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Why Shift Left? Exploring Cost Efficiency in Agile and Waterfall

Jun 5, 2024 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Watch the full session at: slrwnds.com/TC24 SHIFT LEFT: A Better Approach to DataOps Kevin Kline and Kevin M. Sparenberg You're familiar with DevOps, but have you thought about DataOps? Data Operations is all about breaking down barriers between data managers and data consumers. DevOps is centered on product development, while DataOps shortens the cycle time for analytics and align with organizational goals. In short, DataOps helps you make data-driven decisions.
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Demo: Kentik Network Observability for Hybrid Clouds

Jun 5, 2024 By Kentik In Kentik
In this video, we demonstrate how Kentik provides comprehensive network observability for hybrid cloud environments, encompassing both on-premises and public cloud resources. We start with the Kentik map, showcasing active on-prem sites and cloud environments, then dive into specific examples of how to view and analyze traffic and connectivity. The demo covers how Kentik collects network telemetry from various sources, including AWS VPC flow logs, Azure NSG flow logs, and SNMP, to provide detailed insights into network performance.
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Network Basics: What Is Link Aggregation & How Does It Work?

Jun 5, 2024 By Kevin Dooley In Auvik
Link aggregation is a way of bundling a bunch of individual (Ethernet) links together so they act as a single logical link. A fundamental for effective switch management, if you have a switch with a whole lot of Gigabit Ethernet ports, you can connect all of them to another device that also has a bunch of ports and balance the traffic among these links to improve performance.
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Classful and Classless Addressing Explained

Jun 5, 2024 By Steve Petryschuk In Auvik
If you’ve ever been in charge of IP address assignment, you’ve come across the terms classful and classless addressing. If you haven’t, the main difference between classful and classless addressing is in the subnet length: classful addressing uses fixed-length subnet masks, but classless uses variable length subnet masks (VLSM).
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Network Basics: Spanning Tree Protocol

Jun 4, 2024 By Ethan Banks In Auvik
For new networkers, Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) can be an intimidating topic. Many old-timers speak of spanning-tree in ominous tones, recounting the time when a “spanning-tree loop” brought down the network. Some managers strictly forbid anyone from changing anything related to the spanning tree, fearing a resulting service interruption. Some of the fear surrounding spanning trees is likely based on bad experiences, but some are based on ignorance—at least partly.
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6 Common Spanning Tree Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Jun 4, 2024 By Kevin Dooley In Auvik
Let me start by saying that spanning tree is a Good Thing. It saves you from loops, which will completely shut down a network. But it has to be configured properly to work properly. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had a client call me, desperate with a terribly broken network, and I’ve responded, “Sounds like a spanning tree problem.” There are many ways things can go wrong with spanning tree. In this article, I’ve collected six of the recurring themes.
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