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Businesses adopting new technologies are looking for a digital transition that assures streamlined performance upgrades while cutting costs. Servers, an important endpoint of the network, have a great influence on both aspects. Given its significance, proactively monitoring server traffic trends, bottlenecks, and optimizing the network to lessen outages or downtime is indispensable. However, monitoring without powerful strategies and tools that fulfill your business objectives is a lost cause.

In the previous installment of our series, we explored the initial findings of our comprehensive survey. Today, we continue our journey, focusing on the readiness of IT teams for remote work challenges and beyond.

Gone are the days of juggling multiple monitoring tools and piecing together fragmented data. The modern IT landscape demands a holistic approach known as unified monitoring when it comes to streamlining all your mission-critical services and vendors. Partner your business infrastructure with a status page aggregator and establish a health dashboard with all your dependencies.

Monitoring your network performance is important for many reasons and can help in detecting network issues such as bandwidth congestion, latency, packet loss, or hardware failures. By continuously monitoring your network, you can identify areas where improvements can be made, allowing for optimization of resources, better allocation of bandwidth, and overall enhancement of network efficiency.

In today's dynamic cloud computing environment, effective monitoring of cloud services is essential. Developed in partnership with Google Cloud, Google Test Suite offers easy-to-deploy test templates to monitor your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.

Azure App Service rightsizing refers to adjusting the computing size allocated to an Azure App Service plan to achieve an optimal balance between cost and performance. It involves analyzing the resource utilization and selecting an appropriate computing power to meet your performance requirements while minimizing costs. Optimizing App service plan sizes is crucial for cost efficiency and performance enhancement.

We are pleased to announce that several Broadcom software products are now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace, providing Google Cloud customers with market leading value stream management and network performance monitoring capabilities via a simplified procurement process and consolidated billing with their Google Cloud account.

Kentik now provides network insight into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) workloads, allowing customers to map, query, and visualize OCI, hybrid, and multi-cloud traffic and performance.

Cloud-based services have changed how individuals and businesses get things done. That doesn’t mean it’s all positive — there are some tradeoffs and compromises that come with cloud services and the internet. One major tradeoff is speed. For instance, if your website fails to load within three seconds, 40% of your visitors will abandon your site. That’s a serious dent for anyone doing business online. The culprit here is latency.