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Building Relationships as an Internet Analyst With Doug Madory | Network AF Episode 5

In this week's episode, you'll hear our host Avi and guest Doug Madory's conversation around internet analysis. Doug is the Director of Internet Analysis here at Kentik, with previous experience at Oracle and Dyn in the same role. Today he shares how he got into technology and his career in the Air Force. Doug later dives into what it's like building relationships with the press and working with them as an internet analyst. You'll get to hear about some of the essential stories highlighted throughout his career, as well. Listen now!

Network Management Services: An Intro Guide With Examples

Connectivity is more valuable to today’s businesses than ever. Partly, this is because many business-critical operations are happening online. Employees are connecting using collaborative software. Customers are seeking support and placing orders online. At the same time, suppliers and partners are transmitting data online. All their success depends on network capacity and reliability.

The Future of Private Addresses: Goodbye NAT, Hello IPv6

When the internet was first developed, the IP addressing scheme was IPv4. This addressing scheme worked really well for about 25 years. After all, it had about 4 billion host addresses. But as the internet grew, we started to see that this was just not going to be enough. Now we have an entire infrastructure that was built on IPv4. While IPv5 addresses have been exhausted, we’ve used band-aid solutions to keep the internet growing.

How to determine the source of SaaS latency

One of the positive things that came out of events in 2020 was that many of us started working from home. At first, it was kind of weird. But once we realized that what we needed was available online, it became easier. All we had to do was figure out a few new apps, like Slack, Asana and Google Docs. Then, after a couple of weeks of working from home, many of us started having thoughts like, “I wonder if I could wear shorts and my favorite slippers?

How to Optimize Your Cyber Security and Performance Monitoring Tools Using Load Balancing

The capacity to scale and process high data traffic by monitoring appliances is a critical requirement for organizations aiming to enhance or improve their security and protection from external threats. Excessive incoming traffic demands high-monitoring capabilities as it overwhelms the monitoring tools and places computational bounds that increase exponentially.

Monitoring network security with Aruba Clearpass, Grafana and Graphite

In this article, we will explore why it is imperative to constantly monitor network security metrics, what Aruba Clearpass is, and how it helps us manage network security. Then we will look at what Graphite and Grafana are and how to analyze metrics with their help. Finally, we will learn how MetricFire can make it easier for us to work with Graphite and Grafana.

The Lights Never Go Out For Financial Services

The financial sector is in a constant state of change, and institutions must continually adjust to the evolving needs of their customers and the global marketplace. And with availability requirements like the ones European Banking Authority (EBA) provide—99.5%—financial institutions are driven to remain on the bleeding edge of responsiveness and convenience. Banking outages lead to lost consumer confidence and damaged reputations in a sector where trust is the cornerstone of doing business.