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Continuous Fiber Optic Health Monitoring with Centralized OTDR

Fiber optic cables carrying massive amounts of information on pulsating beams of light are a critical part of the physical infrastructure supporting our digital society. By their nature, these cables are highly exposed, spanning huge distances in territories beyond the control of a network operator whether underground, under water or on aerial cables, and popping up in equipment huts.

The Importance of Hardware Health Monitoring

A networking problem can come from almost any fault within the infrastructure, whether it’s a bandwidth bottleneck, configuration issues, or a faulty networking component. But more than half of IT system outages are caused by hardware failure. The ability to quickly identify and resolve hardware issues goes a long way toward ensuring optimized performance. While this may seem like a simple solution, there are many, many potential hardware failure points, each of which can contribute to a slowdown.

Remote working monitoring: A breach of privacy or a gateway to a work-from-home culture?

One benefit of the lockdown triggered by the coronavirus epidemic has been a renewed enthusiasm for working at home. Forced to let millions of employees work from home to avoid contagion, companies that had been hesitant about taking this step have concluded they can benefit from moving to a remote workforce.

Data World Highlights: T-Mobile Netherlands, Anodot Discuss the Future of Network Monitoring

During the Data World event, Erwin Halmans, Project Manager of Data-Driven Network Operations & Assurance at T-Mobile Netherlands, Shounit Lax-Swisa, CEO of Company Booster, and Anodot Chief Data Scientist and Co-Founder Ira Cohen got together to discuss the future of network monitoring.

AWS Well Architected Framework in Serverless Part I: Security

Welcome to part one of our five-part “AWS Well-Architected Framework in Serverless” series. In this article, we’ll give you a short introduction to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and dive deeper into the Security pillar to explain it and some actionable ideas related to it. To learn more about the AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF) through the serverless lens and how to build Well-Architected architectures, make sure to attend our upcoming webinar on Friday, 27 November.

Planning for Cloud Migration as a Permanent Condition

When you complete your big cloud migration project, by all means celebrate, but don’t party too hard. The job’s not done. Digital transformation is never finished. Technology will progress. Customer expectations will evolve. The competition will advance. And your business must grow. This means that the transition to hybrid and multi-cloud is not a one-time event—it’s an ongoing process.

Best 5 Tools for Node.js Monitoring

Application developers are turning to Node.js as one of the most popularly used Javascript frameworks for microservice development. Node.js tops the list of most utilized frameworks amongst the developers worldwide in 2020 by 51.4 percent. With the increasing demand for Node.js technology, it has become crucial to monitor the performance of the applications, servers, and other metrics.

How to Estimate Any Website Traffic with These 3 Tools

While there are several different ways to measure the success of a site: one core metric is its traffic. Knowing how well your site performs compared to other sites is crucial in understanding how successful you have been in your efforts against competitors. This is possible if you know how much traffic your competitors are generating. Along with this, some competitor intelligence tools hand over the full list of keywords that bring traffic to a site.

InfluxDB Cloud is on AWS US East

We’d like to let you know that InfluxDB Cloud is now on AWS US East, also called us-east-1, based in northern Virginia. This is our third AWS region, after initially launching InfluxDB Cloud in AWS Oregon and later AWS Frankfurt. This brings InfluxDB Cloud’s effortless scaling, flexible usage-based pricing, AWS marketplace integration, and a broad range of AWS connectivity points to customers that want to manage their time series data in the eastern United States.

How fast should a website load?

Without a doubt, website owners in 2020 have had to reassess the speed of their websites and probably more critically than any other year. Yes, the stay at home directive in force around the world due to COVID-19 concerns made a lot of people gravitate more towards the use of the internet. During the lockdown, people from all over the world tended to spend a tremendous amount of time visiting various websites for both business and entertainment.