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Why latency is the new outage

Kentik

Not as difficult as time travel, but it’s difficult enough so that for 30+ years IT professionals have tried to skirt the issue by adding more bandwidth between locations or by rolling out faster routers and switches. Over the last few decades network managers have focused on adding bandwidth and reducing the network outages.

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Hybrid vs. Multi-cloud: The Good, the Bad and the Network Observability Needed

Kentik

This allows DevOps teams to configure the application to increase or decrease the amount of system capacity, like CPU, storage, memory and input/output bandwidth, all on-demand. For example, some DevOps teams feel that AWS is more ideal for infrastructure services such as DNS services and load balancing.

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Why is my SaaS application so slow?

Kentik

This is sort of a long shot, but are you using a corporate DNS server? You might try temporarily switching to a public DNS like Google’s 8.8.8.8. DNS lookups can introduce significant latency on new connections. Notice above that the routers used in the connection are looking pretty snappy. Check your local network.

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Today’s Enterprise WAN Isn’t What It Used To Be

Kentik

Yes, there’s something to say about how applications are written, but on the public internet side, we’ve seen a decrease in latency, cost, and a massive increase in available bandwidth. We still need to connect our infrastructure to the public internet, so the enterprise WAN is still about routers, circuit IDs, and perimeter firewalls.

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Practical Steps for Enhancing Reliability in Cloud Networks - Part I

Kentik

Be it power supplies, servers, routers, load balancers, proxies, or any other physical and virtual network components, the horizontal scaling that redundancy provides is the ultimate safety net in the presence of failure or atypical traffic demands. Top talkers are often the cause of outages for application stacks.

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Mirai Malware Targeting the Enterprise

CATO Networks

The infamous malware that crippled global DNS provider Dyn, French Web host OVH and security journalist Brain Krebs Web site with botnets of infected home routers, baby monitors and other IoT devices is now infecting enterprise network equipment, according to a recent Palo Alto Networks blog and Network Computing article.

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Rise of the UberNet

CATO Networks

As a result, SD-WAN adopters have remained chained to their MPLS services, paying exorbitant bandwidth fees just to deliver these core applications. Redundant Provider Edge (PE) MPLS-enabled routers, switches, and other appliances were needed in each point-of-presence (PoP). But that doesnt have to be the case.

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