Browsing posts tagged with: network performance monitoring
Ten Questions to Ask After a Network Outage
June 22, 2017 by Sharon Ward
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
A network outage can be disruptive and expensive, so you want to eliminate the causes. This checklist of the top 10 questions to ask after a network outage can help you identify the reasons for an outage and expose any gaps in your monitoring. Ideally, you’ll learn from an outage to prevent others in the…Continue reading
What You Need to Know About SD-WAN Technology
June 6, 2017 by Alec Pinkham
As businesses continue to migrate from expensive and inflexible MPLS network architectures, software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) has emerged as a key technology for managing application and network load over the public internet. It’s particularly good for businesses with a large number of remote locations and an investment in MPLS circuits. What is SD-WAN? Organizations are deploying…Continue reading
How AppNeta Battles Network Bottlenecks
May 30, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
The age-old bottleneck has plagued IT since the first wired connections were made. Network bottlenecks happen when the communication between network endpoints doesn’t have enough capacity to transfer data without overflowing network constraints. The problem could lie on the internal network, internet WAN or in the destination network, but are no longer commonly in the…Continue reading
AppNeta vs. NetFlow: App Identification Without the Overhead
May 24, 2017 by Sean Armstrong
Getting a full picture of applications in use on the network is essential for IT teams today. In the past, NetFlow functionality has been used to see apps in use. NetFlow, and similar technologies like sFlow and jFlow, is typically a router feature that looks at the traffic that’s been sent and received, and then…Continue reading
Cloud Application Monitoring and You
April 5, 2017 by Alec Pinkham
Cloud Computing, Networking Technology
We launched AppNeta Performance Manager recently, and after all our excitement over letting the world know about it, we’re getting down to business here with some more details. The best part about our product (yes, we’re biased) is that it truly does cloud application monitoring. It’s what you’ll need in the stage after the excitement…Continue reading
Don’t Hog the Bandwidth, and Other Network Tips
March 31, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
What’s your bandwidth-consuming vice these days? Maybe March Madness? You’re certainly not alone. Even employees in the very important Pentagon are hooked. The Pentagon’s ISP asked employees to reconsider streaming basketball games in light of the important work their bandwidth is supporting—defending the country and all that. We’re sure they have excellent network monitoring helping…Continue reading
What Gartner Says About AppNeta
March 8, 2017 by Damian Roskill
We were pretty excited here at AppNeta when we got the good news that we got high marks from users in Gartner’s Network Performance Monitoring-Diagnostics category. Gartner’s Critical Capabilities research examines how tech users actually choose and interact with the products they need. The resulting Critical Capabilities document matches industry personas with features, functionality, customer…Continue reading
Why Managing QoS Matters More Than Ever
March 2, 2017 by Christine Cignoli
There are plenty of technology details that have gone through major changes in the cloud era. One networking detail in particular—tracking and managing quality of service (QoS)—is an essential one to master for modern IT. QoS metrics offer a way to mark traffic prioritization over networks in an attempt to guarantee a certain level of…Continue reading
How to Choose a Cloud Provider
February 7, 2017 by Alec Pinkham
Cloud Computing, Industry Insights, Performance Monitoring
When choosing a cloud provider, you can look at brand recognition, security and storage features and other items. But cloud providers depend on networks just like the rest of us, and they’re not all created or configured equal. In general, for those considering the cloud, it’s important to match up the location of your end…Continue reading
Afraid of VoIP in Your Call Center? Lean on Performance Monitoring
January 10, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
Even though mass-market VoIP technology has been available since 2004, adoption rates have proved underwhelming for the last decade. VoIP adoption rates have picked up in recent years, but business-critical use cases such as the call center still seem to lag behind cloud services adoption in other parts of the enterprise. As the era of…Continue reading
