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Auvik + ConnectWise: An Integrated Approach to Greater Network Visibility & Faster MTTR

Network management shouldn’t be an unmanageable—or unprofitable—task. Discover how Auvik integrates with ConnectWise to give you true network visibility and control, from one centralized view. It’s designed to streamline your workflows and help you close tickets faster, so you can scale your operations.

What You Can Learn From the 2020 Network Vendor Diversity Report

In our third year of producing the Network Vendor Diversity Report, we’ve learned the network hardware market is becoming more crowded and fragmented as time goes on. Nearly two-thirds of all IT service providers are managing more than five network vendors per client. Cisco still maintains its reign as the most commonly deployed vendor on today’s managed networks, but its share continues to decline as vendors like Ubiquiti chip away at its lead.

A Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Power BI & Network Reports

As a network admin or a network manager, you’re likely using a ton of software and tools—from network monitoring tools like Auvik to ITSMs like ServiceNow to communications apps like Microsoft Teams. With a lot of tools comes a lot of data, which can show you how your network and your team are performing over a period of time. The challenge is putting all of those pieces together to see the bigger picture.

Auvik Road Map Webinar - Q4 2020

Since our last roadmap update in May, we’ve released syslog, integrations with multiple new apps like ServiceNow, a new and improved application classifier in TrafficInsights to better identify your traffic mix, and a whole lot more. Now, we invite you to a sneak peek into what’s ahead for the rest of 2020 and early ‘21. Auvik VP of Product Management Patrick Albert will walk you through what’s on the Auvik development calendar and what features and functionalities you can expect to see on your dashboard in the coming months.

3 Key Trends From the 2020 Network Vendor Diversity Report

In the inaugural Network Vendor Diversity report, Auvik discovered high diversity in the network devices IT teams and MSPs were managing. In 2019, the data showed complexity continuing to rise as all categories became increasingly fragmented. In the 2020 edition, we look at the same four categories of managed network devices—access points, switches, routers, and firewalls—deployed across a sample of 30,000 networks, and compared the data to both 2018 and 2019.

Configuring and Troubleshooting Multicast Protocols

There are two important protocols required to get your network to forward multicast packets: IGMP and PIM. In this article, I’ll show you how to set up these protocols on your network and how to troubleshoot them. PIM (Protocol Independent Multicast) has two main versions called “dense-mode” and “sparse-mode.” There is also a “sparse-dense-mode,” which has features of both versions and is really just used to help to bootstrap a multicast network.

51 Types of As-a-Service Offerings

The cloud is here—and so are its acronyms. Since software as a service (SaaS) hit the world in 2001, the ‘as a service’ model has been extended to just about everything you can think of. Along the way, the definition has become a little muddied. It used to be that -aaS meant something delivered on a subscription basis via the cloud, without a physical component.

5 Reasons to Add Network Monitoring to Your 2021 IT Budget

For many companies, the beginning of October is also the beginning of the fourth and final quarter of the fiscal year. In IT, it’s a time to prepare for the new year by defining our priorities and setting our budget. COVID-19 threw a wrench into all of our 2020 plans from last year and a lot has changed since then. But one thing that hasn’t changed is the need for a network monitoring system in your software stack.

What Is Multicast Networking and How Does It Work?

Multicast networking is based on the simple concept that a single packet can be sent by a server and it will be received by many receivers. Multicast is different from broadcast because it’s more selective. Where broadcast packets are received by all receivers in a particular network segment (or broadcast domain), multicast packets are received only by receivers that want them. Also, multicast receivers can be distributed throughout a larger network behind routers.