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What is Internet Performance Monitoring and How is it Different from APM?

Most Internet-centric organizations today use some form of APM tools, as they should. But they are insufficient. Over the last ten years, the world has completely changed. If you think about it, in the first decade of this millennium, most businesses had an Exchange server, maybe Siebel CRM, a file share, and a range of other business apps, usually hosted in the same building. Everything was on the LAN. Today, it is the exact opposite. Everything is distributed.

A Year in Internet Analysis: 2022

This past year was another busy one for the internet. In this blog post, I will highlight some of the top pieces of analysis that we published in the past 12 months. This analysis employs Kentik’s data, technology, and expertise to inform the industry and the public about issues involving the technical underpinnings of the global internet and how global events can impact connectivity. These posts are organized into two broad categories: major internet disruptions and BGP routing security.

Goodbye LAN. The Internet is the Network.

We are at the cusp of an important technology transformation. A discontinuity in technology as Peter Drucker would call it (precipitated by Covid). For decades, IT organizations invested in building, managing, and monitoring LANs. Everything was on your local network: your CRM, your Exchange email, the file shares, and the print server. Today, many companies are shutting down their “old legacy network” and are running their enterprise without a LAN, WAN, or an OnPrem datacenter.