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The Impact of Network Downtime on Enterprise Productivity - and How Monitoring Helps

Enterprise IT teams operate under relentless pressure to maintain seamless connectivity, yet many business leaders underestimate the financial gravity of Network Downtime. Studies consistently show that even a brief outage can cost enterprises hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour, positioning downtime as one of the most disruptive threats to business continuity.

Fresh from AWS re:Invent: Supercharging HAProxy Community with AWS-LC Performance Packages

The timing couldn’t have been better. Last week, the tech world descended on Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent. It was the perfect venue to talk about cloud infrastructure, scale, and the future of application delivery. While we enjoyed talking shop at our booth, we didn't just bring swag and demos; we brought a significant performance improvement for our open-source community.

Expert Insight: Why Carrier Neutral Data Centres Give UK Businesses Greater Network Control

The demands placed on digital infrastructure have changed. As businesses expand across regions, adopt cloud platforms, and face stricter compliance requirements, networks must evolve just as fast as the workloads they support. The rise of AI, distributed teams, and latency-sensitive applications has made agility a central requirement for performance and resilience. Without it, costs rise, migrations slow, and continuity becomes harder to guarantee.

Capture and Use Network Response Data in AI Powered Testing

Learn how to capture and use response data from network calls to build smarter and more reliable AI-driven tests. This walkthrough covers the full workflow from configuring user actions to extracting backend responses, validating data, and creating dynamic test flows. You will also see how response data improves debugging visibility and supports data-driven automation. The video includes Ideal for developers, testers, and platform engineers looking to improve the accuracy and resilience of AI-powered test suites.

Sanitizing HTTP/1: a technical deep dive into HAProxy's HTX abstraction layer

HTTP/1.1 is a text-based protocol where the message framing is mixed with its semantics, making it easy to parse incorrectly. The boundaries between messages are very weak because there is no clear delimiter between them. Thus, HTTP/1.1 parsers are especially vulnerable to request smuggling attacks.

How to Monitor VPN Performance for Remote Users

Remote workers depend on VPNs to access corporate resources. When VPN performance tanks, productivity stops. The problem? Most IT teams troubleshoot blindly. They can't tell if slow performance is caused by VPN encryption overhead, ISP issues, or corporate infrastructure problems. Here's the reality: Your remote workers are calling the help desk, saying "the VPN is slow", but you have no visibility into what's actually happening on their end. You're guessing. Maybe you ask them to restart their router.

3 Questions I Expect You to Ask Me

As a product specialist, I’ve had countless conversations about network observability. I’ve seen the good, the bad, and the downright confusing. The market is flooded with vendors, all claiming to have the magic bullet for your network woes. Everywhere I go, the story is the same. The neat and tidy world of the on-premises data center is gone, replaced by a sprawling environment that stretches across multiple clouds, your own facilities, and out to the edge.

A/NZ Webinar - How ThinkConcepts Strengthens Cybersecurity with Adlumin MDR

In this webinar, N‑able’s Security Head Nerd, Lewis Pope, sits down with Jason Short, Head of Security at ThinkConcepts, an MSP based in Auckland, New Zealand. Jason shares how his team tackles the cybersecurity challenges SMBs face and how Adlumin MDR helps them stay ahead of evolving threats.