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See how 1Path, a leading IT solution provider, uses N-able Cloud Commander to manage all their Microsoft cloud in just one place to boost their efficiency.

In this video Product Marketing Evangelist John Capobianco explores retrieval augmented fine tuning and the world's first network language model (NML) fine-tuned by Selector AI! We will cover the evolution of operations as well as various inflection points in technology including artificial intelligence. Then we will deep dive into how, and why, techniques likes RAG and Fine Tuning augment human operations dealing with data at scale and complexity never seen before.

From the Vault: The conversation that sparked Uplink. Before we had a name or a theme song, this was the conversation that set the tone for what would become the Uplink Podcast. In this episode, Megaport CEO Michael Reid interviews Gui Soubihe, CEO and founder of Latitude.sh, a company delivering Bare Metal and GPU as a Service designed for the modern AI era.

With version 24.8, the Cove Data Protection team is happy to announce general availability of a newly enhanced backup retention model designed to make long-term retention policy management easier and more transparent. We’re also introducing enhancements to the Cove UI, to Microsoft 365 protection, and to our Continuity features.

Welcome! In this video, we’re looking at the “Dashboards” tab in Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring App. The Network Monitoring Dashboards allow you to visualize all the information and metrics collected from your Obkio account. You can leverage dashboards to analyze and compare information and find answers when monitoring and troubleshooting network performance. In this video, we will show you what you can do at the widget level in a single dashboard, and also, how to manage multiple dashboards in Obkio’s app.

Supply chain attacks impact both individual suppliers and their customers' organizations. Detecting and mitigating these attacks early is crucial to help prevent data breaches, operational disruptions and reputational damage. Fortunately, with the right tools, you can detect traces left behind by the attackers.

In this brief demo of the Selector platform, a user interacts with Selector Copilot to explore behavior within their network infrastructure. They first look into the latency of their transit routers, revealing a regional issue. The user drills down into network topology information to further investigate the latency, where they access details about devices, interfaces, sites, and circuits. Selector Copilot is then leveraged to surface circuit errors. Notably, each visualization provided by Selector Copilot can be copied and pasted onto a dedicated dashboard.

In this episode, Pete Roythorne and N-able’s Business Development Director Matt Takhar discuss the importance of getting your house in order for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the MSP industry. They highlight the increasing trend of M&A deals in recent years and predict a continued rise in the future. They explain different valuation methods, with a focus on EBITDA-based valuations. They emphasize the significance of factors such as recurring revenue, client base, operational efficiency, and growth potential in determining the value of an MSP.

Phil Gervasi shows the importance of understanding traffic over AWS Transit Gateways for cloud cost management. He demonstrates how Kentik provides a visual layout of the entire AWS environment, including Transit Gateways, and allows users to dig into specific details and metrics. Phil also gives a quick look at Data Explorer, where users can observe Transit Gateway traffic over time, create and edit filters, and customize data visualization for sharing and exporting.

Host Leon Adato takes you through the latest updates and features from Kentik. This month, we dive into monitoring analytics for content distribution networks (CDNs), explore the new Use Case Finder in Kentik's knowledgebase, and learn how to include custom fields in Data Explorer. Plus, Leon shares some light-hearted insights on why August is the perfect time to celebrate with Kentik's... uhh... craft brews? Don't forget to like and subscribe to keep up-to-date on everything new at Kentik!

Phil Gervasi introduces a method for identifying idle resources in AWS using the Kentik platform. By selecting dimensions such as Logging Status, Observing VPC ID, and Observing Region, users can filter the data to determine if a resource is actually doing anything from a network perspective. “No Data” messages indicate resources with no network activity, and a more specific filter can be created based on this message to isolate idle resources. By adjusting the time frame and observing bits per second, users can determine how long resources have been idle.

Phil Gervasi introduces a quick and easy way to see network performance metrics among multiple cloud instances. Synthetic tests can be deployed in multiple public clouds to test for loss, latency, and jitter among public cloud instances, such as between AWS and Azure. Phil demonstrates the ability to adjust the time range and shows inbound and outbound traffic, average latency, packet loss, and jitter. A spike in any of these metrics would trigger an alert tied to the ticketing system. He also shows the ability to click into the path view between cloud instances to see a hop-by-hop breakdown.

Welcome! In this video, we’re discussing Network Monitoring Agents in Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring App. Monitoring agents (software, hardware, virtual appliance) are be deployed to monitor network performance in all network locations. This video will also teach you how to create new Monitoring Agents or to modify or delete Agents you already have in your account.

Welcome to Obkio’s App! In this video, we’ll be exploring the “Application Performance” tab within the app. You can use Application Performance Monitoring (APM) to monitor web and application performance, and more specifically, to test any website or web application from an HTTP or HTTPS point of view. APM helps you understand if network issues are coming from your local network or not.

