I was recently collaborating with the NetBeez team on a #WFH webinar only to find a service provider update impacting services. What a hassle. No warning. No advisory on any channels we pay to watch. That real estate is reserved for paid advertising or promoting (ironically) new premium service bundles….
COVID-19 forced an overnight shift upon us which facilitated a world-wide “work from home” for as many employees as deemed necessary and feasible. The initial hurdle for each IT department was to set up the basics to enable employees to get their work done – VPN tunneling was among them. …
A 2020 Dice survey of tech workers found roughly 53% preferred to work from home. Participants included employees of some of the world’s most admired technology companies, from Apple and Google to Microsoft. Many pundits are already speculating that remote work will become even more popular, not because of COVID-19,…
What’s NFV? NFV (Network Function Virtualization) uses machine virtualization to abstract network services such as content filtering, load balancing, etc. Such services are referred to as Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) and replace the function of dedicated appliances. Instead of using standalone and sometimes purpose-built hardware, VNF services run on top…
There are a few open-source and free tools out there that can help visualize the path traversed between two hosts. We’ve talked about mtr and traceroute, and recently I came across Dublin traceroute. Actually, the inventor of Dublin traceroute maintains his own blog here, and there you can find many…
Why did we develop a Remote Workers Agent? COVID-19 came full swing in the US in the middle of March of 2020. We were suddenly bombarded with requests such as, “How do we use NetBeez to troubleshoot VPN issues” and “My boss says blaming my ISP for network issues is…
Run NetBeez on a Smart SFP I am happy to announce that NetBeez and PlumSpace, a vendor of Smart SFPs, have successfully tested an integration between the two company’s products. This integration enables PlumSpace users to install NetBeez agents on their Smart SFPs and gain the benefits of high performance…
With the rise of the remote work/telework, network engineers have shifted from being enablers of connectivity to drivers of productivity. As a former network engineer, I realize this isn’t a trivial shift. Given the impact the recent pandemic is having on the nature of the workplace, we need to consider…
Times are changing. The network is growing even more strategic and complex. Here’s how your team can keep up. In a recent article, Stefano Gridelli, CEO of NetBeez, discusses the drivers of network complexity in the new remote/#WFH era. There are certain “must have” capabilities required to scale network team…
Hundreds of miles away from their headquarters they’ve added a new switch in a manufacturing plant. There is a bandwidth issue, but they cannot pinpoint the problem. On-site personnel think it’s the network, but their WAN monitoring tools indicate their switches and routers are properly functioning. Yet the intermittent problems…
