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How to Use Megaport Storage as a Veeam Backup Target

Sep 30, 2026 By Ryan Tucker In Megaport
Learn how to use Megaport Storage as an S3-compatible Veeam backup target for scalable, private, offsite backup storage. Table of Contents A backup is only useful if it can be retrieved when needed. Where backups are stored determines how well they’re protected from incidents at the primary site, how long recovery transfers take, and what it costs to bring the data back.
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motadata

What Is AI Networking? The Two Pillars and Which One You Need

Sep 28, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
AI networking means two different things. Vendors rarely say which one they are selling. One is using AI to run the network you already have. The other is building network infrastructure fast enough to train AI models. Both pillars are real, and they solve completely different problems. Most network teams only ever need the first. In this blog, you will: You will finish knowing which pillar your own question belongs to.
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auvik

Is Your MSP Pricing Model Inhibiting Your Business Growth?

Sep 25, 2026 By Amanda Doucette-Lachapelle In Auvik
One of the questions MSP owners ask most often isn’t about tools or tech. It’s about pricing. Not just what to charge, but something closer to, “Is the way I’m charging actually built to support where I want this business to go?” We’re going to dig into why pricing models matter just as much as service delivery, how the most common approaches help or hurt as MSPs scale, and what to look at when margins feel tighter than they should.
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Latest Log Management Strategies in 2026: From Raw Logs to Business Value

Sep 25, 2026 By Motadata In Motadata
Discover the latest log management strategies for 2026 and learn how AI and automation turn raw logs into actionable insights. See how modern log management can reduce investigation time, improve incident response, control costs, and strengthen visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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obkio

How to Monitor Bandwidth Usage: Techniques, Tools & Troubleshooting

Sep 25, 2026 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
Your Internet link averages 40% utilization, yet users still complain that calls drop and SaaS apps crawl every morning at 9:00. Averages are where bandwidth problems hide. A five-minute polling interval can smooth a 30-second saturation spike into a flat, healthy-looking line. A total-usage graph also won't tell you whether the traffic is a backup job, a compromised endpoint, or an ISP delivering less than you're paying for.
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auvik

How to Scale an MSP Team That Won't Break

Sep 25, 2026 By Amanda Doucette-Lachapelle In Auvik
Every MSP hits a point where the business is growing, the work is technically getting done, and it still somehow feels worse than it did a year ago. Tickets slip through. Two techs touch the same escalation, and neither one closes it. Your best engineer is doing a password reset at 4:45 on a Friday because nobody else picked it up.
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motadata

How to Check Bandwidth Usage Across Your Network

Sep 24, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Most bandwidth problems get investigated after the complaints arrive, and by then the traffic that caused them has moved on. The numbers you need sit in several places at once. A laptop knows its own traffic. The router knows what leaves for the internet, and only the switches see how much network bandwidth moves inside the building. Checking bandwidth usage at the right layer saves hours of guessing. Most of the methods ship with hardware you already own.
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motadata

What is a CRC Error and How to Find the Faulty Link Before It Slows the Business

Sep 24, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
Why does a switch port look healthy on every dashboard while people on that floor keep reporting dropped calls and slow file transfers? Often the cause is CRC errors, a port counter that most dashboards do not show by default. Each CRC error means a unit of data arrived damaged and the switch discarded it. Put simply, a CRC error tells you the receiving device noticed the data changed somewhere in transit.
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The Human Side of Innovation: Sheetal Kalra on Trust, Simplicity, and SolarWinds in Africa

Sep 24, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
"Channel is the heartbeat of any vendor conversation...if your product is not good, the channel is not going to be doing the miracle." In this episode of SolarWinds World Tour Conversations, we sit down with Sheetal Kalra, Regional Channel Manager for META, to discuss why a strong channel ecosystem is essential for bringing in strong customers. We explore the technology-driven nature of channel sales, the 2026 modifications to simplify the Partner Program, and how partners are successfully navigating network and observability challenges for their clients.
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ITSM to Deep Observability with ServiceOps & ObserveOps | Motadata Webinar

Sep 24, 2026 By Motadata In Motadata
In this webinar recording, discover how ServiceOps and ObserveOps connect IT service management with deep observability. Learn how IT teams can identify root causes faster with unified visibility across incidents, metrics, logs, traces, applications, and infrastructure. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe for more insights on ITSM, observability, AIOps, and IT operations.
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whatsup gold

