Earlier this week, the world’s largest domain registrar, GoDaddy, announced that they had become a victim of a data breach that had occurred in October 2019. According to the official notice, the SSH credentials of nearly 28,000 users had been affected, though no serious damage was done. GoDaddy has registered a data breach notice with […]
Very recently, an IT infrastructure automation major released news of two critical vulnerabilities in its framework. Within 24 hours of its announcement, reports of exploitation started pouring in. Several elite organizations and open-source projects that use the solution were forced to take down entire server systems, even while others were reeling from malicious attacks and […]
Welcome to the world of remote working. Once considered a modern luxury (remember stories of IBM installing “remote terminals” in their employees’ homes in 1980?), then denounced as a killer of creativity and teamwork, it has now settled over most of the world as the only way to work without exposing ourselves to the dangers […]
Modern applications require complex networks to support them. DevOps, SecOps, NetOps and application teams are under enormous pressure to configure, provision, and maintain multiple network components. And oftentimes all they have in their arsenal are a collection of error-prone manual steps and a number of disjointed, vendor-specific tools that offer no end-to-end visibility into the […]
As organizations continue to transition from conventional development to DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices, DevOps teams often struggle with consistently managing PKI. This is especially true when it comes to managing a digital certificate infrastructure. Why? Since the process of requesting a certificate from a Certificate Authority (CA), receiving it, binding it to […]
When it comes to building server-side applications, there are typically two approaches: monolithic and microservices. A monolithic architecture is built as a single system, typically using the same code base. A system like this is easier to develop, test and deploy – by pushing it out all at once. Many of the large successful applications […]
How many times have you been confronted with a network issue that could potentially cause downtime, but couldn’t troubleshoot because you didn’t know where it lay? In a network automation survey that had over 550 enterprises from around the world participate, 37% of the respondents – an overwhelming majority – cited lack of visibility as […]
To analyze the current trends in network automation, we ran a survey that included over 550 enterprises from around the world and across industries. One of the questions asked was, “What is the primary method of making network changes in the environment,” for which the response given by half of the participants was “CLI on […]
In a worldwide survey conducted among 550 enterprises to learn the trends in network automation, a majority of them cited cost and security as two primary impediments to efficient network management. Cost Cost can be subdivided into the following: The cost of adding devices to the network infrastructure (capital expenses) Operational costs, or the cost […]
Introduction Let’s face it – when it comes to a game of finger-pointing, the network team is where it all culminates. Any issue with an application that the development team cannot figure out or resolve is thrown over the wall to the NetOps team. Networks are known to be slow, unresponsive, and complex – reasons […]
The RSA Conference – the world’s grandest stage for cybersecurity and allied disciplines. For this iteration of the convention, over 35,000 professionals flocked to the Moscone Center in San Francisco to interact with each other, and over 600 exhibitors and speakers. The looming threat of the Novel Coronavirus put a bit of a damper on […]
The COVID-19 crisis has warranted unprecedented levels of restrictions from various governments – social distancing and travel bans being the chief of them. With employees unable to turn up for work, business continuity can be severely impacted if organizations don’t immediately take proactive measures. We’ve come up with a list of actions… Impacts and Recommendations […]
Global pandemics have always been characterized by chaos – a factor that not threatens human wellness, but also the flow of commerce and economics. This is especially true of the Coronavirus outbreak – case in point, global markets have been thrown into disarray, with stocks taking plunges, indexes’ circuit breakers being forcibly broken, and millions […]
COVID-19 is a classic example of The Butterfly Effect. The novel coronavirus, measuring hardly a few nanometers, set off a series of events that has culminated in the global economy almost grinding to a halt. People are afraid to step out of their homes, gaping holes in the supply chain have stalled trade, and stock […]
Network teams have a lot of their plates – after all, they are responsible for designing, implementing, provisioning, configuring and maintaining the computer networks that keep the business running. Not surprisingly, most CIOs place automation initiatives on top of their agenda, hoping to harness the many benefits promised by the concept of automating IT processes […]
CIO Guidance for Addressing Increased Risk from Remote NetOps & Application Teams The COVID-19 pandemic has driven companies the world over to take precautionary measures such as travel bans and enforcing work-from-home policies for employees. But the restrictions are directed at people, not business itself. Most enterprises are digital, offering web-based applications and services to […]
COVID-19, now a full-blown pandemic, has affected not just the lives of thousands of people, but global business too. In a commendable effort to contain the spread of the malignant virus, companies around the world are asking their employees to work from home. This move, however, puts a strain on productivity, especially in domains that […]
As we all know, a digital certificate is a credential that ties the identity of a person (or organization, or a web service) to a pair of encryption keys – one public, and one private. If a person signs a document with their private key, the recipient of this document can verify their identity using […]
Digital certificates protect data and applications, and when they fail (often due to easy-to-overlook oversights in managing them) they can cause serious damage to an organization. Let’s explore some of the typical oversights that IT teams need to be aware of when dealing with digital certificates. 1. Not having a complete inventory of your certificates […]
