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The importance of having complete network visibility today can’t be overstated. If an organization can’t see into its network infrastructure, the consequences can be detrimental. With comprehensive network visibility, enterprises and service providers can identify and address network outages, enhance security, and deal with potential regulatory compliance issues—before there’s any negative impact on the business. But fo...

Organizations across the world are still continuing to come to terms with last week’s massive “WannaCry” ransomware attack, which crippled IT infrastructure on an unprecedented scale. In this post, we examine the nature and impact of this threat and why it requires pervasive and advanced network visibility for dynamic threat detection and remediation.

As communication networks — the internet in particular — continue to evolve, enterprises must adopt new and efficient technologies, such as cloud computing and virtualization, to improve their networks’ monitoring, security, and overall network visibility.

Enabling Non-disruptive, Resilient Threat Monitoring Enterprise data centers are experiencing tremendous growth in network traffic, as consumption of applications and content continues to rise rapidly in the information era. In addition, the widespread adoption of server virtualization is changing the direction of data center network traffic flows from the North/South flow of client-server applications to the East/West of server-to-server traffic. These dynamics require the da...

It’s not hard to fill the seats at the San Diego Data Connectors Conference on a 70-degree farenheit day in April. The event was at a central San Diego location, allowing attendees to easily exsplore many of San Diego’s attractions such as the Gaslamp District, Padres Baseball, beautiful beaches, and, of course, great Mexican food! Although everyone was actively participating and engaging, you could feel the desire to step outside for a breath of fresh air.

There are so many trending things in the tech world these days. From robots and drones to self-driving cars. What's next? In the network visibility space, what's next is our upcoming 800 Gigabit Network Packet Broker!

Last month, we attended the RSA Conference 2017 in the heart of San Francisco! RSA Conference Chairman Hugh Thompson opened up with an anecdote representing that many organizations have cracks, and sometimes employees find themselves in situations where they don't know how to close the cracks or solve those problems. With so many cyber security threats, it is difficult to know when one will find himself or herself in one of these unexpected situations, or cracks.

Recently, we attended CableLabs Winter Conference at Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, FL. The event was flowing with Cable Operators, CableLabs’ employees, and vendors (like us). It was a great chance for the operators to come together and discuss innovations in the cable space, as well as to network with fellow peers. Additionally, the conference was packed with exciting and thought provoking content. Speeches included the keynote speech by Phil McKinney (CEO of CableLabs), the Da...

Whether you’ve been in the IT, Network Monitoring, or Network Security industries for a short period or for a long period, you’ve probably been asked, “to SPAN or not to SPAN?" Today’s your lucky day because you will learn how to best answer this question both for yourself and for the next time a colleague or prospect asks you.