As remote work increasingly becomes the new normal, small to medium enterprises (SMEs) today are searching eagerly for reputable IT resellers and system integrators to facilitate the best possible transition. From local businesses to municipal governments, healthcare facilities, and schools, a smooth and cost-efficient restructuring of organizational infrastructure involving cloud-based VPNs...
In the past year, COVID-19 has forced many companies to accelerate their digitalization process. Employees have had to perform their duties from remote locations (mainly from home) in places that, up until now, were outside the corporate perimeter. This has posed a great many challenges because of the multiple types of existing lines and connections (xDSL, FTTH, 4G…), which, in addition, being...
When it comes to packet filtering on Linux, Nftables (a successor to Iptables) has matured sufficiently in recent years for it to be considered the default tool to use today. However, Iptables is still widely used in modern systems (e.g., Debian buster), with it often being “emulated” by using Nftables as backend, whereupon it becomes merely an alternative syntax to Nftables for defining packet...
Nowadays, it is quite common for systems to be made up of many subsystems. These include small programs that work together, full Operating Systems and proprietary applications. This growing number of subsystems needs maintenance to assess their performance, detect potential vulnerabilities and correct errors. One of the main tools IT professionals have to keep that many subsystems operational...
Last week I shared some important aspects regarding SD-WAN (such as self-provisioning, automation, monitoring, etc.) that I have encountered while working with customers, Partners and Carriers in different countries in Central and South America. As mentioned, there are several other important points to consider in an SD-WAN installation and I will discuss these in this second part of the blog...
Software-defined networking (SDN) can be applied for cloud-managed networks that use dynamic configuration to improve performance and monitoring. It offers greater centralization than traditional networks, allowing administrators to achieve the flexibility and ease of troubleshooting they need for cloud network monitoring with increasingly complex architecture. SDN accomplishes this by...
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