In this episode of Now That's IT: Stories of MSP Success, we sit down with Dave Wilkeson, the founder and CEO of MSP Advisor, to uncover the key strategies that propelled him from a tech hobbyist to a renowned leader in the Managed Service Provider (MSP) industry. Dave shares invaluable insights into the critical role of financial discipline in scaling an MSP, offering candid advice he wishes he could give his younger self.

On your journey to the Experience-Driven NOC, DX NetOps 22,2 is enabling network operations centers to utilize their standard operating procedures and workflows to triage the performance of the entire network path of any user experience - over managed or unmanaged networks. As with any workflow, we start with an alarm and enable operations to drill down, in-context to the offending network device; giving operators enhanced visibility into network path performance along with key KPIs for focused troubleshooting on any and all user experience impact.

Today’s IT environments are larger and more diverse than ever before. MSPs and IT teams are constantly navigating a growing list of endpoints, an ever-changing threat landscape, and error-prone human workflows. It leads to mishaps, silos, and redundancies that, in turn, lead to unnecessary added costs.

Introduction of Flowmon Application for seamless integration of Flowmon with IBM QRadar.

Jason Murphy, Head Nerd at N-able, walks you through the latest features and improvements designed to enhance your experience with N-central. Discover the backend enhancements to drive the N-able Ecoverse vision, updates for new API's and Analytics data models. As always more performance and hardening to make your experience even better.

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N-able Cloud Commander adds Tenant Level Settings Visibility, the first phase toward Secure Tenant Management. With this update MSPs and CSPs gain visibility into key Microsoft OneDrive and Microsoft SharePoint tenant level security settings, if applications using non-modern authentication is allowed, and even MDM certificate expiry. Expect more in ways of taking actions and alerting in future releases.

In this episode of the Beyond the Horizon podcast, N-able’s Andrew Burton and Stefan Voss discuss the role of AI and machine learning in backup products for MSPs. They highlight the importance of technician efficiency and the need for tools that can help MSPs do more with less. They specifically focus on the addition of machine learning capabilities to recovery testing in COV and how it improves accuracy and efficiency. They also address concerns about AI adoption and emphasize the importance of responsible use and partnering with the right vendors.

Being a voice service provider is challenging. Many regional and rural service providers are constrained by legacy TDM networks that are expensive to maintain, are well into their late lifecycles, are becoming a burden to administer and manage due to resource shortages and therefore pose risks to their business vitality. Continuing changes are experienced with vendors and products that seemingly constantly enter and exit the market. Ribbon offers a comprehensive transformation portfolio tailored to regional and rural providers.

The top query from database administrators is: what is this database for, and why do I care? The life of a DBA is one of infinite gifts, even if those gifts are unwanted. If you've ever had an application owner drop a database in your lap, then this session is for you. Hear from professionals who have dealt with this problem time and time again. Spoiler alert: better tooling gives you and the application owner the insight they need to make informed decisions.

In this dashboard tutorial video, we will walk you through building a Network Performance dashboard. This dashboard provides users with the visibility they need into the status of their network performance from their offices down to an individual users device. Obtaining this single pane of glass visibility is made easy with the combination of both CloudReady and Service Watch metrics into dashboards. When utilizing these dashboards, users can quickly identify which networks are performing poorly, allowing them to quickly resolve issues and ensure end users have an optimal experience.

Ribbon's Fixed Network Transformation solutions consolidate and modernize infrastructure, eliminating inefficiencies. Ribbon provides solutions to transform both the core IP and optical networks and the IP-based communications services that run on top of that network, helping service providers expand and improve business services as well as enter new markets like unified 5G xhaul and broadband backhaul. At the same time, these transformations reduce the cost and complexity of delivering traditional residential communications services by dramatically reducing recurring power, HVAC, space, and staffing costs.

Discover how to enhance your device management with N-central by creating custom properties to store critical information like public IP addresses and BitLocker Recovery Keys. In this video, Paul Kelly from the N-able Head Nerd Team guides Managed Service Providers (MSPs) through setting up scheduled tasks that automatically gather and store additional device data.

Resolving an incident before end users are impacted is the new standard, but managing separate observability and incident management solutions is tempting fate. You are at risk of an issue slipping through the cracks. It's time to consolidate, streamline, and decomplexify your operations. Hybrid Cloud Observability combined with SolarWinds Observability and SolarWinds Service Desk make all of this much, much easier.

Multi-cloud visibility is a challenge for most IT teams juggling multiple tools and screens to understand application traffic across multiple public clouds. Kentik unifies telemetry from the major cloud providers and the public internet into one place to give you the ability to monitor and troubleshoot application performance across AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle clouds for real-time and historical analysis.

This demo showcases the capabilities of the Cross-Cloud Network. See how customers running on another cloud provider can, securely access services hosted on Google Cloud over a private Cross-Cloud Interconnect connection using Cross-Cloud Network products Speaker: Ishita Mehta-Desai, Network Specialist.