​The recently released 2019 State of the Cloud report by RightScale found that 58% of 800 technical professionals surveyed use a hybrid strategy [1]. Combining on-premises, virtual, and cloud-based resources offers great flexibility, but managing hybrid IT is also more complex. IT teams need new strategies to monitor their hybrid infrastructure eff...

​Network experts already know that distributing the correct time is key to maintaining their critical infrastructure programs. However, keeping accurate time is also fundamental to many cybersecurity applications. Certificates have an expiration date attached to them, and system logs frequently contain time stamps that operators rely on for diagnos...

How do you ensure maximum service availability while protecting and securing your enterprise? IT departments have been wrestling with this problem for years. Virtualization and mobility are expanding the traditional network boundary, which means data and assets no longer sit in a single location behind a firewall.  Network security monitoring ...

​Why This Case Study is Relevant It demonstrates the importance of installing anti-jam and anti-spoofing software. Background  ​A major international financial services provider was experiencing issues in their lab environment with its GNSS-based timing systems. GNSS reception was being intermittently lost and the customer didn't know why. Rat...

​Canada's leading rural fixed-wireless broadband provider Xplornet Communications has announced an initiative to deploy '5G-ready' 100Mbps services to an additional 80,000 rural homes and businesses in Eastern Ontario, supported by rollout of over 600km of fibre infrastructure. Assisted by a contribution of up to CAD16 million (USD12.2 million) fro...

When: Thursday, September 12, 2019  ​At: 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time Join John Fischer, Omer Sharar, and John Pottle as they describe common threats rot GPS/GNSS signals as well as solutions to detect and mitigate interference such as jamming and spoofing for critical systems. You'll hear from industry experts who will present commercial and...

​Each of us has sat in standstill traffic, trying to understand why this major highway we drive all the time has suddenly backed up, with our phone maps application showing a line of red for the next mile or two. As we crawl towards the bottleneck, we see it: A fender bender with dented cars still blocking a lane of traffic. We see police on the sc...

Continuing our focus on the challenge of performance monitoring in the Cloud, David Hock, Director of Research at Infosim, discusses their approach to "Multi-Cloud Monitoring." We interviewed David Hock and this is what he had to say. ​You discuss Multi-Cloud monitoring, what do you mean by that term? Sourcing of services from different Cloud servi...

Monitoring tools have always been critical for ensuring network performance and security. Top vendors have designed new tools specifically for monitoring networks with virtualization, cloud infrastructure, distributed data centers, and edge computing. Way back in 2016, Enterprise Management Associates found that 24% of enterprises used 6-10 monitor...

​With the popularity of SaaS platforms on the rise, network performance metrics become an invaluable tool in the hands of network administrators, who cannot afford to waste time resolving issues that originate outside their network. Office 365, G Suite, Salesforce and many other SaaS platforms are replacing applications operated in-house by IT depa...

​Bell Canada has released a statement claiming that a regulatory decision to reduce wholesale broadband rates will negatively impact its high speed access network expansion in smaller towns and rural communities, reducing the scope of its current plans in such areas by 20%, or approximately 200,000 households. On 15 August the Canadian Radio-televi...

Cybersecurity is the watchword of the day, but what does it mean for Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT)? For many, the ability to hack or spoof a GPS/GNSS signal is a cybersecurity issue. At Orolia, we agree, which is why we have a wide array of products to augment, toughen and protect against GNSS vulnerabilities. However, the other aspect i...

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has ordered the country's large telcos and cablecos to reduce tariffs for wholesale broadband network services charged to smaller ISPs, in a move which it says will 'facilitate greater competition and promote innovative broadband services and more affordable prices for consumers...

CloudLens Self-Hosted 5.1 provides packet-level visibility into restricted cloud environments to detect security vulnerabilities and increase application and network performance monitoring ​SANTA ROSA, Calif., July 31, 2019 – Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governm...

NetOps and SecOps Collide Over 600 IT professionals weigh in on the workloads, challenges, data sources and team collaboration required to safeguard critical corporate assets. Study Highlights: Network team role in security increases: Over 80% of network teams play a role in security efforts including investigations and clean-up, implementation and...

In today's 24x7, "always on" world, the company's data network must be as reliable as possible. Otherwise, revenue reduction and productivity losses are not only possible, but probable. This includes inline security and monitoring tools which can become a single point of failure. Security and monitoring tool survivability is often thought about in ...

​Full internet encryption is on the horizon and with it the risk that hackers will gain access to your computer network. When you open any website today, it is highly probable you will see a small padlock in front of the address. For the everyday internet user, this is the only visible sign that the site is secure and communication with the site is...

​Orolia would like to take this opportunity to inform our customers of a Preventative Maintenance Action (PMA) to your SecureSync 1200 and NetClock 9400 appliances. This PMA is being executed to prevent unexpected failures caused by flash memory corruption within these appliances. Our SecureSync 1200 and NetClock 9400 line of products have an inter...

​Last year completely refuted doubts about the increasing cyber security risks. Hackers, obtained sensitive data on hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Merkel and accessed data relating to tens of millions of Facebook accounts. The year also confirmed that hacking has become a means for political activists and an effective tool for...

Threats to network security are on the rise. Take a look at Ixia's 2019 Security Report to get actionable insights on how you can strengthen your security strategy. Ixia's 3rd annual Security Report outlines six key security trends and offers recommendations for addressing the challenges these trends pose to your enterprise. Read the report and sta...