
colinhales
- Dec 15, 2016
Nokia to acquire IP network analytics firm Deepfield
Nokia has announced plans to acquire Deepfield to improve the firm's IP network and data analytics solutions portfolio. Announced on December 15, Nokia said the deal to acquire the small US-based company "will extend Nokia's leadership in real-time, analytics-driven network and service automation" and will advance solutions including network and application insight and analytics and the chance to better protect networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Found

colinhales
- Dec 11, 2016
Application Visibility, a mission impossible?
Imagine any corporation with a public Internet connectivity or connections to offices across Canada connected by a private data communication (network) infrastructure, using WAN links, MPLS or Internet with or without VPN tunnels. This could be the application performance as perceived by your end-user: “Slow, unpredictable, no one knows what’s going on.” Whereas the IT department believes that the quality of service delivered is spot-on: “all lights are on green, we don’t hav

colinhales
- Dec 11, 2016
Something is bogging down your network, you just don't know what it is yet.
A shocking statement for some of you, others may already know it but have put in the 'To Look At One Day' tray. Most just don't even want to know. The problem is that your network is being bogged down by all sorts of applications, recreational, business and even inappropriate traffic. The problem is that it's not going away. The problem is that it's growing as your reading this blog. The solution is to start measuring what's out there. Because you can only manage what you mea

colinhales
- Dec 5, 2016
Exabeam named as one of 38 enterprise startups that will boom in 2017, according to VC investors
2017 is almost here and Business Insider decided to once again time to predict which startups will take the tech industry by storm. They asked startup experts, the VCs that watch the industry, guide the startups, hear their pitches, and invest in them? Our partner Exabeam was one of the identified 2017 companies to watch. What Exabeam does: This is a security product that watches human behavior on the network to discover who is trying to hack or sabotage it. It can also be us