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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? The resulting network can be considered multi-cloud.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. Cloud systems administrator Cloud systems administrators are charged with overseeing the general maintenance and management of cloud infrastructure.

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Where No (Enterprise) WAN Has Gone Before

Kentik

Enterprise WAN in 2023 Enterprise networking in 2023 is very much the same. To succeed as an engineer in this new network, and to successfully manage the infrastructure and services that deliver applications to people, we must rid ourselves of two-dimensional thinking.

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Data Gravity in Cloud Networks: Achieving Escape Velocity

Kentik

But what are network operators to do when their cloud networks have to be distributed, both architecturally and geographically? As a cloud network scales, three forces compete against the acceptable accumulation of this gravity: cost, performance, and reliability. One of my personal experiences is with identity.

Network 59
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Kentik Firehose: The Missing Piece in Full-stack Monitoring

Kentik

Networks are pervasive. Although often unpretentiously represented by a single line or reduced to their famous canonic cloud bubble form, modern networks are anything but that simple. So everything network-related is hidden in basic representations. The time has come to bring the networks you depend on into a full Hi-Fi view.

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Network Insight is Essential for Communications Service Consumers

Kentik

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. Hold your thoughts for a moment and think about managing the infrastructure OpEx in your business. Even better, you can make suggestions on choosing different utility vendors.

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NPM, encryption, and the challenges ahead: Part 1 of 2

Kentik

It’s interesting to observe how encryption and network performance monitoring (NPM) have evolved over time. When I first entered the networking industry right out of college, many applications sent passwords over the network in clear text, unencrypted. Consider SD-WAN as another example of DoH causing problems.

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