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Virtualization Monitoring: How to Gain Visibility into Your Virtual Environment

Virtualization offers many benefits to organizations. But at the same time, you’ll have to figure out how to monitor your virtual environment, because a...

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Why Data Enrichment Matters with NetFlow

Do you wanna build a NetFlow? Doesn’t have to be a NetFlow… Network metadata (NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, etc.) provides a wealth of information about...

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5 Reasons Service Providers Choose Scrutinizer

As a technical support engineer, I have worked with hundreds of customers across the globe. I typically ask them why they choose Scrutinizer as...

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Improving Real-Time Application Performance

Real-time applications have redefined the world around us. We can now hold meetings with members distributed across the world, play games with long-distance friends...

The IT Pro’s Guide to Super Effective Patch Management

Although it ought to be a basic task, patch management has nearly gotten out of control. Many vendors, to their credit, are quick to...

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Cisco ASA Access List Reporting

If you are ever out to dinner with friends talking about which network devices have the strangest exports, the Cisco ASA will certainly be...

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Securing the network from new devices

It’s that time of year again. Employees have gone away from the office to spend time with friends and family. They will, of course,...

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Using TCP Flags with NetFlow

NetFlow can give us all kinds of rich information about our network infrastructure. You’ll find standard fields with information like source and destination and...

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Network Visibility: Using Dashboards to Tell a Deeper Story

When it comes to network traffic monitoring, a single and unified view of your networking infrastructure is essential in ensuring that your environment is...

The Network Layers Explained

The Network Layers Explained [with examples]

In computer science, the concept of network layers is a framework that helps to understand complex network interactions. There are two models that are...