Best Practices for Effective Healthcare Networks

Sep 24, 2026 By Greg Collins In WhatsUp Gold
An effective healthcare network is the IT infrastructure that keeps clinical and operational services reachable, responsive and diagnosable across hospitals, clinics, imaging centers, laboratories, remote sites, cloud services and vendor connections. A device can be up while Electronic Health Record (EHR) access, Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) retrieval, telehealth or a wireless clinical workflow is still slow or unavailable.
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motadata

What Is a Network Topology Diagram? Types, Examples and How to Build One That Stays Current

Sep 22, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Most network diagrams are accurate exactly once: the day they are finished. The network keeps changing, the drawing does not, and the gap shows up during the next outage. According to the Uptime Institute Annual Outage Analysis 2026, failure to follow established procedures remains the leading driver of human-error outages. A wrong diagram is how a right procedure hits the wrong port. The fix is a network topology diagram that matches the live network topology.
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obkio

What Is a Network Interface (and Why Your Monitoring Tool Should Care)

Sep 22, 2026 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
A user opens a ticket: "The Internet is slow." IT checks the network. Bandwidth looks fine, no outages, no alerts firing. They check with the ISP, but nothing on their end either. Everything upstream checks out, and yet the user is still stuck watching a spinning wheel. What rarely gets checked is the one component sitting closest to the problem: the machine's own network interface.
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Upgrading the Operations Tech Stack at the Edge of Supply Chains

Upgrading the Operations Tech Stack at the Edge of Supply Chains

Sep 22, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Warehouse management systems (WMS) and resource planning (ERP) platforms have undergone massive architectural shifts over the last decade. Microservices, event-driven cloud architectures, and real-time database synchronization have transformed how logistics organizations manage inventory levels, calculate safety stock, and track order fulfillment. Yet, despite millions invested in core IT infrastructure, operations architects frequently encounter a persistent data blind spot at the physical perimeter of the supply chain network: the loading dock.
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motadata

How to Find and Fix Packet Loss Before It Reaches Your Users

Sep 21, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
Why do the same complaints about call quality and slow file transfers keep coming back after the network has been checked and declared healthy? Packet loss is usually the answer, and it survives investigation because it degrades the services people use without taking anything offline. That combination makes it expensive. Equipment gets rebooted, cables get replaced, and tickets go to the internet service provider, often with nobody knowing which segment of the path is discarding traffic.
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haproxy

How to prove your HAProxy build is legitimate

Sep 21, 2026 By Ron Northcutt In HAProxy
On September 4, Rapid7 Labs published research on a Linux espionage toolkit found at two organizations in South Korea. The centerpiece is a backdoor the researchers call "Ted," which was hidden inside a modified HAProxy build running on the victims' load balancers. Rapid7 attributes the campaign to North Korean state-sponsored actors with medium confidence. The same toolkit tampered with multiple tools across the victims' systems, including an SSH keylogger.
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megaport

Predictable Cloud Egress Is Finally Here: How Megaport Unlocks It All

Sep 21, 2026 By Steve Tu In Megaport
Discover how AWS Direct Connect flat-rate pricing makes cloud egress predictable and how Megaport enables high-volume data migration. AWS has announced flat-rate pricing for Direct Connect, bringing more predictable egress costs to eligible 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps Dedicated Connections. Here’s what the new egress pricing model means for bulk data migration, plus how Megaport helps you make the most of it with private connectivity to the storage and compute your workloads need.
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tidal

New in LightMesh: Cisco Meraki Integration

Sep 21, 2026 By Amber Weaver In Tidal
Some features start on a roadmap. Others start with a recurring customer request: Can LightMesh connect to Meraki? That request kept coming up. Now the answer is yes. LightMesh supports Meraki sites with multiple VLANs or a single LAN through the new cloud integration for Cisco Meraki. Appliance addressing from Dashboard syncs into LightMesh as subnets (with VLAN ID when Meraki provides one), and device or client LAN IPs only when they fall inside those CIDRs.
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motadata

What Is Network Design? Steps and Best Practices for Growing Networks

Sep 21, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Most networks were never designed. They were extended, one switch and one VLAN at a time, until a single core failure took the site down and nobody could find the diagram. According to the Uptime Institute Annual Outage Analysis 2026, 57 percent of organizations said their most recent major outage cost more than $100,000. Network design is how you stop paying that bill. You decide the network topology, the addressing and the hardware on purpose, before the cabling goes in.
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Internxt

