Cisco Network Monitoring: 6 Best Practices

Introduction

It's often said that your network is the backbone of your IT infrastructure, underlying every other part of your enterprise IT. If your Cisco network infrastructure goes down or is experiencing performance issues, it's crucial that you have a real-time solution to identify and resolve the problem as soon as possible.         

But what does such a solution look like when it comes to Cisco networks? In this article, we'll discuss six best practices for Cisco network monitoring, network management, and troubleshooting, so that you're always getting the highest network performance possible.

Do Graph Databases Scale?

Graph Databases are a great solution for many modern use cases: Fraud Detection, Knowledge Graphs, Asset Management, Recommendation Engines, IoT, Permission Management … you name it. 

All such projects benefit from a database technology capable of analyzing highly connected data points and their relations fast – Graph databases are designed for these tasks.

AWS Transit Gateway Examined – Part II

In a previous article, we talked about how AWS Transit Gateway is enabling on-premise infrastructure to interact with cloud infrastructure in a multi-cloud environment. We also covered how Transit Gateway can be fully automated using Terraform, with each VPC configured to work seamlessly as a part of a larger network.

AWS Transit Gateway has been updated since then. New features such as support for multicast allows AWS Transit Gateway to be more robust, especially when it comes to allowing services and VPCs to deliver data to multiple users at the same time. What are the changes added to AWS Transit Gateway? How can you benefit from the new features?