...
Tags: apps, app monitoring, SaaS monitoring, SaaS apps, SaaS, cloud computing, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, campus WAN, campus network
With internet connectivity playing such a pivotal role in business, enterprises can’t afford to accept less-than-stellar performance from the ISPs they partner with. Doing so would set the whole business up for failure – and could paint enterprise IT in a bad light when they might not be at fault for poor performance, despite what the users they support might...
Tags: SLA, service level agreement, performance monitoring, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, cloud computing, cloud provider, internet service provider, ISP
Election season is in full swing in the United States, and perhaps one of the more unexpected talking points to grab headlines following the latest round of debates is the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” — also known commonly in the networking world as Industry 4.0. Politics aside, this “revolution” truly does represent a major shift in the ways we think about...
Tags: cloud, VR, AI, manufacturing, digital transformation, fourth industrial revolution, industry 4.0, automation, cloud computing
Enterprise networks are getting faster and more efficient by the day. But while technology seems to evolve and advance at a breakneck pace these days, the humans in charge of managing new tech aren’t always able to keep up. That’s one of the main takeaways of a recent report from the Uptime Institute, which surveyed thousands of IT pros and...
Tags: cloud computing, cloud, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, developers, human error, data center
The rate of technological change where enterprise networking is concerned seems to accelerate at an ever-faster pace with each passing year. Just a half decade ago, for instance, “cloud-first” (or “Internet-first”) networking – that is, when a business begins leveraging network connectivity that prioritizes cloud and “direct-to-internet” workflows over legacy, hardware-defined networking tech – was still an emerging trend. Now,...
Tags: cloud computing, cloud first, internet only, internet first, cloud migration, enterprise WAN, cloud computing, digital transformation, network performance monitoring
The rate of technological change where enterprise networking is concerned seems to accelerate at an ever-faster pace with each passing year. Just a half decade ago, for instance, “cloud-first” (or “Internet-first”) networking – that is, when a business begins leveraging network connectivity that prioritizes cloud and “direct-to-internet” workflows over legacy, hardware-defined networking tech – was still an emerging trend. Now,...
Tags: cloud computing, cloud first, internet only, internet first, cloud migration, enterprise WAN, cloud computing, digital transformation, network performance monitoring
The days are getting shorter and the nights colder, which means year-end prediction season is upon us again. As 2019 comes to a close, businesses across industries have had to reckon with significant changes driven by digital transformation and a greater reliance on connected technologies to drive business success. But as fast and furious as the rate of change may...
Tags: edge computing, edge, big data and analytics, BDA, big data, CTO, CIO, network monitoring, cloud migration, cloud, cloud computing, SaaS, enterprise technology, enterprise WAN, enterprise IT, 2020 predictions, 2020
As network connectivity becomes increasingly critical to business success in the modern enterprise, ensuring IT and network operations teams have proactive visibility into network performance is essential. Yet a recent survey found that fewer than half of network performance degradations today are discovered by IT before they reach employees or, even worse, customers. According to the survey of 400 end...
Tags: observability, network visibility, return on investment, cloud migration, enterprise WAN, cloud computing, digital transformation, network performance monitoring
Earlier this summer, we unpacked the findings of Accenture’s “Perspective on Cloud Outcomes: Expectation vs. Reality” report, which found that of 200 IT pros polled, hardly one third are satisfied with the results of their cloud migration to date. Now, another report from Accenture is driving the point home that as a new generation of business solutions – namely, cloud...
Tags: cloud migration, digital transformation, ROI, network management, IT solutions, enterprise IT, cloud computing, network performance monitoring
From funky new approaches to interior design to “thinking green” about plastic toiletries, many established hotel brands are going to great lengths to appeal to a new generation of travelers who put “experiences” (read: Instagrammable moments) ahead of material when it comes to spending. But the biggest and most impactful changes that hotel brands are instituting lately go beyond edgy...
Tags: digital transformation, digital first, selfie, network technology, citizenM, moxy, hospitality industry, cloud computing, Boston, hospitality, hotel industry, microhotel, micro hotel, network performance monitoring
According to recent data from analyst firm Atos, banks can increase their operating profits by 30 percent through 2020 by embracing more digital workflows. In particular, hybrid cloud is proving to be the preferred avenue for digital transformation in the finance world, as hybrid helps level the playing field between traditional banks and a slew of digital disruptors. When discussing...
