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Implementing a Bring Your Own Device Policy (BYOD) in Your Organization

Bring your own device (BYOD) policies are more important than ever since smartphones became pervasive. I’d argue that even if you don’t want to allow personal user devices to access corporate data or applications, you still need BYOD policy best practices if only to acknowledge the fact that users are already bringing their personal devices into your organization.

Introducing Megaport AI Exchange

Supercharge your AI innovation with secure, scalable, and high-performance connectivity for your AI workloads. AI isn’t magic. Just like every other system in the IT world, AI is built on computing infrastructure – and the performance of your AI applications hinges on this infrastructure and the connections that bind it.

What Are Speed Tests & How to Run Them (Scheduled & On-Demand) | Obkio NPM Onboarding Series

What Are Speed Tests & How to Run Them (Scheduled & On-Demand) Learn how to measure network speed and validate the overall performance of your network with scheduled and on-demand speed tests in Obkio's Network Performance Monitoring app. You can view, schedule and run Speed Tests from the “Speed Tests” tab in Obkio’s app.

How to Create, Customize & Share Network Performance Reports | Obkio NPM Onboarding Series

In this video, we’re looking at the “Dashboards” tab in Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring App. The Network Monitoring Dashboards allow you to visualize all the information and metrics collected from your Obkio account. You can leverage dashboards to analyze and compare information and find answers when monitoring and troubleshooting network performance. You can create an unlimited number of Dashboards in your Obkio account. These Dashboards will be composed of several Widgets.

Implementing OpenTelemetry with Nginx - Instrument and visualize traces

OpenTelemetry is an open-source standard for instrumenting cloud-native applications for generating different types of telemetry data. A robust observability framework set up using OpenTelemetry can help tremendously while troubleshooting software in production. Nginx is one of the most widely adopted web servers. Most often, nginx is used as a reverse proxy. It serves the frontend or backend applications behind the reverse proxy.

Coherent Routing and Optical Transport - Getting Under the Covers

Network operators need to make best use of their IP and Optical network resources. During this webinar we will explain how a new generation of high power coherent transceiver technologies is allowing us to assemble the traditional network building blocks in novel ways creating new architectures. Whatever the choice, the webinar shows how to construct a unified IP Optical network at the lowest TCO.

Understanding Automation Essentials Challenges, Solutions and Beyond

Automation is one of the main considerations when defining a cloud strategy. It is essential that enterprises implement automation within their cloud infrastructure so that they can not only enhance efficiency and generate opex savings, but also to scale operations and improve service delivery to their customers. Despite its importance, automation still has its challenges. Organizations must know how to automate tasks across often complex cloud architectures, in addition to meeting security expectations and navigating implementation costs.

How to Set Up Real User Monitoring in SolarWinds Observability Platform

Learn how to set up Real User Monitoring in the SolarWinds Observability Platform to track and analyze the real-time performance of your website. This tutorial covers integrating Real User Monitoring with your website, setting performance thresholds, and configuring the tool for single-page applications. By the end, you'll know how to gain valuable insights into your end users' experience and optimize your website's performance.

Two Scenarios for Hybrid Multicloud Deployment With IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure

Learn how you can modernize your applications at scale for a powerful hybrid multicloud solution. Every network team wants a hybrid multicloud network that is efficient, resilient, secure, and scalable. Megaport has been a part of this journey for years, and many enterprises today leverage Megaport Cloud Router(MCR) for their cross-cloud workloads to achieve their dream networks.

DX App Synthetic Monitor (ASM): Introducing Synthetic Operator for Kubernetes

DX App Synthetic Monitor (DX ASM) performs synthetic checks from an external perspective to replicate real-user experience. Using the DX ASM global network of more than 90 monitoring stations, customers can test a website or application on a 24/7 basis, with no disruption to production systems. The solution also provides the option to create on-premises monitoring stations (OPMS) within a data center to monitor web applications and APIs inside the firewall.