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OVERCOMING NETWORK MONITORING CHALLENGES IN SIX KEY STEPS
John Smith , Founder , CTO and EVP at LiveAction , asks how organizations can more effectively monitor network traffic . He offers six key steps for NetOps teams .
Today ’ s modern enterprise infrastructure environments continue to get more and more complex ( and broader ) as organizations look to manage a variety of domains including WAN , SD-WAN , data centers , public cloud and more .
As a result , visibility has become a critical component for ensuring network performance and security . But effectively monitoring network traffic can be challenging given the different technologies , access layers and rapid growth of the cloud .
Effectively monitoring network traffic can be challenging given the different technologies , access layers and rapid growth of the cloud .
So how can organizations more effectively monitor network traffic ? Let ’ s dive into six key steps for NetOps teams .
According to a SANS survey from last year , only 16 % of respondents believe they have high visibility into their east-west network traffic . And one of our reports from 2019 found that 35 % of network professionals have poor visibility into performance across all fabrics of the network .
1 ) A critical first step is being able to identify network data sources – which typically requires unifying data from multiple sources , especially in large organizations . The issue of tool sprawl is a welldocumented problem that can have a big impact on a team ’ s ability to do this effectively .
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