Tags: enterprise WAN, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, financial services, banks, finace, cloud computing, hybrid cloud
A decade back, before cell phones became “smart” and armed almost every man, woman and child with a full-fledged, pocket-sized PC, network management teams were able to set and enforce fairly predictable use policies for employee devices. After all, it was (and remains) common for IT to supply computers to employees, while intelligent mobile devices (usually Blackberries, which were hardly...
Tags: cloud computing, smartphones, tablets, smartphone, bring your own device, network performance monitoring, network management and monitoring, application management, device management, byod, digital transformation
The start of the school year can be daunting under any circumstances. But for students in Northwest Florida, this fall marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Michael, one of the most damaging hurricanes on record and the first Category 5 to reach the U.S. mainland since 1992. For many in this corner of the state, memories of the Michael are...
Tags: hurricane michael, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, cloud computing, telehealth connectivity, academic network, school network, telehealth, digital transformation
Any major network – especially a highly distributed one – that fails to change with the times is bound to pay a price. And while concepts like digital transformation are generally applied to industry verticals in the quest for greater business outcomes (and ultimately profits), the same principles can be applied to the sphere of education as a means to...
Tags: cloud computing, university network, college network, cloud computing, big data and analytics, network performance monitoring, campus technology, university, college, digital transformation
Any major network – especially a highly distributed one – that fails to change with the times is bound to pay a price. And while concepts like digital transformation are generally applied to industry verticals in the quest for greater business outcomes (and ultimately profits), the same principles can be applied to the sphere of education as a means to...
Tags: cloud computing, university network, college network, cloud computing, big data and analytics, network performance monitoring, campus technology, university, college, digital transformation
We’ve said it before and we’ll keep on saying it: Undertaking any changes–big or small–to your network without having a data-driven strategy is a recipe for failure. But the message to date seems to be falling on deaf ears at many mature finance and telecom companies, as fewer than 35 percent of the IT leaders in this sector rely on...
Tags: digital transformation, ROI, CIO, enterprise IT, cloud computing, network performance monitoring, cloud migration
Consumers are well aware of how connected technologies are speeding up the delivery of goods and services, enabling new and diverse methods for communication and even breaking down the geographical barriers to where and how they work. But when it comes to the production of those goods consumers can order with just a few taps on their smartphone (and even...
Tags: network performance monitoring, manufacturing, IoT, industry 4.0, industrial revolution, industrial IoT, IIoT, cloud computing, big data analytics, big data, automation
According to a recent Salesforce report, 71 percent of enterprise IT teams are transforming from “a technology-providing cost center to a value-based service brokerage.” What does that mean exactly? For starters, the IT department of the past was very much a reactionary operation. That’s not to say that IT teams were always playing catch up, but actually the opposite: The...
Tags: web apps, web applications, SaaS, network performance monitoring, network monitoring, enterprise network monitoring, enterprise IT, cloud computing, cloud
Between The Master’s and The Women’s World Cup, sports fans have had a lot of mid-day distractions lately. And while it’s not a sport in the traditional sense, the impending Democratic presidential debates present yet another heated competition that is likely to have many office workers switching back-and-forth between live streams over the coming months. Mixing work and politics is...
Tags: 2020 election, cloud computing, democratic debate, enterprise IT, enterprise network, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, presidential debate, streaming video
When it comes to working in tech, being in the “right zipcode” is no longer the barrier to entry that it was in years past, a report from CompTIA suggests. In the company’s Tech on the Move survey, 78 percent of tech workers polled would consider leaving their current city for a new tech job, with affordability (60 percent) and...
Tags: branch office, cloud, cloud computing, network monitoring, network monitoring tools, network performance monitoring, remote locations, remote work, remote workers, tech workers
Reports show that only a third of cloud migrations are being executed successfully
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A recent Accenture survey of enterprise tech pros found that only one third of companies that have undergone cloud migration are reaping the expected results. The report, which received feedback from roughly 200 IT pros, emphasizes a “tale as old as time” about adopting any kind of new technology or workflow: Expectations can quickly get inflated when they aren’t rooted...