The Best Black Friday VPN Deals of 2026

Sep 18, 2026 By Nathan James Turner In Internxt
Looking for the best VPN Black Friday deals of the year? Then you’ve come to the right place! Internxt VPN is included with all our paid plans, which also include encrypted cloud storage, for a massive 87% off. Not only do you get a VPN, but you can also choose from a privacy suite to get everything you need to protect your privacy online this Black Friday. Interested? Find out the pricing of our Black Friday deals, features, storage, and more below.
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motadata

How to Troubleshoot VPN Problems and Keep Remote Access Running

Sep 18, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
Why does the VPN work for most of the company while one branch office, or a handful of remote staff, reports that it won't connect or crawls the moment they sign in? The difficulty with VPN troubleshooting is that the tunnel relies on every layer below it. If the laptop, home Wi-Fi, internet route, gateway, or security policy on either end misbehaves, the connection suffers. One complaint about a slow file share could originate at any of those points.
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obkio

High Bandwidth Usage on Firewalls: How to Diagnose & Fix It

Sep 17, 2026 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
If your network has been feeling sluggish, connections keep dropping, or you're getting alerts that don't point to an obvious cause, high bandwidth usage is one of the most common culprits and one of the hardest to pin down without the right visibility. The tricky part is that "slow network" can mean a dozen different things depending on where the congestion is actually happening.
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megaport

Why India Belongs on Your Network Roadmap

Sep 16, 2026 By Matt Simpson In Megaport
India is the world's fourth-largest economy and accelerating fast. Here's why it should be on your network roadmap. Few markets combine scale, speed, and government intent the way India does right now. With a digital economy on track to reach USD $1 trillion by 2030, hyperscalers committing tens of billions in fresh investment, and connectivity infrastructure undergoing a generational upgrade, India has become one of the most consequential expansion decisions a technology business can make.
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flowmon

What is New in Flowmon 13.1 and Flowmon ADS 13.1

Sep 16, 2026 By Filip Cerny In Flowmon
Improvements to the Progress Flowmon product family continue, and we are pleased to announce the release of Flowmon 13.1. The latest 13.1 release builds on the strong foundations we laid in Flowmon 13. Headline enhancements include a rebuilt visualization layer, automated investigation workflows and a set of AI-assisted capabilities in the Flowmon Anomaly Detection System (ADS). And the Flowmon team is eager to share how your team can utilize these new capabilities.
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motadata

How Traceroute Works and How to Read Its Output During an Outage

Sep 15, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
Users report that an internal application has gone slow, the server dashboards look normal, and the network group says nothing changed on their side. So where between the user and the application does the time actually go? Much of that answer comes from traceroute. The command lists every router a packet crosses on the way to its destination, with a timing figure set against each one. Arguments about ownership then come down to a single device on a single route.
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IT Pro Day 2026 | Every Day is Game Day

Sep 15, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
IT Pro Day isn’t just a day. It’s GAME DAY. The lights are on, the gear is ready, and IT Pros everywhere are locked in. At SolarWinds we celebrate the people who keep technology running, problems solved, and businesses moving. Because when the network goes down, the pressure is on. When systems need saving, IT Pros show up. Happy IT Pro Day from SolarWinds!
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speedscale

eBPF: Correlating rustls Plaintext to TCP Connections Without a File Descriptor

Sep 14, 2026 By Shaun Duncan In Speedscale
In Under the Hood with Go TLS and eBPF, I left socket tracking as an exercise for later. The example used bpf_get_current_pid_tgid() and explicitly excluded concurrent TLS operations. Capturing plaintext was enough for that post. With rustls, later arrived: I could read the HTTP payload perfectly and still attach it to the wrong TCP connection. That’s a frustratingly convincing failure. The request looks right. The response looks right. The application works.
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Are AI agents about to break cloud computing?

Sep 14, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
AI agents can write code and run tools on their own now. The problem is they still need somewhere to actually do it. exe.dev's David Crawshaw joins Michael Reid to break down why persistent virtual machines might become the backbone of agentic AI, and what happens to cloud economics when one person is running dozens of agents at once.
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megaport

What Is Immutable Backup and Why Does It Matter for Ransomware Recovery?

