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It has been a transformative year for Africa's cloud ecosystem. Considerable new investment is going into carrier-neutral data centres across the region and slowly but surely the adoption of cloud services is gathering pace. Meanwhile, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has led many businesses to accelerate adoption of cloud services, and reaffirmed the need to push ahead with digital transformation initiatives.

How SD-WAN, dedicated cloud connections, MPLS and the public internet compliment each other as essential components of the hybrid enterprise WAN Enterprises' use of multiple public and private connectivity is only going to continue into the future, bringing unwanted complication to their networks as they connect not just site-to-site and site-to-cloud, but also cloud-to-cloud.

Technology has evolved the critical need for accessing real-time applications such as cloud-collaboration, VoIP and video conferencing from anywhere in the world. CIOs who prioritize around the clock performance and availability for cloud-based productivity tools, have an opportunity to deliver more value and can give their business a competitive edge. IT dashboards are a critical tool in enabling productivity. However, one of the biggest challenges that IT leaders face is to integrate data from multiple business systems that are already in place, both on-premise and in cloud solutions.

Relevant and timely alerts are a key tool to manage application performance successfully. However, IT administrators are often overwhelmed by alerts. Either they receive too many alerts or get notified of ones that aren't relevant to them. By setting up alarm properties to suit your needs, you'll find them more relevant and avoid alarm fatigue. Becoming proactive, rather than reactive when it comes to detecting problems on the network reduces stress on the IT staff and offers a better end-user experience, by preventing downtime.

Learn more about the technical background of Flowmon Enriched Flow Data technology, which enables you to resolve 95% of all troubleshooting cases. Together with on-demand packet capture, Flowmon is an all-in-one platform to successfully monitor and manage your network.

The patterns of network traffic are changing. Due to global health concerns, face-to-face contact is discouraged and home office has become a necessity, creating new challenges for network monitoring. The sudden global trend of working from home poses dilemmas for network administrators. Do they increase the company bandwidth or change Internet communications policy? In what way have network traffic characteristics changed and what does it mean for you?

Monitoring with Prometheus Understanding and Using Prometheus (With real examples)

Encryption is considered as security by design. It undoubtedly helps to avoid risks such as communication interception and misuse. Therefore it is natural that all responsible organizations adopt encryption as an important way of protecting business critical applications and services. According to Gartner 80 % of web traffic will be encrypted in 2019.