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Auvik Turns 8: A Look Back on Our First 8 Years

2011 was a big year for pop culture: Prince William and Kate Middleton tied the knot, Ashton Kutcher replaced Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men, and the theatrical release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 marked the end of an era. While our eyes were turned to the screen, something else was happening—two former co-workers were deciding it was time to start a new adventure together. Know what that means?

Motadata's Network Configuration Management Software

Motadata's Network Configuration Management helps users deploy policy compliant configurations, alerts them on out of process changes, monitors devices for configuration changes, backup and restore device configurations, manage configuration changes. It works in a multi-vendor environment and it can work with almost all the devices on your network.

Accelerating Your Deployment of the SolarWinds Orion Platform to Microsoft Azure

The SolarWinds Orion Platform and its modules are now Azure Certified applications and available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. During this video you'll see how to find SolarWinds within the Azure Marketplace, and how easy and fast it is to automate the deployment of the Orion Platform onto Azure virtual machines.

What Does Wi-Fi 6 Mean for MSPs?

Wi-Fi 6, or 802.11ax if you want to get technical, is the latest version of the 802.11 standard for wireless network transmissions that we all know as Wi-Fi. And if you’ve been on any tech news websites lately, you’ll know the topic is taking the tech world by storm. To get to the bottom of all the Wi-Fi 6 buzz, we talked with Lee Badman, a wireless network architect and expert, about what it means for MSPs and whether they should buy into the hype.

Monitor these loopholes to ensure complete network security

The continuous evolution and growth of the endpoint devices in enterprises makes network security management a primary concern for IT departments. As a sysadmin, you strive to ensure the safety and security of every device in your network. You are on a constant lookout for vulnerabilities and issues that might disturb the shield that protects your enterprise devices. With dynamically changing trends and technologies, it’s easy to miss details that might compromise your network’s armor.

Network Performance Monitoring

Your applications and infrastructure components rely on one another in an increasingly complex fabric, regardless of whether you run a monolithic application or microservices, and whether you deploy to cloud infrastructure, private data centers, or both. Virtualized infrastructure enables developers to respond to arbitrary scale—and creates dynamic network patterns that aren’t well matched to traditional network monitoring tools. To provide visibility into every component in your environment, and all the connections between them, Datadog is introducing Network Performance Monitoring for the cloud age. Miranda Kapin of Datadog tells you more.

Network Throttling: Monitor the User Experience

When it comes to monitoring web application performance, not only is it necessary emulate user actions, but also network conditions of end-user devices. Network throttling allows you to control connection speeds to better match the experience of real users, allowing you to see web application behavior in specific network conditions. Network connections can vary for many reasons. User location, device type, and browser used are just a few factors that can affect a user’s experience.