Sep 14, 2026 By Ryan Tucker In Megaport
Learn how immutable backups protect data from deletion, encryption, and ransomware attacks so organizations can recover clean copies. Table of Contents Ransomware attacks are a major threat to modern organizations. Cybercriminals encrypt an organization’s data and demand payments to restore access to it. Modern ransomware also attempts to destroy existing backup files to prevent recovery. Therefore, you must protect backup targets with strong data isolation controls.
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logicmonitor

A Better Way to Monitor Every Digital Journey with LogicMonitor Synthetics and Internet Performance Monitoring

Sep 14, 2026 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
LogicMonitor Synthetics and Internet Performance Monitoring helps ITOps teams catch digital experience issues earlier with outside-in visibility across apps, networks, APIs, and SaaS.
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datadog

Understanding NetFlow duplication: Why it happens, and how to deduplicate

Sep 11, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
NetFlow is a popular network protocol for collecting metadata about traffic flows across your environment so that it can be exported for analysis and monitoring. One of the most common issues that users encounter is NetFlow duplication, which occurs when identical flow records from the same conversation are recorded from different sources. Flow duplication inflates traffic data, undermining capacity planning and making top-talker rankings unreliable.
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motadata

10 Top Network Traffic Analysis Tools for Faster Troubleshooting and Capacity Planning

Sep 11, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
A request to upgrade a saturated circuit is easy to raise and hard to defend. The interface graph proves the link is full. It says nothing about which application, host or conversation filled it, so the spend gets approved on assumption instead of evidence. The same missing detail turns up everywhere else. Incidents run long because the cause is guessed at, capacity planning rests on estimates, and security questions arrive weeks after the traffic record expired.
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megaport

Megaport Collaborates With NVIDIA to Boost AI in Australia

Sep 10, 2026 By Michael Reid In Megaport
Australia’s home-grown global automated infrastructure platform is part of a cohort of companies with Australian operations that will provide regional businesses and institutions access to NVIDIA accelerated computing and NVIDIA Nemotron open models. It’s a point of pride for all of us at Megaport that we’ve built a global automated infrastructure platform while maintaining our deep Australian roots.
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The network layer securing your multicloud traffic

Sep 10, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
You migrated the workload. The app's live across clouds. But is the traffic between them actually locked down, or just assumed to be? There's a layer of the network doing the heavy lifting here, and it goes by a name that gets confused with something else constantly. Full breakdown on our blog, link in bio.
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console connect

What is IP transit and how does it work?

Sep 9, 2026 By Lily Bennett In Console Connect
The Internet may feel like a single, seamless network but behind every connection is a vast web of interconnected networks. For businesses, Internet service providers (ISPs) and other network operators, reaching users and services around the world depends on how efficiently traffic can move between these networks. This is where IP transit comes in.
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selector

On a Network, an Agent Acts Where the Blast Radius Is Largest

Sep 9, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
Every network engineer carries an instinct that outsiders mistake for caution: a change in one place can travel. Reroute a path, push a policy, drop an interface, and the effect can ripple across campus, data center, WAN, and cloud before the first alert is read. The blast radius of a network change is the reason operators move deliberately, and it is the single most important thing an AI agent takes on the moment it is allowed to act on the network instead of merely describe it.
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The VM Boom For AI Agents | David Crawshaw Co-Founder & CEO, exe.dev

Sep 8, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
What happens when AI agents stop simply answering questions and start using computers of their own? It could create an entirely new boom in virtual machines. In this episode of Uplink, David Crawshaw, Co-Founder and CEO of exe.dev, joins host Michael Reid to explore the infrastructure behind the rapidly emerging world of AI agents. As agents become capable of writing code, running applications, operating tools, maintaining state, and working independently, they need more than access to an AI model. They need computing environments where they can actually get work done.
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megaport

What Is RPO and How Can You Reduce It to Minutes?

Sep 8, 2026 By Morgan Wang In Megaport
Learn what RPO means, how it differs from RTO, and how faster backup storage can help reduce data loss after disruption. When designing a backup and disaster recovery strategy, organizations often simply ask how quickly they can recover. But a more important question to ask is how much data they can afford to lose. Backups are only as useful as the point in time they can return you to. If a payment system fails at 2 p.m.
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megaport

What is Backup and Disaster Recovery? A Complete Guide

Sep 7, 2026 By Serena Toh In Megaport
Learn what backup and disaster recovery means, how BDR works, and why it matters for reducing downtime and data loss. Backup and disaster recovery (BDR) is what keeps data loss from becoming a business-wide catastrophe. And to protect their business, IT teams need to ask if they can recover the right data, in the right order, fast enough for the business to keep operating. A backup can preserve a copy of a file, database, or workload, but disaster recovery is what brings the wider service back online.
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What is IPsec?

