Infrastructure monitoring products: Users pinpoint the best and worst features

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Network World Net Optimization Alert Jun 09, 2016 Infrastructure monitoring products: Users pinpoint the best and worst features Monitoring software for servers, networks and applications is supposed to help IT departments spot problems early and avoid business downtime. At IT Central Station, IT managers provide their peers with insights about the pros and cons of four leading products: CA Unified Infrastructure Management, SevOne, Nagios and Opsview Enterprise. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Open source networking: The time is now • Emergency responders might share their LTE network with the rest of us • Cisco: IP traffic will surpass the zettabyte level in 2016 • How to ensure new graduates aren't compromising enterprise networks • Arista launches Universal Leaf Platform • Security blindspots: websites, network architects, and third-party code • How to control the stealth IoT invasion • Enterprises are investing in network security analytics • To Wave 2 or not to Wave 2? White Paper: CA Technologies Forrester: Sizing the Market for API Management Solutions This report summarizes the key factors contributing to growth in the US API management solutions market, which we expect to triple in annual spending by the end of the decade. Read More ▶ Open source networking: The time is now We are never going back to proprietary networks. Today's world is all about open—from APIs to partnerships to end-to-end orchestrated services. Read More ▶ Emergency responders might share their LTE network with the rest of us The national LTE network for public safety that's planned for the U.S. might also boost cellphone performance with a network-sharing system proposed by a startup. Read More ▶ Cisco: IP traffic will surpass the zettabyte level in 2016 "Advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) are continuing to drive IP traffic and tangible growth in the market. Applications such as video surveillance, smart meters, digital health monitors and a host of other Machine-to-Machine services are creating new network requirements and incremental traffic increases. Globally, M2M connections are calculated to grow nearly three-fold from 4.9 billion in 2015 to 12.2 billion by 2020, representing nearly half (46%) of total connected devices," Cisco stated Read More ▶ How to ensure new graduates aren't compromising enterprise networks Learn how to keep an eye on those recent college grads Read More ▶ Arista launches Universal Leaf Platform Last month, Arista Networks put the core router market in the crosshairs with it's Universal Spine system. This week Arista complimented this by announcing a Universal Leaf network platform powered by its new 7280R switch series. Read More ▶ Security blindspots: websites, network architects, and third-party code How much do network architects take security into account when building websites, and does testing extend out to third-party code? Read More ▶ How to control the stealth IoT invasion IoT devices are invading the enterprise, often by stealth. This creates headaches for the network engineer, but they are manageable: an enterprise IoT management solution requires just a handful of functions. Read More ▶ Enterprises are investing in network security analytics Dangerous threats and new requirements are persuading organizations to collect, process and analyze more and more network telemetry and threat intelligence. Read More ▶ To Wave 2 or not to Wave 2? The second wave of wireless networking gear based on the 802.11ac standard – collectively, "wave 2" – is the current cutting edge of Wi-Fi technology. But there's a school of thought out there that it's not a necessary upgrade for many companies. 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