Kentik

JUNE 14, 2023

Spock, spotting the fatal flaw, raised his head from the familiar viewfinder to report to his captain this new advantage. Enterprise WAN in 2023 Enterprise networking in 2023 is very much the same. I recently had the privilege of attending the WAN and AWS Summits in London. His pattern suggested… two-dimensional thinking.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

Manufacturing in particular has become a bigger target for bad actors; in fact, it was one of the sectors most impacted by extortion attacks, according to Palo Alto Networks’ 2023 Unit 42 Extortion and Ransomware Report. investments because they deal with the security barriers that tend to slow down IoT, 5G, and SD-WAN adoption.

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CIO

JULY 11, 2022

However, the increased complexity of a distributed application architecture brought on by digital transformation continues to challenge even the largest security operations. According to LinkedIn’s Global Talent Trends 2022 report, people want the freedom to work where and when they want. Securing the shift to the cloud.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2023

For some that means getting a head start in filling this year’s most in-demand roles, which range from data-focused to security-related positions, according to Robert Half Technology’s 2023 IT salary report. Recruiting in the tech industry remains strong, according to the report.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

HPE Aruba Networking is coming off a very strong Q2 2023 with our Intelligent Edge revenue reaching $1.3 We have also been investing heavily to expand our data center networking capabilities across switching, automation, and integration into HPE compute, storage, and HPE GreenLake. billion , up 50% from the prior-year period.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2024

Securing the network One major aspect of Cathay’s cloud optimization plan is embracing Aryaka’s unified secure access service edge (SASE) converged networking, security, and observability platform across its global network, Nair says. It will replace the standard MPLS network, he adds.

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Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 21, 2023

Palo Alto Networks has been recognized as the sole Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Single-Vendor SASE. Today, Palo Alto Networks® was recognized as the only Leader in the inaugural 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Single-Vendor SASE. These offerings use a cloud-centric architecture and are delivered by one vendor.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

This week, VMware announced plans to acquire SD-WAN startup VeloCloud. Here are those headlines and more: VMware acquires VeloCloud as it moves deeper into networking (TechCrunch). VMware announced Thursday that it is acquiring VeloCloud, a startup that provides cloud-based WAN. This week’s top story picks from the Kentik team.

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CIO

AUGUST 30, 2022

On July 8, 2022, a botched maintenance update on the Rogers ISP network in Canada crashed internet access across the country for at least 12 hours, with some customers experiencing problems for days afterward. For Sapper Labs, “the Rogers outage reinforced our confidence in our own architecture and mode of operation,” McMahon says.

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Megaport

JANUARY 10, 2022

IDC predicted 2021 would be the year of multicloud, and as businesses expanded and embraced a cloud-first approach, this prediction proved accurate, with Megaport reporting a record increase of multicloud services like Megaport Cloud Router in Q4 FY2021.

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Megaport

JANUARY 10, 2022

IDC predicted 2021 would be the year of multicloud, and as businesses expanded and embraced a cloud-first approach, this prediction proved accurate, with Megaport reporting a record increase of multicloud services like Megaport Cloud Router in Q4 FY2021.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Today we announced an evolutionary leap forward for network operations (NetOps), solving for today’s biggest network challenge: effectively managing hybrid complexity and scale, at speed. From the very beginning, the Kentik Platform was designed to collect the most granular data from terabit-scale networks.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Tests between Busan and Quebec Tests between Seoul and Quebec It is hard to know exactly why some parts of Azure’s connectivity were impacted while others were not without intimate knowledge of their architecture, but we can surmise that Azure’s loss of connectivity varied greatly depending on the source and destination. 16, 158.0.0.0/16,

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Kentik

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We highlighted the great value-add that Kentik’s service provider customers can now deliver to their end-customers with real-time network data insights. The “My Kentik” portal is a built-in feature of the Kentik platform that enables curated, self-service network traffic visibility for downstream customers. How “My Kentik” can help.

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

On May 27 of this year, Gartner Research Director Sanjit Ganguli released a research note titled “Network Performance Monitoring Tools Leave Gaps in Cloud Monitoring.” You’d put a few others — I emphasize “few” because these appliances were and are not cheap — at other major choke points in and out of the network.

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Ivanti

JUNE 20, 2023

Cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) solutions enable such organizations to identify all their assets — including those that are unauthorized and unmanaged — so they can be secured, managed or even removed from the enterprise network. 4: Implement network segmentation and microsegmentation.

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Infinidat

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

To do that, let’s add a few more dimensions into the discussion: The Movement to a Data-Centric Architecture. Charlie Giancarlo from Pure Storage wrote an excellent blog about the architectural shift from “big compute” with large, legacy applications, to small, transient/stateless compute (e.g. Isn’t the WAN Connected to the Cloud?

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CIO

MAY 23, 2023

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. The spread of convergence Convergence is important to reducing cybersecurity complexity because it brings together the network and its security infrastructure into a single layer.