Tags: cloud adoption, cloud computing, cloud migration, data, data storage, enterprise IT, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, networking hardware
Google recently published an eye-opening report that looked at the impact of remote work on large organizations, a topic the behemoth search engine-cum-tech monolith is well suited to explore. After all, according to the company, at least 30 percent of all meetings held between employees involve at least two time zones. That makes sense when you consider that 2 in...
Tags: cloud computing, decentralized business, distributed enterprise, enterprise IT, Google, IT, network performance monitoring, NPM, NPMD, remote office, remote work, remote worker
According to the findings of our 2019 State of Enterprise IT report, only 53.5% of all enterprises are knowingly employing a network performance monitoring solution. That means that despite the fact that enterprises the world over are, by and large, overhauling their legacy networks to embrace enterprise decentralization, only about half of IT teams are even sure they have a...
Tags: cloud computing, cloud migration, digital transformation, enterprise IT, IT challenges, network performance monitoring, network performance monitoring and diagnostics, SaaS, State of Enterprise IT, ucaas
When the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went live a year ago, companies across the globe were bracing for the sky to fall. And while there were certainly some headline-grabbing fines for noncompliance (most notably, Google’s almost 50 million Euro hit this past January related to “forced consent”), the mandate’s first year was far less “doom and gloom”...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, compliance, EU, European Union, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, regulatory technology
According to a recent report from Gartner, anywhere from 20 to 50 percent of enterprise app spending takes place “in the shadows” -- that is, without the knowledge of enterprise IT, and potentially in violation of network policies. Known as “Shadow IT,” the rogue use of apps that leverage WAN capacity has exploded alongside the widespread adoption of SaaS for...
Tags: applications, cloud computing, enterprise IT, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, SaaS, shadow IT, WAN, web apps
Last week, the AppNeta team traveled down to Dallas for ONUG Spring 2019, where we met with other leaders in the enterprise networking space to discuss the challenges and solutions organizations face as they put connected technologies front-and-center. The agenda for the event zeroed in on Digital Transformation in particular, which, as a concept, can be loaded. As we’ve discussed...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, cloud migration, digital transformation, network performance, network performance monitoring, network performance monitoring and diagnostics, ONUG, ONUG Spring 2019
Remote work is by no means a new concept, but recent high-profile announcements suggest that this model is fast graduating from “a novel approach” to an operational standard across industries. At Facebook’s recent F8 2019 developer conference, for instance, Stripe, a tech platform that builds economic infrastructure for web companies, announced that the company would be opening up a fifth...
Tags: branch office, cloud, cloud computing, cloud monitoring, digital transformation, network performance, network performance monitoring, remote office, remote work
While consensus over what digital transformation actually means still appears to elude many members of the C-Suite, enterprise investment into the concept has never been higher, according to a recent report from IDC. Across virtually every industry and sector, total spending on digital transformation will jump roughly 18 percent in 2019 to a new high-water mark of $1.18 trillion. Gearing...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, digital transformation, finance, industrial IoT, industry 4.0, IoT, manufacturing, network monitoring, network performance, network performance monitoring, tech industry
Network monitoring solutions, by design, should help bring clarity into your management stack. Armed with this clarity, your team can start taking rote tasks out of your day-to-day to help streamline network management from the ground up. Every convenience we can provide -- no matter the scale -- to help speed up deployment or make AppNeta Performance Manager easier to...
Tags: AppNeta Performance Manager, cloud, cloud computing, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, SaaS, SaaS scripts, templates
Cloud-based call centers have gone from risky experiments to a business standard over the course of the last decade. According to research from IDG, 62.4 percent of global enterprises now use cloud (or virtual) contact centers to facilitate their customer service and outreach operations, and for good reason. For starters, this reflects an overall trend of enterprise decentralization, where companies...
