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Smarter Network Capacity Planning with Flow-Based Analytics

Network teams face a constant balancing act between performance and cost. Underestimate network demand, and users feel the pain of latency and dropped connections....

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Why Flow Replication Is the Cornerstone of Scalable Network Intelligence

When visibility tools start to multiply, so do points of failure. Every new collector means another configuration, another dependency, and another potential gap. Over...

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The Hidden Costs of Limited Flow Visibility 

Flow visibility may be easy to forever leave on the back burner, but its absence is one of the most expensive problems in IT....

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Top 5 Reasons to Use UDP Replication 

In any organization, the network is both the backbone of operations and the first witness to incidents. Every service outage, every anomaly, and every...

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These Common Product Flaws in Monitoring Solutions Still Frustrate Us

Network monitoring tools are supposed to be the eyes and ears of your IT infrastructure, providing the visibility needed to keep operations running smoothly....

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How to improve response time for life-critical network events with Plixer Scrutinizer

The healthcare industry has been on red alert for more than a year now. Workloads have doubled and the amount of time required to...

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I installed Scrutinizer 100 times and here’s what I learned

As a Presales Engineer, I spend a good portion of my time helping with Scrutinizer installs and helping troubleshoot unique use cases for end...

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Monitoring QoS for application troubleshooting

Network and security teams collect flow and metadata to provide an accurate account of applications traversing the network. Another aspect of troubleshooting poor application...