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Palo Alto Networks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

There are many sources of vulnerabilities within our critical infrastructure, including the typically unsegmented networks, open policies and the software vulnerabilities within the often unpatched/unpatchable legacy systems themselves (e.g. This is an important consideration when calculating risk. HMI, PLC, ICS, SCADA, DCS, MES).

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Kentik

OCTOBER 10, 2016

This post is based on a webinar presented by Jim Frey, VP Strategic Alliances at Kentik, on Network Performance Management for cloud and digital operations. Defining Network Performance Monitoring. Is the network is doing what is expected for delivering applications and services? So NPM is about another set of metrics.

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CIO

APRIL 4, 2023

1] As the cloud continues to play a key role in building resilience and enabling agility, the role of the network is more critical than ever before. without a modern network to support it. How should IT organizations modernize their network management in response to new market pressures and how can a cloud-based approach help?

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Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 18, 2024

Palo Alto Networks Named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge Today, Palo Alto Networks is proud to announce that it has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE). We remain the only vendor to be recognized as a Leader in both categories.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Last week’s big story in the networking space was the route leak at major backbone provider Level 3 Communications, which triggered disruptions to Internet service nationwide. As we’ve posted in the past , we operate our own infrastructure and we use our own network traffic intelligence platform — Kentik Detect — to monitor our services.

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Kentik

JULY 24, 2019

Our company was created with a vision of solving any problem for any user wishing to analyze and mine their network traffic data. Our platform has been proven to scale to support the largest networks in the world—while providing rapid query and responses—without rolling up data, thanks to our data architecture.

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Firemon

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Kurkal reports that the number of conversations his company is having about how to use automation to support innovation has more than doubled over the same time last year. “IT He reports seeing a tremendous focus on making sure everything purchased is used fully and that its maintenance is on point. “If,

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Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 16, 2023

Today, Palo Alto Networks was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Edge Solutions, Q3 2023. Zero Trust edge (ZTE) architecture delivers networking and security functions as a service, otherwise known as a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Prisma SASE delivers superior and cloud-delivered ZTNA 2.0

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CIO

JULY 11, 2022

Likewise, edge computing continues to mature, bolstered by ever more powerful, available, and diverse wireless networks. With widely available broadband, dedicated Ethernet options, plus access to private wireless networks, IT leaders have access to more modes of bandwidth than ever before. A hybrid approach to the modern workplace.

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Kentik

OCTOBER 3, 2016

On September 20, Kentik announced Kentik NPM, the first network performance monitoring solution designed for the speed, scale, and architecture of today’s digital business. Our Network Performance Management solution, Kentik NPM, sits on top of the Kentik Detect platform. Excerpts from the full podcast are presented below.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As the chief business transformation and technology officer at Twinings Ovaltine (TwO), some might imagine Sandeep Seeripat’s role to be the epitome of what a senior technology executive should be, with a remit beyond IT operations, an authoritative voice in the boardroom and a reporting line straight to the CEO.

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Perficient

MARCH 27, 2023

Networking Infrastructure: Designing your platform’s backbone networking model, core infrastructure shared services, domain controllers, DNS configuration, traffic routing optimization, and IP address management. Cloud Governance: Effective governance policies and guardrails to ensure secure, compliant deployments across teams.

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 19, 2021

At Palo Alto Networks, we are leading the charge for application security and continuing to solve the greatest security challenges that your cloud-centric organization faces today with software as a service (SaaS). Existing cloud access security brokers (CASBs) are restrictive because of various architectural and operational limitations.

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taos

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Technical Consultant If applications like SAP, Oracle, People Soft, and Voice/ Video over IP and or email are running over the WAN (wide area network) then optimization of the bandwidth is a must. Increasing the WAN bandwidth may work for a little while, but eventually, the problem of slow application response will occur again.

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Firemon

APRIL 9, 2021

Global Independent Study of 500 Senior Level Respondents Provides Clear Picture for the Future of Network Security. Network Security. Full Report. This is part 3 of a 6-part series addressing The Future of Network Security findings. 5 Top Drivers of Zero Trust Architecture. Resource Hub. The Future of. Infographic.

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Ivanti

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Bandwidth utilization in the Agent Policy manages network performance by allowing users to set the percentage of WAN/LAN bandwidth to be used when downloading patch content packages from Ivanti Neurons. Added logging capability for enterprise security and network logging. Ability to create reports based on hardware attributes.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Time-series reporting for performance optimization. And any time you have to deal with something more than a single box can handle, you introduce a whole host of complications (network, NUMA, coordination, and serialization, to name just a few). Once upon a time, life was simple. And that leads us to metrics. Simple, right?

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 30, 2020

Applications and data moving to the cloud and increased user mobility are changing the way networking and network security services must be delivered. In this ongoing series, Palo Alto Networks thought leaders explore the core tenets of an integrated, effective SASE solution, and more broadly, its implementation and implications.

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Firemon

APRIL 23, 2021

Global Independent Study of 500 Senior Level Respondents Provides Clear Picture for the Future of Network Security. Network Security. Full Report. This is part 4 of a 6-part series addressing The Future of Network Security findings. Replacing legacy VPN with Zero Trust Network Access. Resource Hub. The Future of.

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