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Why Network Metadata Is Becoming More Valuable Than Packets

For years, packet capture was considered the gold standard for network visibility. If you had the packets, you had the truth. But networks have...

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Why Root Cause Is Often Found Outside the Alert That Fired

Often, an alert feels definitive. A threshold was crossed; something measurable went wrong at a specific place and time. But in modern environments, alerts...

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Understanding the Impact of Unmonitored Cloud Egress

While cloud environments make it easy to scale applications and distribute services, many teams end up losing visibility into one critical aspect of cloud...

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The Operational Tax of Distributed Workloads And How Metadata Eliminates It

Modern infrastructure has become fluid. Workloads shift across cloud regions, containers scale up and down by the hour, and users connect from locations that...

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How to Investigate Lateral Movement Using Flow Data

Lateral movement is rarely loud. Once an attacker gains an initial foothold, the next phase often blends into normal network activity, using legitimate credentials,...

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Before You Upgrade Your Network: How to Prove Whether a Change Will Actually Help

Upgrades are often treated as the safest path forward when performance dips or congestion becomes visible. But for many NetOps teams, the challenge is...

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7 NetOps Mistakes in Capacity Planning and How to Fix Them with Flow Intelligence

Capacity planning has a direct impact on cost, performance, and credibility with leadership. Get it right, and the network quietly scales with the business....

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The Most Overlooked Ingredient in Successful Tool Consolidation

Tool consolidation is gaining momentum as organizations look for ways to reduce overhead, eliminate redundancy, and simplify their operations. Yet many consolidation initiatives pause...

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Why Tool Consolidation is Back on IT Leaders’ Agendas

Every December, renewal schedules pile up, contract reviews demand attention, and leaders are asked to justify tools purchased years ago under very different circumstances....