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Troubleshooting an Azure Load Balancer in Kentik Cloud

Achieve in-depth insight into your Azure Load Balancer performance with Kentik Cloud. This video demonstrates how to use Kentik's Data Explorer to filter and analyze Azure traffic, enabling you to evaluate your load balancer's effectiveness and investigate potential performance issues. Learn how to select and use various dimensions of enriched flow data and visualize the balance of traffic through your load balancer. Learn how Kentik can help answer critical performance questions within seconds, streamlining your troubleshooting process.

NetOps in Action: Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS)

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS) is an American multinational corporation which offers a wide range of financial products and services. FIS is most known for its development of Financial Technology, or FinTech. FIS has a portfolio of products for the financial services sector, including both retail and investment banking. FIS global customers connect to services from FIS’s Little Rock, AR datacenter.

What is Packet Duplication & How to Identify It

Welcome, IT pros and network admins! Get ready to unravel the mysteries of packet duplication and equip yourself with the knowledge to identify and conquer it like a true tech-savvy champion. In the fast-paced digital landscape of modern businesses, every second counts. Imagine sending vital information across the vast network of the online world, only to discover that it's been duplicated along the way. It's like having two identical envelopes delivered to your doorstep when you were expecting just one!

Transformations in network technology

Over the past five years, enterprise networking has undergone a significant transformation driven by advancements in technology, the rise of cloud and SaaS applications, the decentralization of the workforce, and the need for agility, scalability, and cost mitigation. These factors have led organizations to shift from on-premise network management systems (NMS) to cloud-managed networking platforms and to adopt technologies like Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN).

Proxy server benefits for social media automation

In the XXI century, many companies and business-minded people had to follow and adapt to the revolutionary changes in the world of marketing. The emergence and rapid growth of the internet have slowly and surely shifted the attention from newspapers, radio, TV, and other forms of traditional media.

Tech Confessions - Ancient Artifacts

What was the ANCIENT SECRET hidden within one company’s IT estate? In this Tech Confession, hear how an entire payroll system was at the mercy of one admin’s “voodoo” techniques to provide payment via seriously antiquated hardware and software. What were the risks? Keeping the system cranking was a ticklish proposition: Accidentally running an OS update once put the productivity of the whole organization at risk. That was just one of the hazards of running a key process on a hidden device that was invisible to the network.