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The Ins and Outs of SaaS Network Monitoring: A Comprehensive Guide for Optimal Performance

Businesses rely heavily on their networks to maintain smooth operations, enable seamless communication, and facilitate efficient data transfers. However, network instability can throw a wrench into even the most well-oiled business machinery, resulting in frustrating delays, dropped connections, and reduced productivity. This is where network jitter monitoring comes to the rescue.

3 Key Insights from the Gartner Market Guide for SaaS Management Platforms

As the world continues to shift toward a remote-first or hybrid work model that relies heavily on cloud applications and SaaS, new business challenges have emerged for the IT industry. One of these challenges we’ve been tracking here at Auvik is the lack of management for SaaS applications and the risks this kind of shadow IT can bring to a business. That’s why we think the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for SaaS Management Platforms (December 2022) is so critical.

8 Ways to Meet Enterprise Network Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Large cloud providers and ISPs offer service level agreements (SLAs) that guarantee uptime and help seal the deal with enterprises that value uptime. These same enterprises often ask IT to make the same guarantees for the performance and uptime of the internal network, its many varied connections and even the applications. At the same time, IT may have myriad SLAs from all kinds of vendors—including the aforementioned ISPs and cloud providers—it must manage.

Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.8

We are proud to announce that we have released HAProxy Data Plane API 2.8, available on our GitHub page. This release follows the recent HAProxy 2.8 release and incorporates its changes, along with some improvements and changes specific to the API. HAProxy Data Plane API 2.8 adds new keywords focused on QUIC, OCSP stapling, and tuning options that allow you to customize your HAProxy process using the HTTP REST API programmatically.

Experience-Driven NetOps: The Integration of AppNeta and DX NetOps

AppNeta and DX NetOps enable Experience-Driven NetOps by bringing user experience and visibility across both managed and unmanaged networks into a unified console. Start with alarms and drill down to see the details of performance along the complete network path, hop by hop, including information about voice and data to understand issues over time. Use dashboards to see insights into the health of your network delivery paths across your organization and drill-in to isolate the problem with detailed reports including network experience capacity projections for ISPs.

What is Network Throughput: From Bytes to Blazing Speed

As network admins and IT specialists, you bear the crucial responsibility of optimizing network performance, ensuring the seamless flow of information. Network throughput lies at the heart of this endeavour, serving as a key performance metric that measures the amount of data transmitted within a given timeframe. Consider network throughput as the pulse of your network—the indicator of its vitality and efficiency.

8 Common Uses of VPN in 2023: How People Leverage Its Benefits

Explores the capabilities of a virtual private network (VPN) - a versatile tool that is surprisingly user-friendly. Whether it's for individuals or businesses, VPNs offer a multitude of advantages. Users can securely navigate activities such as traveling, using public Wi-Fi, sharing sensitive information, and unlocking entertainment options on Netflix, all with the assistance of a VPN. This comprehensive guide provides valuable insights into effective VPN usage and highlights the numerous benefits it offers. It caters to personal and corporate scenarios alike.

How Kentik reduces the likelihood of a full-blown cyber-attack before it happens

Organizations are under constant attack, and it’s critical to reduce the time it takes to detect attacks to minimize their cost. This first article in our new security series dives deep into how Kentik helps customers before, during, and after a cyber attack.