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Skype for Business has become a standard for business communications, offering a wide range of really useful collaboration tools such as voice, messaging, conferencing, and distance learning. In my work environment, collaboration is an employee expectation and when it fails, productivity takes a…

In the webinar Best Practices for Network Security Resilience, I explained the concept of network security resilience and how to implement it. However, successful implementation relies upon making the fundamental mind shift to the strategy. One cannot expect to see the benefits if they don’t…

In a recent webinar, Best Practices for Security Resilience, Jon Oltsik (an analyst from ESG Research Group) and I discussed the topic of network security resilience. The basic concept is that it is not a question of “IF” your company network will be breached, but “WHEN”. The real question for you…

Ixia has maintained a lasting presence at the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC18 this year). Over the years, we’ve provided Higher Speed Ethernet product demonstrations alongside various partners and we consistently offer traffic generation systems for circuit verification of the conference…

Network management and monitoring is a large topic. It includes device monioring and management, device cluster monitoring and management,network monitoring and management, application monitoring and management, problem resolution, and elements of network security as well. In this blog, I wanted to…

In one of my previous blog posts, I was emphasizing the fact that IPsec is not going away anytime soon and, based on customer engagements, it is quite the opposite—we are seeing it deployed in many diverse environments. Now, we have yet another confirmation of the important role IPsec is playing…

One of the key factors of any IT purchase is the usability of the product or solution. In fact, usability can make or break the total cost of ownership (TCO) for most projects. This is especially true for network monitoring solutions. The term “usability” includes the initial programming and set up…

Public cloud usage is widespread in enterprises and public sector environments worldwide. The most recent RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud report found that 92 percent of enterprises surveyed used public cloud in production, and 38 percent specified public cloud as their top deployment platform.…