Kentik

JANUARY 3, 2017

Kentik Detect Recognized for Virtual Network Infrastructure. Kentik is honored to have been named by Forrester Research as a breakout vendor in the Virtual Network Infrastructure (VNI) space. Along with Kentik, the report includes Arista Networks, Nuage Networks, and VeloCloud. Interweaves layers from L2 through L7.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization Network Infrastructure Big Data 40

Kentik

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Even in networking, hard-core bastion of the command-line interface (CLI), APIs have become useful enough that commentators such as Chris Grundemann are blogging about whether the API is the new CLI for networking professionals. APIs for Kentik. We realize, however, that Kentik Detect alone may not cover all network use cases.

Open Source 40

Open Source Metrics Network System 40

Kentik

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Once upon a time, in a network monitoring reality not so far away…. I’ve known a good number of network engineers over time, and for many of the organizations we’ve all worked with or known, network monitoring has been distinctly old school. Quite the contrary—we were all used to building tools from open source software.

Analysis 40

Analysis Open Source Storage Network 40

Kentik

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Kentik Detect Recognized by IDC for Cloud-Based Network Monitoring. At Kentik, we’re honored to have been recognized recently as an IDC Innovator for Cloud-Based Network Monitoring. Why Kentik? That makes Kentik Detect notably distinct from traditional appliance-based approaches.

UI/UX 40

UI/UX Innovation Big Data Network 40

Kentik

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In the prevailing appliance-based model, an out-of-band appliance detects attacks based on NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and BGP data. Luckily, cloud-scale big data systems make it possible to implement a far more intelligent approach to the problem: Monitor the network-wide traffic level of millions of individual IP addresses.

Scalability 40

Scalability Architecture Big Data Analytics 40

Kentik

JULY 11, 2017

If you’re using legacy network monitoring tools, you often won’t realize that something has changed until a customer or user complains. In this blog post we’ll look at the basics of configuring this system to keep your team up to date on traffic that deviates from baselines or absolute norms. Kentik Alert Library.

Policies 40

Policies Comparison Metrics Network 40

Kentik

JULY 6, 2017

According to Gartner analyst Andrew Lerner in his June, 2017 blog post “ SD-WAN is going Mainstream ” there are an estimated 6000+ paying SD-WAN customers and 4000+ production deployments. One thing that needs to be carefully considered is the security ramifications of moving from a private MPLS circuit to a public Internet circuit.

WAN 40

WAN Technical Review Internet Firewall 40

Kentik

MARCH 6, 2019

This blog post is a good starting point to understand the networking model behind Kubernetes and how to make things simpler and more efficient. In this blog, we will focus on discussing Kubernetes.). native l3 using BGP, overlay using VXLAN, classic L2, or Cisco-SDN/ACI) for various use cases. A Refresh: Kubernetes Basics.

Network 63

Network Microservices .Net Load Balancer 63