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The Networking API Guide

How to use APIs to automate network connectivity Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) exist to abstract the underlying complexity of a system whilst allowing third parties to integrate and with and extend their own systems and capabilities. At least 50% of all B2B collaboration occurs via APIs. Without access to APIs, partners can't easily interact with an organisation's data or services, meaning that connectivity to infrastructure assets becomes something the organisation has to stop and build itself, leaving it vulnerable to competition

CISA's recommendations on how to recognize and avoid email scams

Just as remote work has grown at an unprecedented rate across the world, so too have the number of email scams. Email is now the most popular attack vectors among adversaries. We've prepared a guide to help you understand the anatomy of popular email-based scams, how they work, and what you can do to avoid them. Key insights from the e-book.

Ensuring Teams Performance when it's OneDrive, SharePoint and Exchange Under The HoodBy Nick Cavalancia, Microsoft MV

It has become the backbone of many organizations, where conference calls, meetings, collaboration, and sharing all take place. This dependency makes it a critical application that requires consistent optimal performance to effectively maintain user productivity. For most Microsoft 365 applications, monitoring performance of a service like Exchange Online revolves around Exchange-related services, logs, etc. With Teams however, ensuring optimal performance proves to be a more complex task, and even more so when utilizing native tools.

Prevent and Avoid Costly Downtime

With increasingly complex systems sustaining mission-critical services, IT departments are hard at work designing business continuity strategies to avoid unpleasant surprises. Each year companies lose $26.5 billion in revenue due to IT downtime - either planned or unplanned. When there are critical application failures on the network the costs can hit a staggering 1 million dollars per hour lost in Fortune 100 companies.

The Essential Hybrid Networking Guide

How SD-WAN, dedicated cloud connections, MPLS and the public internet compliment each other as essential components of the hybrid enterprise WAN Enterprises' use of multiple public and private connectivity is only going to continue into the future, bringing unwanted complication to their networks as they connect not just site-to-site and site-to-cloud, but also cloud-to-cloud.

The Top IT Dashboards You Should Be Using

Technology has evolved the critical need for accessing real-time applications such as cloud-collaboration, VoIP and video conferencing from anywhere in the world. CIOs who prioritize around the clock performance and availability for cloud-based productivity tools, have an opportunity to deliver more value and can give their business a competitive edge. IT dashboards are a critical tool in enabling productivity. However, one of the biggest challenges that IT leaders face is to integrate data from multiple business systems that are already in place, both on-premise and in cloud solutions.

Take Control of Alert Storms

Relevant and timely alerts are a key tool to manage application performance successfully. However, IT administrators are often overwhelmed by alerts. Either they receive too many alerts or get notified of ones that aren't relevant to them. By setting up alarm properties to suit your needs, you'll find them more relevant and avoid alarm fatigue. Becoming proactive, rather than reactive when it comes to detecting problems on the network reduces stress on the IT staff and offers a better end-user experience, by preventing downtime.

Console Connect Use Cases

6 examples of how private, on-demand connectivity will transform your enterprise network Console Connect can help you transform your network with private, scalable and on-demand connectivity. Learn about six different customer cases that will help you understand how common connectivity challenges can be easily overcome with Console Connect's solution. Console Connect is a Software-Defined Interconnection platform, enabling the connection of Cloud-based, business-critical connections to always be simple, secure and straightforward.