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Poor Work-from-Home Application Performance Drives Digital Experience (DX) Monitoring

CHALLENGE The forced transition to work-from-home (WHF), due to the 2020 pandemic, added an additional challenge to our customer’s application performance: the home network and its connection to the internet. [...]

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Digital Experience (DX) Monitoring – Intermittent BGP

Challenge Employees of a NetCraftsmen client reported highly variable performance of applications, particularly file transfers between two global locations. It was intermittent, with performance being acceptable at some times and [...]

Automation Update

There’s a lot of good stuff happening in the various tech areas I’m tracking. Among others, thank you, GestaltIT/TechFieldDay for all the great presentations. I’ve got quite a backlog of [...]

8 Trends to Watch in 2023

2022 has been a tumultuous year impacting all aspects of business as we emerged from the pandemic and dealt with issues such as supply chain, employee recruitment/retention, and a return [...]

What to Measure in a Network

NetCraftsmen is currently working with a customer with some interesting problems. I’d like to share some thoughts and lessons learned. Cheap Is Sometimes Not This first item is arguably obvious, [...]

Catchpoint

This is one of a small series of blogs about tools for monitoring user experience (a fancy term for response times, drop rates, etc.). I keep coming back to this [...]

Cisco ThousandEyes

I’m doing a couple of blogs about tools for monitoring user experience (fancy term for response times, drop rates, etc.). A prior blog covered NetBeez and started with some general [...]

NetBeez 2021 Update

This blog is an update about a useful network management/operations product, NetBeez. I drafted it as part of a small series on tools that monitor response time (and generally also [...]

Disaster Strikes – With Surprising Failures

You have a disaster recovery plan and you’re ready for that unexpected event that takes out your primary data center and your ability to conduct business. But are you really [...]

Digital Experience Monitoring: Addressing Those Nagging Network Performance Problems

You and your staff have been working from home since the pandemic started. Some staff has reported problems with slow applications, choppy voice, and pixelated video. The networking and applications [...]

Switch to Digital Experience Monitoring

It’s time to replace your application performance monitoring and real user monitoring systems with digital experience monitoring (DX) for a more comprehensive monitoring solution. What is Digital Experience Monitoring? Digital [...]

Network Field Day 23 Overview, or Throw Out Your Net Management Tools, They’re Obsolete!

Network Field Day 23 took place from September 29 through October 2. I was able to attend (virtually) since NetCraftsmen likes to track current trends to provide the best guidance [...]