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A Guide to Juniper Contrail SD-WAN

Integrating SD-WAN into your organization allows you to leverage transport services for seamless connection to applications. Various technologies facilitate this process by routing traffic between different sites. However, Juniper Network’s Contrail SD-WAN offers enhanced routing, intelligent traffic steering, zero-touch provisioning, and other features that build on the capabilities of traditional SD-WAN architecture.
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OpManager: All-in-one network diagram software

Network diagram software holds an important place in modern ITOps. Policies like work from home and bring your own device as well as technologies like server virtualization and hybrid network architectures have resulted in dynamic network topologies. Network diagram software assists IT admins with tracking their network topology, visualizing their infrastructure, monitoring performance, and ensuring compliance.

Top 5 Trends Forecasted for Telco Operations' and Network Automation's Growing Impact

There’s no end in sight for the more-than-fair share of technological advancements the telecommunications sector has seen. And with change, comes challenges. The infrastructures that establish digital communication and connectivity that nearly everyone depends on are in regular, ongoing need of upgrades, which calls for significant investments in building and maintaining them. Much of the relevant decision-making comes from Communication Service Providers (CSPs).

What is a Firewall? Understanding Your Organization's First Line of Defense

Your organization depends on reliable network and endpoint security to ensure that all data is handled, stored, and protected properly. Generally, a comprehensive network security plan includes anti-virus software, access management, zero-trust policies, and endpoint security tools, among other things. A Firewall is considered to be one of the most important components of a network security plan.

How to Create Powerful, Customized Lua Mailers in HAProxy

SysOps teams know how crucial observability is to maintaining around-the-clock infrastructure health. And while HAProxy already provides reliable logging and stats (for diagnostics and monitoring), what if you could supplement those with a real-time alerting system? That idea inspired our initial inclusion of mailers in HAProxy. Since then, users have been asking for deeper mailer customizability—and we’re thrilled to deliver that with Lua-based email alerts in HAProxy 2.8.

The Great Network Observability Debate

You may have heard the term “network observability” regarding solutions that offer a deep and contextual view into the network. You’ve likely heard other terms, such as ‘network visibility,’ “network visualization” and of course “network monitoring.” But, experts argue, what these terms each truly means is still open for debate.

Troubleshooting a SaaS App in Kentik

Kentik's Phil Gervasi explains how Kentik's network observability platform helps IT professionals troubleshoot performance problems with SaaS applications. He demonstrates how Kentik's network observability platform can monitor popular SaaS providers, such as Office 365, Salesforce, GitHub, Dropbox, and more, using synthetic testing mechanisms. By capturing metrics like packet loss, latency, DNS resolution, and page load time, Kentik provides valuable insights into SaaS performance. Phil takes you through a real-life example of investigating a poorly performing SaaS application and showcases how Kentik's tools pinpoint network latency issues, both regionally and globally.