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Transform Network Operations with Selector's Unified Monitoring, Observability, and AIOps Platform

Network scale, health, and performance continue to play an increasingly critical role in the modern enterprise. With substantial and ongoing investment in monitoring and observability tools, businesses strive to more efficiently manage their networks and infrastructure. However, a combination of new networking technologies, increasing complexity, and reduced headcount is putting pressure on their disjointed legacy ecosystem.

Can gzip Compression Really Improve Web Performance?

The size of the web is slowly growing. Over the past decade, the average webpage weight grew by 356%, from about 484 KB to 2.205 MB. Considering 800 KB was the average size of a website in 2012, that’s an enormous difference. While it’s true that the global average internet speed is increasing, users with slow, limited, or unreliable internet access often end up waiting. The question is, how do we keep websites fast even as they get bigger and bigger?

What You Need to Know About ITIL for Service Management

As the person on the front lines, you know that providing the best service possible can be what makes your ITSM organization succeed. Every day, you work to build the relationships that help your organization create value for end-users. However, when you have inefficient processes, you end up having to be the person responding to an upset user.

Data Here, Data There, Data Everywhere: the Benefits of Routing Data With Cribl

As an organization, you likely have many choices on where to store, analyze, and correlate your data. Those choices may change or iterate over time, so having an easy way to route data is needed. Enter Cribl Stream, which can route your data where it needs to go and save some effort, time, and money. It can help with organizational-wide initiatives like migrations and consolidations but can also help with smaller-scale initiatives and your day-to-day tasks of simply getting data in.

Broken windows: Why the 'Single Pane of Glass' is Impossible

It was only as I started to study information theory that I truly understood how nonsensically the computer worked in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Decades before voice assistants and at a time when only the most basic language parsing existed in practice, the computer on Star Trek could always give you the answer you wanted. No one ever spent any time clicking into multiple windows to find an answer, and the display always gave information that could be easily summarized in words.

Critical Requirements for Rapid and Accurate Isolation of Issues in Modern Networks

NetOps by Broadcom addresses the three fundamental requirements that enable NetOps teams to speed issue detection and resolution. A highly scalable, unified data model, advanced analytics and intelligent triage workflows. The solution presents operators with the intelligence they need, within intuitive, easy-to-understand troubleshooting workflows. The solution minimizes alarm noise, so NetOps teams can quickly diagnose issues and identify the root cause. For more info, visit broadcom.com/netops.

Mastering Predictive Analytics: Powering Engines for Continual Insight

Predictive analytics are a powerful tool, enabling organizations to make informed data-driven decisions. These tools are far-reaching and can deliver impactful results, either in the long term, like supply chain management and overall equipment effectiveness, or in the short term, like anomaly detection. Let’s take a look at what predictive analytics are and how to power predictive analytics engines for continued, meaningful insight into your data and operations.

Troubleshoot anomalies in workload performance with Watchdog Insights and Alerts for Live Processes

Processes—the service workloads that run on your infrastructure—are the building blocks of your application, and it’s critical to know how well they operate at every level of the stack. Degraded process performance can lead to downtime for your mission-critical services, resulting in loss of customer trust and potentially impacting revenue for the business.