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Kentik Earns Forrester Nod as Breakout Vendor

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So much so that we’re now in the midst of a struggle for influence between cloud and traditional networking approaches, a topic that our guest analyst Jim Metzler wrote about in his recent blog post “ Culture War: Network vs. Cloud.“. Kentik Detect is built from the ground up as a VNI-friendly network monitoring solution.

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SNMP vs. NetFlow

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There is a lot of confusion regarding the two primary data sets in network management: SNMP and flow. What is SNMP? SNMP is used to collect metadata and metrics about a network device. Flow technologies, such as NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, IPFIX, and others, are used to describe traffic on the network. Who Uses Flow and SNMP?

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