Tags: call center, cloud call center, cloud computing, cloud contact center, contact center, network performance, network performance monitoring, virtual call center, virtual contact center
In an age when “appointment television” is a nearly-dead concept (outside of Game of Thrones at least), people still go out of their way to make sure they catch their favorite team or player live. We’ve seen it firsthand here at AppNeta. Take the latest Masters Tournament: Ahead of Tiger Woods taking home his first title trophy in over a...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, cloud monitoring, network, network capacity, network monitoring, network performance, network performance monitoring, sports streaming, streaming, streaming services
What is digital transformation, exactly? If you ask senior enterprise leaders who took part in a recent report from CompleteSpectrum, you’ll be hard pressed to get a straight answer. According to the study, which polled 300 members of leadership teams at companies with between $15 million and $200 million in annual revenue, 94 percent said that digital transformation was a...
Tags: cloud computing, digital transformation, enterprise, enterprise leaders, network management, network monitoring, network performance monitoring
Last week, the AppNeta team took to the Great White North to host an industry luncheon and panel in Toronto, looking at the challenges of network management as cloud takes on a bigger role in the enterprise space. Moderated by our own Chief Customer Officer Adam Edwards, the panel also included John Menezes, President & CEO of Stratejm, Alfred Ng,...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, cloud visibility, enterprise, enterprise network, finance, finance tech, industry commentary, network performance, network performance monitoring, tech industry, toronto
Buckle up, IT pros, and move over SDN: Intent-based networking (IBN) is the latest approach to network management that’s buzzing in the enterprise space. While this acronym may not be as familiar as others that have come to define IT ops and digital transformation (think SD-WAN and SaaS), it’s not actually an entirely new approach. In fact, IBN shares a...
Tags: cloud computing, IBN, intent based networking, network monitoring, network performance monitoring, networking technology, SDN, SDWAN, software defined networking
A new report from EMA, a leading IT and data management research group, found that roughly 75 percent of network managers polled think their network performance monitoring (NPM) tools are “insufficient” when it comes to the public cloud. Barely a quarter of those polled believe the tools they currently use fully address their monitoring needs where cloud monitoring is concerned,...
Tags: cloud computing, hybrid cloud, network management, network monitoring, network performance, network performance monitoring, public cloud, SaaS, SaaS monitoring
IPv4, the previous and still prevalent generation of the Internet Protocol, was designed to support roughly 4.3 billion devices. While this was plenty of capacity for the connected world of 1980, it’s tiny by 2019 standards. While it’s not yet true that every one of the planet’s 7 billion people is armed with their own connected devices, it’s increasingly true...
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, internet protocol, IP, ipv4, IPv6, network performance, network performance monitoring
Hot on the heels of our recently introduced DNS monitoring capabilities, we’re excited to announce that we’ve enhanced AppNeta Performance Manager’s Route Visualization capabilities with BGP data, adding greater context to the insights within the platform’s Delivery dashboard. Our new Route Visualization brings you the big picture. You can see how DNS, content delivery networks, and BGP work together to...
Tags: BGP, BGP monitoring, cloud computing, DNS, network performance, network performance monitoring, SD WAN, WAN
There’s no denying that the SD-WAN market is having a moment. After sliding into the Trough of Disillusionment on the 2017 Gartner Hype Cycle, SD-WAN was firmly on the Slope of Enlightenment for 2018, and continues to build both momentum and advocacy as the decade comes to a close. What’s attractive about SD-WAN is that it doesn’t force teams to...
Tags: cloud, cloud analytics, cloud computing, cloud performance, network performance monitoring, NPM, NPMD, SD WAN, SD WAN monitoring, SDWAN, software defined, software defined networking
It’s a foregone conclusion that the future of enterprise business rests in the cloud. This is especially true when considering what a huge role cloud migration has played within the enterprise space over just the past few years: Spending on cloud computing has grown at 4.5 times the rate of IT spending since 2009, and is expected to grow at...
Tags: cloud adoption, cloud computing, cloud infrastructure, cloud migration, enterprise IT, IT, network monitoring, network performance, network performance monitoring, SaaS, SaaS applications
Cloud Providers Innovate, Build and Cash In
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Christine Cignoli
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In this brave new world of running businesses with cloud and SaaS technology, who’s buying hardware anymore? Well, cloud providers, that’s who. Financial filings from AWS, Microsoft and Google show they spent a combined $31.54 billion on capital expenditures and capital leases in 2016. Amazon is building a new cloud region in Sweden, and analysts say one region alone can...
