Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

October 2023

Got Ghosts in Your Enterprise Network?

Shining a light on the dark corners of the new enterprise network doesn't have to be as scary or overwhelming as some think. While “ghost issues” typically lurk in these sometimes unexplored places on the internet or in cloud environments, during this Halloween season your network operations teams can gain the confidence to not only uncover these network ghosts, but compel and cast them out forever.

SD-WAN Performance and User Experience: Gaining Unified Visibility with DX NetOps

As the use of SD-WAN continues to expand, benefits and challenges may seem to be proliferating in equal measure as well. In this post, we look at some of the advantages and obstacles presented by SD-WAN, and we detail how DX NetOps by Broadcom delivers the visibility teams need to monitor and manage their SD-WAN and legacy network environments.

Gain the Visibility Needed to Hold Last-Mile ISPs Accountable: How AppNeta Can Help

In relatively short order, the adoption of cloud services and hybrid work models went from exception to ubiquity. This has fundamentally changed the nature of the networks users rely upon—and created an entirely new set of challenges for IT and network operations teams. More than ever, business services and interactions are reliant upon network connectivity that spans a diverse mix of the public internet and third-party networks.

How AppNeta Passive Monitoring and Deep Packet Inspection Speeds Troubleshooting

In recent months, we’ve talked a lot about how AppNeta by Broadcom offers active monitoring capabilities, and how they enable teams to rapidly troubleshoot issues across both internally managed networks and those managed by third parties, such as ISPs and cloud providers.

Monitoring Policies: Enabling Scalable, Hands-Free Monitoring

AppNeta by Broadcom will soon offer monitoring policies that streamline monitoring setup and maintenance. Now available for preview, these capabilities will significantly reduce the time and effort required for ongoing operations, especially for customers with large-scale and dynamic sets of monitoring points.

Streamlining Kubernetes Operations with Enterprise Workload Automation

Kubernetes integrations are now available for AutoSys, dSeries, and Automic Automation. It wasn’t that long ago that teams in many organizations started dipping their toes into the world of containers and microservices. It didn’t take long for this approach to application development and orchestration to take hold, and for Kubernetes to emerge as a dominant, broadly used technology.

Upgrade to DX UIM 20.4 CU9 to Leverage New Features and Security Updates

DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) is a powerful solution that enables comprehensive infrastructure observability across your digital ecosystems, including private, public, and hybrid clouds. With DX UIM, you can proactively and efficiently manage the performance and availability of your IT infrastructure and applications. DX UIM 20.4 is the current main branch of the solution. This release offers a number of significant capabilities that weren’t available in earlier versions.

Broadcom Delivers Advanced Network Management Capabilities to Optimize Network Operations, Accelerate Network Transformation and Enhance Connected Experiences

We are pleased to announce the availability of Network Management by Broadcom, which includes DX NetOps 23.3 and AppNeta. It assures end-to-end observability, minimizing the visibility gaps beyond the network borders to Cloud, SaaS, and Sites. The solution provides a unique and industry-leading unified Network Management approach, allowing organizations to optimize network operations, accelerate transformation and enhance connected experiences.

Triangulate: Add Logs to Your Monitoring Mix

For many IT organizations, triaging or troubleshooting starts with assessing symptoms. As practitioners investigate the causal factors by answering each of the “5 whys,” logs are often where the actual root cause answers lie. This is even more true for issues related to configuration changes, change management, and security. However, diving into log data can be overwhelming as a first step due to the high volume and velocity of logs and missing context.