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Going Beyond the (Net)Flow: Introducing Universal Data Records

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UDRs for the Firewall. Most recently, UDRs allowed us to add visibility into firewalls, including Cisco ASA and others. Firewalls can carry deep insights into network traffic based on their ability to perform deep packet inspection and authentication, and add attributes (such as user names and application types) to flow data.

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Practical Steps for Enhancing Reliability in Cloud Networks - Part I

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Be it power supplies, servers, routers, load balancers, proxies, or any other physical and virtual network components, the horizontal scaling that redundancy provides is the ultimate safety net in the presence of failure or atypical traffic demands.

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