Browsing posts tagged with: remote location monitoring
7 Reasons AppNeta Is the Best Solution for Application and Network Monitoring
September 7, 2017 by Damian Roskill
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
Here’s a bold statement: AppNeta is simply the best solution for monitoring modern web applications and the networks that deliver them. The simple truth is that traditional monitoring tools aren’t designed to provide visibility into applications delivered via the WAN, whether they are internal or third-party SaaS apps. But AppNeta was designed from the ground…Continue reading
How Big Data Causes Big Problems for the WAN
August 31, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
Industry Insights, Networking Technology
Who doesn’t love data these days? For business leaders, the more data you can collect, the better. Some might resist certain technologies in digital transformation, but it seems everyone can agree that big data analytics makes business life easier. Everyone except IT leaders, that is. While business leaders add ever-increasing data inputs with IoT sensors,…Continue reading
Update Your WAN for the IPv6 Transition
August 17, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
No one would blame you if you can’t muster up much enthusiasm for IPv6. After all, IPv6 has been “the future” of internet protocols since its inception in 1998, without much evidence it’s happening. Even though you’ve been reading about the impending downfall of IPv4 since 2007, here we are in 2017 watching adoption just…Continue reading
Living on the Edge (of Your Network) to Optimize Remote Locations
August 9, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
Just as you’re starting to get comfortable with the cloud, IT reporters may have you thinking there’s a new wave about to replace it—edge computing. And as the Internet of Things takes hold in the workplace, moving processing power to the edge will certainly be important. However, there aren’t many businesses that are prepared to…Continue reading
Ghostbusting in Real Time for Remote Offices
July 13, 2017 by Damian Roskill
You’ve just gotten to work when a new support ticket comes in from your company’s San Francisco remote office (you’re at headquarters in Boston). Office 365 was running very slowly yesterday. It’s their third help desk ticket this week, and the others are still unresolved in ServiceNow. Your first move is to call the user,…Continue reading
Do You Have Empathy for Remote Employees?
June 8, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
Networking Technology, Performance Monitoring
The last thing an IT leader needs is more to worry about. Networks are more complicated than ever, and you already have your hands full with new configurations, infrastructure troubleshooting, resource allocation and new tech deployments. But there’s a problem. The business problems you used to let other leaders solve are starting to bleed into…Continue reading
Remote Monitoring With End Users in Mind
May 22, 2017 by Alan Earls
Remote monitoring is an old problem. In fact, it was a challenge 150 years ago with the emergence of the so-called Victorian Internet, the global communication network based on electric telegraphy. That “internet” depended on human monitoring and the most basic kinds of performance measures. Today, no one charged with monitoring distant IT functions at…Continue reading
Location, Location…Latency: Is Your Remote Infrastructure Ready?
May 18, 2017 by Kristen Ramos
Cloud Computing, Performance Monitoring
In today’s increasingly mobile workplace, organizations need to consider productivity, operational efficiency, and business continuity when migrating their employees, data centers and critical applications to the cloud. As new collaboration technologies make productive, remote teamwork possible, businesses can expect their roster of off-site employees to continue to grow. Along with employees working remotely, companies today…Continue reading
Are Your End Users Haunted by Ghosts?
January 23, 2017 by Joe Michalowski
No, that’s not a question for superstitious IT leaders. We’re talking about application performance ghost issues—the bane of IT’s existence. Ghost issues are the ones that come up intermittently to degrade end-user experience, but are often impossible to reproduce, identify and fix. Your IT team might be a great group of problem solvers, but application…Continue reading