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Wireless Beyond Wi-Fi: Trends to Watch

For more than a decade, the face of wireless has been IEEE 802.11 WLANs, your typical Wi-Fi networks prevalent in every home and business. In 2020 and beyond, the line is trending toward RF-based technologies departing from our common WLAN technologies. Tomorrow’s wireless networks will impact every organization and professional, as we work to incorporate, manage, and secure these deviant technologies.

Introduction to Site Reliability Automation, Enabled by AIOps from Broadcom

To support digital transformation, organizations are increasingly looking to site reliability engineering, or SRE, approaches to managing complex infrastructures and handling the pace of change induced by DevOps. When issues occur, it’s important to have an integrated toolset that can determine the root cause and apply remediation. In addition, the solution should understand the results of the remediation action, increasing the confidence level in applying the right actions to other similar issues. All of this results in site reliability automation - enhancing infrastructure monitoring with intelligent recommendations and auto-remediation capabilities to help SREs create more resilient production environments. To learn more, go to broadcom.com/aiops

What is a Network Audit and How can Uptime.com Help?

Scaling sort of sneaks up on you, doesn’t it? One day, you’re carefree, the next you start to notice something is off… Maybe it’s the crashing, or the frequent dips in performance. Could it be the new hire? It’s not DNS. Is it DNS? Scaling is a natural part of the business process, and your infrastructure will start to change completely as your userbase doubles and triples.

Kubernetes Network Policy Introduction

Kubernetes Network Policy is the native way to implement network security controls in Kubernetes. Calico Policy is a superset of Kubernetes Network Policy that adds additional capabilities that help meet common real-world use cases. In this talk, we will educate you on the basics of Kubernetes Network Policy, the differences with Calico Policy, example use cases, and demos. You’ll walk away from this session with knowledge that will help you decide which network policy is right for you.

Building Stellar Orion Reports From the Ground Up - SolarWinds Lab Episode #88

Reports are among one of the most powerful and ubiquitous aspects of the Orion Platform. Despite being right at people's fingertips, they're often overlooked or under-appreciated as a tool to provide robust insight and monitoring awareness. Part of that might be due to users not feeling comfortable with the process of building reports. In this episode of SolarWinds Lab, Head Geek Chrystal Taylor will go back to the basics with you -- covering the process of building a report and showing all of the incredible features standard in the web-based report writer. Then, she'll take it a step further, showing some of the more sophisticated results you can get with just a few simple options.

Early Ransomware Detection and Response

The inability to access critical digital assets can be catastrophic to your operations. Ransomware is therefore one the scariest, but also most common online assaults. Join this webinar and learn how Flowmon, a leading network detection and response tool, helps to cover visibility gaps, detect ransomware and respond even prior to locking down digital assets. We will go through Flowmon's features via live demo and show you how to trace attackers’ footprints across the system.

Achieve Greater Network Visibility with LogicMonitor and Cisco SD-WAN

SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Networking) centralizes and automates the configuration of network devices and how they route traffic. This is increasingly important as not all network traffic is created equal; there are specific business-critical applications that are relied on more heavily than others. In addition to intelligent routing benefits, SD-WAN also allows IT managers to deploy internet-connectivity quickly, reliability, and securely.

What's Next After Connectivity?

Across the world, many network operators, fiber network wholesalers, municipalities, and local authorities are in a race to put fiber in the ground. New techniques and specialized tools have reduced the time it takes to deploy optical fiber and increased the amount of fiber held in a single duct, this makes the dream of providing fiber to every premise a cost-effective reality.