As the maintainer and lead developer of Netplan, I’m proud to announce the general availability of Netplan v1.0 after more than 7 years of development efforts. Over the years, we’ve had approximately 80 individual contributors from around the globe. This includes many contributions from our Netplan core-team at Canonical as well as organisations like Microsoft and Deutsche Telekom.

The world relies on the cloud which means that organizations are fundamentally reliant on third-party networks to access these critical cloud resources. While cloud adoption decisions are largely made by executive teams, the responsibility of performance and availability falls squarely on the shoulders of network operations teams.

Zoom has become a go-to platform for businesses hosting virtual meetings and collaborations. However, ensuring smooth and efficient Zoom sessions requires more than just joining a meeting close to a Wi-Fi router. While Zoom provides a built-in monitoring tool for real-time quality checks during meetings, it lacks historical data and baseline analysis, limiting its utility.

Microsoft Teams has become a cornerstone of collaboration and communication for countless enterprises worldwide. However, as reliance on Unified Communications (UC) grows, so do the chances of encountering performance issues. While Microsoft Teams offers some native tools for network assessments, they often prove limited and fail to address underlying issues effectively.

Customers can now streamline the purchase and management of AWS Direct Connect and private connectivity from within AWS Marketplace.

Active Directory (AD) is in many ways the lifeblood of your network, especially in terms of user and identity management. AD has become the core directory service for most enterprises, keeping track of users and IT assets, allowing all these to be identified and manipulated. Because Active Directory houses all these identities and logs the enterprise’s IT assets, IT can spot breaches and abnormal behavior through this directory data.

Leon takes a look at how to further modify SNMP metrics in Kentik NMS. Because sometimes, you want to modify data before displaying it in your network monitoring system. Ready? Let’s get mathy with it!

“We are drowning in noise all day long! Please help us!” -Every IT operations team Rich monitoring data is more important than ever for IT operations to manage the range of technology platforms and inter-connected systems the business runs on. One natural result of this is there are more signals and more noise that vie for operator attention.

Continued cloud adoption is leading to an increasing reliance on internet services, and on a complex mix of external service providers and technologies to deliver those services. For network operations teams, these moves significantly reduce visibility into the performance of the underlying infrastructure that business services depend upon. In spite of this diminishing visibility and control, these teams remain responsible for network performance.