Sep 4, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
Our Megaport technical expert, Steve Tu explains what IPsec is, how it secures network traffic, and where it’s used across VPN and cloud connectivity. About Megaport Deploying infrastructure should be fast and simple. Megaport’s software-defined platform provides private compute, network, and storage — so you can build secure, scalable infrastructure for cloud, enterprise, and global AI inference workloads. Trusted by the world’s leading enterprises, Megaport operates across 1,200+ enabled locations globally.
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c1

Why Campus Network Transformation is a Strategic Advantage

Sep 3, 2026 By Perry Heliger In C1
For years, the campus network was largely invisible. Students expected to connect to Wi-Fi before class. Faculty logged into learning management systems without thinking about the infrastructure supporting them. Researchers transferred data, administrators processed financial aid, and campus operations continued uninterrupted because the network quietly did its job. When it worked, nobody noticed. When it didn't, IT received a flood of help desk tickets. That dynamic has fundamentally changed.
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Outrun the Threat Window: AI-accelerated Vulnerability and Patch Management

Sep 2, 2026 By N-able In N-able
The gap between vulnerability disclosure and active exploitation is shrinking—often from weeks to mere hours. Traditional patching cycles no longer cut it. In this session, discover how AI-accelerated solutions can help you: Identify exposed assets faster Prioritize vulnerabilities by real-world risk Remediate across Windows, macOS, Linux, and hundreds of apps Verify success with a connected workflow Learn how our approach, powered by AI-driven insights and automation, can help you close the gap before attackers strike. Watch now and take control of your patch management.
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Kentik

Latest BGP Hijack Targets Hosting Software Vendor

Sep 2, 2026 By Doug Madory In Kentik
This post analyzes the technical details of the BGP hijack against Softaculous Ltd, the company behind the Softaculous auto-installer and the Virtualizor VM management platform. The hijack enabled an attacker to fraudulently obtain a TLS certificate and use it to deliver a malicious Virtualizor update to a portion of the company’s customer base.
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solarwinds

SAP HANA Monitoring Tools 2026: How to Compare Options and Simplify Monitoring

Sep 2, 2026 By Piotr Pękala In SolarWinds
If your team works with SAP HANA, the main challenge usually isn’t finding another dashboard. The real difficulty is identifying which tool can quickly help you trace vague complaints about slow transactions to their root cause. In many setups, SAP HANA monitoring is divided among native SAP interfaces, cloud monitoring, infrastructure dashboards, and the broader monitoring systems used by the rest of IT. This fragmented approach can slow down root cause analysis.
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megaport

Why Connectivity Is the Next Growth Opportunity for Managed Service Providers

Sep 2, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
Learn how NaaS helps MSPs add connectivity services and respond faster to customers without building a global network. For many Managed Service Providers (MSPs), connectivity is still the part of a customer solution they control the least. An MSP may manage the cloud environment and secure access to it, but adding a circuit can still mean carrier lead times and manual coordination. Options may also narrow when the customer enters a new market. This reality doesn’t match with customer expectations.
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For whoever has to explain the cloud bill to finance every month.

Sep 2, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
As infrastructure gets more complex, with workloads spread across clouds, regions, and providers, every hop your data takes between them adds up. Where do these costs actually come from? Has your team ever traced a surprise bill back to data movement? With Megaport, cloud egress costs are minimized by routing data privately between providers, avoiding the higher transfer rates associated with public internet routing.
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How to Break Into Network Engineering With Network+ and No Prior Experience

How to Break Into Network Engineering With Network+ and No Prior Experience

Sep 2, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Breaking into network engineering can feel difficult when every job posting seems to ask for experience you do not have yet. But experience does not always have to start with a full-time networking role. Certifications, hands-on labs, personal projects, and entry-level IT work can all help you build the foundation employers expect.
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haproxy

AI in the public sector (infrastructure challenges and solutions)

Sep 1, 2026 By Amina Mujkanovic In HAProxy
The U.S. government has cataloged over 1,700 active AI use cases, and nearly 90% of federal agencies are already using or planning to use AI. The European Commission has disclosed nearly 1,500 AI use cases across EU member states. With over 3,200 combined AI use cases cataloged across the US and EU, public sector IT leaders face an identical roadblock: traditional application delivery controllers were not designed to parse or throttle Layer 7 LLM payloads, leading to backend GPU exhaustion.
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