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Navigating venture capital and networking with Alan Cohen | Network AF Episode 10

Alan Cohen, partner at venture capital firm DCVC, sits down with Avi to talk about his experience working in networking and security. During the conversation the two discuss Alan's history working for Nicira, Cisco, Illumio, and VMware. They also cover the advent of virtualization and multi-cloud, and strategies he has learned throughout his venture capital days to reach and grow entrepreneur's businesses.

2021 Pingdom Web Performance Year in Review

Welcome to 2022! We hope it will be a great year. First, the team at SolarWinds® Pingdom® would like to thank all Pingdom users for their support and loyalty in 2021. Thank you for trusting us to monitor your websites, servers, and services in a more volatile internet ecosystem. And while we look back at 2021 web performance in review, we can’t wait to monitor, report, and analyze more online events in 2022.

Data Lakes and Beyond: Complementing the New AWS CloudTrail Lake Service With LogStream

AWS announced CloudTrail Lake on January 5th, 2022, as a fully-managed solution for storing and querying CloudTrail logs. At first glance, it is straightforward to set up, can be enabled for all your organization’s accounts with a radio button, and keeps data for up to seven years by default! It’s a huge time saver and headache eliminator for many, as getting CloudTrail from all organization accounts to a SIEM can be tedious and time-consuming. But all this comes with a cost.

Living Your Stream: Build Your Observability Data Pipeline with Cribl LogStream Free

Our mission at Cribl is to unlock the value of all your observability and telemetry data, regardless of source or destination. We aim to give you choice and control over your data—because we know data has different value to different stakeholders at different times in the data lifecycle. Users are just scratching the surface in terms of the ways they are finding value from Cribl LogStream.

Six reasons why SAP monitoring is important for CIOs

Gartner reported that unplanned IT system downtime cost: $5,600 per minute. $300,000 per hour. IDC, on the other hand, estimates that system outages can cost a company between $500,000 to $1 million or more per hour. (“DevOps and the Cost of Downtime: Fortune 1000 Best Practice Metrics Quantified”) With more than 345,000 customers in more than 180 countries and 15,000 partnering companies globally, SAP is the world’s third largest independent software manufacturer.

AppNeta is Now Part of Broadcom and Will Lead Industry in Network Visibility Anywhere

Broadcom officially closed on the acquisition of AppNeta on Jan 31, 2022. This marks a new beginning for AppNeta and the Broadcom network monitoring software business. AppNeta will take the lead in our vision to enable Network Visibility Anywhere, focusing especially on operational blind spots and experience in the last mile. We aim to ensure a quality digital experience anywhere while working, transacting, communicating and automating.

STOP PRESS: How website downtime affects your brand

Website downtime happens to the best of us, even the likes of mammoth websites like Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter all experience it. Luckily for these big companies, they’re so established and have such a huge customer base that downtime is unlikely to make them lose a large proportion of them. It will, however, cost them larger amounts of money for every second that their website is down. Take Amazon as a prime example.

The whats, whys, and hows of Windows network monitoring

Microsoft Windows is one of the most widely used operating systems and is preferred by users all around the world. A Windows device is associated with a lot of processes, services, and events that often need to be tracked from a single console. This is where a Windows network monitoring tool comes in handy. A Windows network monitoring tool is used to monitor the availability and performance of Windows devices in a network.

What's new in Sysdig - January 2022

As you already know, the “What’s new in Sysdig” blog team is involving more and more people, and this month is up to me, Giulio Puri. I’m based in Milan, Italy, and I’ve been part of the Sysdig EMEA team since May, 2021 as a Sales Engineer. I’m passionate about technology, innovation and cybersecurity, and in my free time, I love to cook, experiment with recipes and – not always successfully – surprise my friends with new dishes.

The Next Big Thing for CSP Network Monitoring - Autonomous Remediation

CSPs aiming to achieve zero-touch networks are looking for monitoring solutions that go beyond autonomous detection to autonomous remediation. Ira Cohen, Co-Founder and Chief Data Science at Anodot explains the principles behind autonomous remediation and details the needed building blocks and capabilities to achieve it.