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Virtual Network Functions in VPC and Integration With Event Notifications in IBM Cloud

Dzone - DevOps

What Are Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)? Previously, proprietary hardware performed functions like routers, firewalls, load balancers, etc. VNFs are virtualized network services that are packaged as virtual machines (VMs) on commodity hardware. These hardware functions are packaged as virtual machine images in a VNF.

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Network Architect vs Network Engineer

The Crazy Programmer

Should you be a network engineer vs network architect? There are thousands of job opportunities available in the IT industry for network engineers and network architects. Thus, in this article, we will help you by telling you about the difference between network engineer and network architect.

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The Network Also Needs to be Observable, Part 2: Network Telemetry Sources

Kentik

In part 1 of this series , I talked about the importance of network observability as our customers define it — using advances in data platforms and machine learning to supply answers to critical questions and enable teams to take critical action to keep application traffic flowing. Access and transit networks, edge and exchange points, CDNs.

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Optimizing Network Stability and Reliability Through Data-Driven Strategies

Kentik

What do network engineers working in the trenches, slinging packets, untangling coils of fiber, and spending too much time in the hot aisle really want from all their efforts? They want a rock-solid, reliable, stable network that doesn’t keep them awake at night and ensures great application performance. The answer is simple.

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NetOps for Application Developers: Understanding the Importance of Network Operations in Modern Development

Kentik

At scale, and primarily when carried out in cloud and hybrid-cloud environments, these distributed, service-oriented architectures and deployment strategies create a complexity that can buckle the most experienced network professionals when things go wrong, costs need to be explained, or optimizations need to be made.

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Azure VMware Solution: Connectivity (Part 1)

Perficient

In this article, we’ll review network connections for integrating AVS into other Azure services and systems outside of Azure. Since AVS supports both, the gateway can be deployed in either a Hub & Spoke topology or Virtual WAN. Scale units are used instead of a specific SKU when creating a gateway within Virtual WAN.

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Announcing Complete Azure Observability for Kentik Cloud

Kentik

Kentik customers move workloads to (and from) multiple clouds, integrate existing hybrid applications with new cloud services, migrate to Virtual WAN to secure private network traffic, and make on-premises data and applications redundant to multiple clouds – or cloud data and applications redundant to the data center.

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