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

Kentik

One of the great successes of software development in the last ten years has been the relatively decentralized approach to application development made available by containerization, allowing for rapid iteration, service-specific stacks, and (sometimes) elegant deployment and orchestration implementations that piece it all together.

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Why SASE Sits At The Centre Of A Hybrid Workforce

CIO

“By architecting a cloud platform to be able to protect users no matter where they work, it’s possible to deliver that new way of working – but the challenge is ensuring a secure environment for staff to easily and safely access their applications no matter where they work.” Balmer provides an example of a doctor and their iPad.

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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. API gateways for digital services.

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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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Practical Steps for Enhancing Reliability in Cloud Networks - Part I

Kentik

Highly available networks are resistant to failures or interruptions that lead to downtime and can be achieved via various strategies, including redundancy, savvy configuration, and architectural services like load balancing. Resiliency. Resilient networks can handle attacks, dropped connections, and interrupted workflows.

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Using Device Telemetry to Answer Questions About Your Network Health

Kentik

With so many network boundaries being navigated (application, service, cloud providers, subnets, SD-WANs , etc.), Your switches, servers, transits, gateways, load balancers, and more are all capturing critical information about their resource utilization and traffic characteristics. What is device telemetry?

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How One MSP Improved Customer Satisfaction and Reduced Support Tickets

Kaseya

Because so many business applications we use are now in the Cloud, internet continuity is critical to daily operations, employee productivity and customer experience. MSPs need a way to leverage redundancy and intelligent software to give their customers the internet continuity and application experience that they expect.