PRTG & IP Fabric – making sure your network behaves as you intend
As networks become ever more critical to the operation of your business, complexity continues to increase. So you need to be sure that your monitoring platform is genuinely giving you visibility of the network devices. IP Fabric can help you answer the question “Am I…
Ensuring your network is secure as you intended – Part 3
In my past two blog post, I called out very specific security use cases for I Fabric, today I’m going to go the opposite way and talk about two very common, dare I say it pervasive problems. Configuration Compliance OS Version control and standardization My…
Are you really monitoring all of your network?
As networks become ever more critical to the operation of your business, complexity continues to increase. So you need to be sure that your monitoring platform is genuinely giving you visibility of the network devices. IP Fabric can help you answer the question “Am I…
Ensuring your environment is secure as you intended – part 2
In a world where security is getting more and more complex, how do you know what you’re doing is accomplishing what you want? Today we will discuss another IP Fabric Network Security Assurance use case. One that not only could make you more secure but…
2020, A year like no other.
New Year. Two words that I was looking forward since pretty much the start of last year. As years go 2020 proved to be one of the most challenging that I have experienced, the signs for 2021 being similar are a tad ominous right now….
Proactive Health Check?
The prefix “pro” quite literally means “before.” If an individual is proactive, it means that they make things happen instead of waiting for things to happen to them. Thus, being proactive means being ready if something happens: the opposite of being reactive. When we think about network and…
Why “Network Automation”?
Recently I’ve found myself having conversations about just when and why network engineers should be considering a mode of operation we’ll describe as “Network Automation”. Networking folks are investing huge amounts of their own time learning about Python, APIs, and network device programmability to query…
Ensuring your environment is secure as you intended
In a world where security is getting more and more complex, how do you know what you’re doing is accomplishing what you want? Is that firewall rule actually stopping your applications or IP from reaching the outside world? Is your well-crafted micro segmentation policy dynamically…
Network Time Traveller
As a network manager in today’s world, we are expected to be time travellers and mind readers………………… let that digest for a second 🤔 We need to know exactly what has happened (even before your time) and what is going to happen. Baselining your infrastructure and…
Data Visibility
We are all looking for that chink of sunlight in the blanket of darkness, in a year which has felt pretty dark and miserable, expecting and anticipating the sun to come and brighten the days up seems to be in the distant future. The same…