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Using Device Telemetry to Answer Questions About Your Network Health

Kentik

For cloud network specialists, the landscape for their observability efforts includes a mix of physical and virtual networking devices. These devices generate signals (by design or through instrumentation) that provide critical information to those responsible for managing network health. What is network telemetry?

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Implementing a Cost-aware Cloud Networking Infrastructure

Kentik

What is cloud networking? Cloud networking is the IT infrastructure necessary to host or interact with applications and services in public or private clouds, typically via the internet. Why is cloud networking important? Cloud networking vs. cloud computing Cloud networking can be thought of as a subset of cloud computing.

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Network Capacity Planning 101: Requirements & Best Practices

Kentik

Modern networks are made up of a collection of routers, switches, firewalls, and other network elements. From a high-level perspective, network operators engage in network capacity planning to understand some key network metrics: Types of network traffic. Capacity of current network infrastructure.

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Closing the Network Performance Monitoring Gap and Achieving Full Network Visibility

Kentik

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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Podcast with Kentik CEO Avi Freedman & Jim Metzler

Kentik

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. But now you’ve got a really large big-data problem.