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What Deep Application Awareness means to Business

Deep Application Awareness is the ability to accurately identify different applications within a business.  What makes it difficult is that each application could be...

Catalyst 6509 NetFlow Support

Catalyst 6509 NetFlow support is essential, especially when the switch is set up as a core network device; this blog should help you get...

Monitoring the Quality of Skype Connections

Many B2B communications especially when connecting outside of the country are done with Skype? How are companies monitoring the quality of Skype connections?  You...

How to Detect Flame: Host Reputation

The Flame threat is basically a virtual, digitized spy tool that does what a human spy would do: recording phone calls, snapping photos, and siphoning...

A Firewall Monitoring Tool You Didn’t Know Existed: NetFlow and IPFIX

IT professionals have been looking for better ways to monitor and store firewall logs for years. Properly handled, firewall events can give insight into...

Zenoss NetFlow Zenpack

Have you been looking for a Zenpack that would allow seamless integration of Zenoss and the NetFlow tool Scrutinizer? Well you have come to...

Application Performance Management Done Right

What is Application Performance Management (APM)? Like a lot of good questions, it depends on your business needs.  What is the goal of an ideal...

NetFlow vs. sFlow for Network Monitoring and Security: The Final Say

We’ve blogged about the differences between NetFlow and sFlow before but this debate continues to come up often enough and has been going on...

Barracuda IPFIX Support: Network Threat Detection

Earlier this year Barracuda Networks enabled IPFIX support on their NG Series firewalls. This export provides great visibility into your network traffic as well...

Juniper XGS 5000 IPFIX Support: It’s really NetFlow

I got this google alert the other day and it caught my attention because it talked about configuring IPFIX and the link went to...