Serverless Computing—The Latest “as a Service” Offering
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Joe Michalowski
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We’d all like to fulfill that “find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” cliché. But in reality, every job (even if it’s our dream job) comes with its downsides. For you, the constant fight against shadow IT might get on your last nerves. For your developer coworkers, infrastructure management is the roadblock that...
5 Cloud Computing Tips to Put Time (and Money) on Your Side
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Kristen Ramos
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As your business grows, your technology requirements—and likely your physical footprint—will grow along with it. Improving infrastructure often means increased expenses due to additional physical data centers, expanded network capacity and improved server efficiency. Many organizations turn to the cloud as a less costly way to get better technology. Whether you've already made the leap to the cloud or you’re...
Tags: cloud adoption, cloud computing
Is Your IT Career Ready for the Cloud?
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Bree Brouwer
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The IT industry is undergoing a significant evolution to keep up with cloud application demand. We see this happening as a mindset shift, from traditional IT teams to more well-rounded, cloud-focused job roles. The IT industry has become so cloud-minded that Gartner predicts that by 2020, this cloud shift will impact more than $1 trillion of global IT spending. This...
Tags: cloud computing, cloud management and governance, IT jobs
Go Cloud or Go Home
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Christine Cignoli
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‘Tis the season for technology predictions in 2017. This one goes in-depth on the job skills that will be most important in the year ahead. There’s nothing too extreme (we’re not actually hiring robots yet) but mobile and big data jobs, two trends a few years back, are at the bottom of this top ten list. Programmers and help desk...
What Goes into a Cloud Services SLA?
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Joe Michalowski
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How many cloud services SLAs do you have in place today? As cloud services continue to drive your business, the number will grow and you might become numb to SLA fine print. However, it’s important to ensure each SLA has your best interests in mind. Don’t settle for just any cloud services SLA. Know what should be included in the...
Tags: cloud computing, cloud services SLA, service level agreement
Cloud-Native Apps Will Rule the World
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Christine Cignoli
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We’ve come across a lot of talk about “cloud-native” apps lately. (They even have their own foundation!) Developers build these apps specifically to run on a cloud-based infrastructure, with the kind of user interface we all expect from our apps now. Cloud-native applications are scalable, usable and flexible, usually packaged using containers. It’s a step further in the cloud computing journey,...
Weekly Packet: Cloudy with a Chance of Innovation
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Christine Cignoli
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Cloud adoption just keeps increasing, with more to come, according to this recent IDG cloud survey. They found that the average company has 45% of their IT environment in the cloud, and that by the end of 2017, the average company expects it’ll be closer to 59%. With all those numbers in hand and other signs that cloud computing is...
Weekly Packet: R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Find Out What It Means to IT
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Christine Cignoli
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This week brought a few great stories about IT gaining more respect as a critical part of business success. First, this Forbes story takes a detailed look at IT jobs and the cloud to delve into how IT’s role is becoming more clear. It’s a reminder that we’re moving past the initial “cloud will take my job” fear that came...
Weekly Packet: IT Daydreams and Cloud Buzzkills
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Christine Cignoli
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We came across a new IT buzzword this week: immutable infrastructure. The concept is that infrastructure components get replaced wholesale—essentially a new build or deployment whenever a change or fix is needed. So, no patching needed! It’s a way to move toward easier infrastructure automation, and cloud computing can allow it room to really develop. Good thing, since adoption of...
Tags: cloud computing, network speed
Weekly Packet: Let the Robots Do the Work
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Christine Cignoli
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It’s the Friday before Labor Day weekend in the U.S., which is a day to specifically not labor at all. But here’s a fun fact: Labor Day was created not as a day of rest for workers but actually as a day to honor the contributions workers have made to the well-being of the U.S. So give yourself a pat...
Tags: artificial intelligence, cloud computing, hybrid cloud
Mo' Monitoring, Mo' Problems
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Christine Cignoli
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For someone who writes a lot about technology, I am still a Luddite of sorts (Pokemon Go? No thank you. I’ve lost enough of my actual possessions inside my house without adding imaginary floating orb things). So when I read that hybrid cloud spending is on the rise this year, I was surprised when I saw how many huge enterprises...
Tags: cloud computing, data center, hybrid cloud
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