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Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

Galido

As devices are discovered, probes will also detect the services and hardware it can monitor. Paessler PRTG Network Monitor’s licensing is based on sensors. Reducing the costs by buying only the hardware you need. Detailed reports. What to Monitor. Between 5-10 sensors are recommended to fully monitor a device.

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COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization

Scott Lowe

Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions. Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. For #2, we’ll examine the Intel DPDK.

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Fountainhead: Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud.

Fountainhead

However, certain environments are inherently bound to hardware and/or tested for performance, and these may need to remain "in-house" on specific hardware (see below) Inherent application functionality N Apps that are inherently "internal" Such as internal back-up software, "edge" applications like printer servers, etc. Ken Oestreich.

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Technology Short Take #50

Scott Lowe

This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt). Servers/Hardware. Here are some general guidelines for configuring syslog forwarding on a Cisco ASA firewall.

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Technology Short Take #48

Scott Lowe

A quick perusal of the ONF web site does not indicate that the OpenFlow materials are available anywhere under any open source license. This isn’t to say that they aren’t freely available, just not available under an open source license.). Servers/Hardware. However, it’s at least possible with whitebox networking gear.

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Technology Short Take #53

Scott Lowe

I think I’ve mentioned this before (it’s really hard to keep track of which articles you’ve included in a Technology Short Take already, so apologies if this is a duplicate), but this article provides a good overview of the VXLAN control plane modes in VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. Keep up the great work, Brent!) Virtualization.

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