SDN and NFV are acronyms you hear frequently in discussions of modern networking. In fact, they appear so commonly that they can be easy to confuse or conflate with one another. But that would be a mistake. SDN and NFV are related terms, but they are also distinct. You can use SDN without using NFV, and the benefits of NFV are not the same as the benefits of SDN in general. Keep reading for a breakdown of what SDN and NFV have to do with each other, and what to use when.

In a simple deployment, an application will emit spans, metrics, and logs which will be sent to api.honeycomb.io and show up in charts. This works for small projects and organizations that do not control outbound access from their servers. If your organization has more components, network rules, or requires tail-based sampling, you’ll need to create a telemetry pipeline.

On May 31st, Catchpoint hosted a webinar to launch our Perigrine and Eagle releases, packed with new product features and enhancements that make our Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) Platform even more powerful.

The month of May has just ended and pretty much everybody agrees that 2023 is absolutely flying by. Here at Sentry, we’re looking to match the speed of 2023 with our own velocity of new product releases. Here they are in a nutshell.

As N-able Head Nerds we are continually looking for ways our partners can better support their end-users. So it’s hugely beneficial for us to visit with our partners when we can to see all the different approaches they take in supporting their customers. On a recent trip to South Africa, Marc-Andre Tanguay visited First Technology KZN in Durban. Whilst there the team showed Marc-Andre the custom BSOD monitor they had built to detect if a machine had suffered the dreaded Blue Screen of Death.