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SD-WAN Monitoring Survival Guide: Be the Master of Your Network

SD-WAN technology is a hot topic in the networking world, with many businesses transitioning to SD-WAN networks for the promise of improved performance and reliability. However, after migrating, numerous companies find themselves lacking in SD-WAN network visibility. This makes it difficult to identify and address performance issues and determine whether their SD-WAN service is meeting expectations. Are you tired of feeling like you're driving blindfolded when it comes to your company's network?

What Is the Network Operations Center (NOC): A Brief Overview

The true financial harm of downtime is significant. As of Aug 11, 2022, each minute costs an average of $9,000, according to the Ponemon Institute, raising the downtime cost per hour to over $500,000. It goes without saying that network outages hurt revenue, kill productivity, and harm the corporate brand, as well as the reputations of professionals who may be dragged into the mess.

How are firewalls and SD-WAN related?

You might think that firewalls and SD-WAN are two completely unrelated technologies. However, integrating these innovations improves network availability, optimizes network performance, and adds an extra layer of security to your organization. Learn more about firewalls and SD-WAN and why you should combine them.

Network Availability Monitoring: Understanding the Differences Between Client Expectations vs. SLAs

Network downtime can have a significant impact on business operations, leading to lost revenue and diminished customer trust. As a result, network availability monitoring has become increasingly crucial for businesses of all sizes. However, when it comes to monitoring network availability, it is essential to understand the differences between client expectations and service level agreements (SLAs).
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What is IT Operations Management

The world of IT networking has countless acronyms for every component, metric, technology, function, and so on. ITOM, or IT operations management, is a function that encapsulates the administration of all network infrastructure components within an organization. ITOM is a critical function that can directly determine the fortunes of the company. It is for the same reason that we should clearly understand what it stands for, why it's needed, and what its benefits are. Let's dive in.

How to Achieve Full Stack Observability in Highly Distributed Environments Webinar

Your modern IT infrastructure has become an increasingly complicated mix of on-premises, public and private cloud applications, devices and environments. Forward-thinking organizations are addressing this complexity by transitioning to a proactive “observability” approach for infrastructure management. This methodology produces and then applies actionable data to optimize and secure the entire network.

Exploring Your Network Data With Kentik Data Explorer

A cornerstone of network observability is the ability to ask any question of your network. That means having an unbound capacity to explore the tremendous amount and variety of network telemetry you collect. It means seeing trends and patterns from a macro level, but it also means getting very granular to pursue any line of analysis of your data. Collecting information from flow records, SNMP, streaming telemetry, BGP, eBPF, and so on is indeed very important.