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• Network engineer skills for an SDN world

  To compete in a software-defined industry, networking professionals need to learn and adapt. Expert Terry Slattery explains which network engineer skills are most important in SDN. Continue Reading

• What's the best way to handle end-of-sale devices on your network?

  A majority of organizations have end-of-sale and end-of-life devices on their networks. What's the best way to ensure your equipment is up to date? Continue Reading

• How to select the best network monitoring tool

  Enterprise employees now rely heavily on network connections to run critical applications and otherwise conduct daily business. That makes the networking professional's ability to monitor and manage the network mission-critical. Network pros require... Continue Reading

• Time to erase IT friction between InfoSec, NetOps

  IT friction between your security and network operations personnel sap productivity. Maybe it's time for everyone to work together. Continue Reading

• Supporting wireless infrastructure as devices proliferate

  In this Q&A, one IT pro shares the challenges of supporting wireless infrastructure in student housing, where residents have more devices than ever. Continue Reading

• WAN optimization techniques pace IT investment

  TechTarget's most recent Networking Purchasing Intentions survey reveals IT's priority to invest in WAN optimization techniques in the next 12 months.Continue Reading

• NIA: Saisei's FlowCommand SDN appliance secures network flows

  Saisei, our latest Network Innovation Award winner, uses its FlowCommand virtual SDN appliance to control network flows and prevent individual users from hogging bandwidth.Continue Reading

• Infrastructure convergence offers high availability, improved ops

  When Patrick Hubbard's iPhone falls into a pool, he is reminded about the value of converged infrastructure.Continue Reading

• SDN monitoring means new transitions for engineers

  SDN network management means tools are transforming from listening mode to active mode.Continue Reading

• Facing network breach threats, visibility is key

  In this Q&A, an IT pro at Penn Mutual shares how his dual strategy of user education and Layer 7 visibility helps prevent network breaches.Continue Reading

• The future of WAN optimization: SD-WAN

  Network managers today are less likely to be sweating over how traffic from traditional applications like SharePoint performs over the wide area network (WAN) compared to cloud apps that users access via the Internet.

  This shift, along with ...Continue Reading

• Software containers can create problems in the network

  Software containers offer attractive alternatives to hypervisors, but in large-scale deployments, they can cause problems for network engineers.Continue Reading

• Mobile, video content delivery key to next-gen metro networks

  SDN and NFV applications could be the answer to make mobile and video content delivery in the metro network more agile for delivering enterprise services.Continue Reading

• Overcoming the challenges of wiring farm networks

  The sound of mooing and the smell of diesel fuel are just part of what makes wiring a farm for networking a special experience.Continue Reading

• Tools you need to become your own network cloud manager

  An ever-increasing percentage of enterprise workloads is moving to the cloud. Now is the time for IT pros to acquire the cloud-monitoring tools a next-gen network requires.Continue Reading