The world’s largest free, not-for-profit Certificate Authority (CA) – Let’s Encrypt – has been making headlines all week. A few days ago, it announced that it had issued its billionth TLS certificate – a commendable achievement. This week, however, the tables seem to have turned. In an unprecedented move that shook netizens, Let’s Encrypt announced […]
TLS – the successor to SSL – has been around for a long time. To be precise, it was normalized in 1999 to replace the archaic SSL 3.0, and has undergone three iterations ever since, with TLS 1.3 being the most recent. As is common practice, most internet systems have continued to support every version […]
Commercial certificates can be costly to acquire and time-consuming to manage. Not surprisingly, they are seen by some as a barrier for HTTPS adoption. So, when wildcard certificates first entered the security scene, many IT organizations cheered, hailing them as a money-saving option that would allow them to secure multiple subdomains with a single certificate. […]
These days, it’s not uncommon for enterprises to have thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of digital certificates. As the number of connected devices continues to grow, so does the need for an ever-increasing number of certificates distributed across the enterprise infrastructure, to enable them to communicate safely and securely. The PKI administration teams who […]
SSH is a popular protocol for protecting data privacy through data-in-motion encryption – to make sure that hackers are not listening in on your private transactions as they traverse over the network. It also offers both client and server authentication, to ensure that both transacting parties – say, your company and your bank – are […]
Earlier this month, Microsoft Teams went offline, courtesy of an expired security certificate. Users who attempted to log into their accounts were met with an error message informing them that the service could not establish a secure connection to Microsoft servers. This embarrassing mistake didn’t go unnoticed, causing an uproar of frustration from users, negative […]
Certificate-related issues remain one of the biggest security concerns for the modern enterprise. And despite a rapid advancement of new technologies that rely heavily on PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) for security and authentication, most organizations admit to not having an adequate system for managing their PKI, as well as the digital certificates that bind public […]
Certificate management may seem like a daunting task, especially to someone who doesn’t possess specialized knowledge of the technology and policies involved in deploying and maintaining PKI. Let’s break it down into distinct, bite-sized steps to see if it’s actually that intimidating. 1. Certificate Enrollment A user or organization submits a certificate request to a […]
Most large organizations have a system in place to handle changes, respond to incidents, and manage releases and configuration changes. Modern issue management tools provide a smart automated way to initiate, record, review, and track these changes. But what happens after an operations / network / infrastructure team receives the request? More often than not, […]
Apple, Amazon, Tesla Motors… we have come to associate these company names with creative ideas, innovative approaches, and game-changing products and services. These names have become synonymous with transformation, breaking the rules, and doing things differently. But these famous names also often have a meaning, an underlying reason why the founders chose them. Tesla, of […]
Missed renewal triggers three-hour service outage Yesterday morning (8:30 AM ET, 02/03/2019), users of Microsoft Teams, a popular enterprise collaboration platform, found themselves unable to access their Teams applications. A Tweet from Microsoft confirmed that the service was down, and a follow-up message explained that the reason for the outage was an expired authentication certificate. […]
When you hear the word “disaster,” your mind immediately conjures up images of massive floods or storms. While the IT wing of an organization certainly counts floods and storms as disasters, the term disaster in IT speak is not limited to those. Common causes of downtime: Hardware failures – 45% Power outages – 35% Software […]
Not too long ago, AppViewX CERT+ was named in a comprehensive research report released by Gartner, arguably one of the most respected and trusted analyst firms in the world. The report precisely summarizes the issues faced by security leaders today in managing the certificates associated with their organizations, and the steps they can take towards […]
Peeve: “The app owners bombard me with tickets and make me sit through endless calls for just one minor disable/enable operation.” In our last blog, we spoke about the hurdles that network engineers face in deploying applications and how AppViewX helps them get around those hurdles. But as we all know, the story doesn’t quite […]
Peeve: “I do all the busywork after the application is developed and don’t even get credit for it.” An application developer’s job gets over once the app is created and tested, while a network engineer’s role starts from just then. Configuring ADCs, opening firewall ports, provisioning certificates…all the minutiae of ensuring the application actually reaches […]
Being a network engineer is hard. You could be the ones working the longest hours on tasks that could make or break an enterprise’s backbone (which is precisely what networks are), but compared to the more “glamorous” roles of, say an application developer, your jobs aren’t all that interesting. You wake up to a flood […]
Turns out, they can – and then some. Certificate-related outages and downtime have been making headlines in the recent past, and for all the wrong reasons. The infamous Equifax breach, which struck all the way back in 2017, culminated in the firm having to cough up a gargantuan US$700 Million in net damages earlier this […]
The turn of the millennium brought with it a word, “digitalization,” that made businesses of all sizes – small, medium, and large – rushing to jump into the bandwagon. Digitalization chiefly meant discarding paper-based manual processes and moving to a digital platform where all data and processes are electronic. Ledgers became spreadsheets, and emails became […]
We’re officially announcing a joint partnership between AppViewX Inc. and PrimeKey Solutions AB, two global leaders in the PKI and PKI management space. With this initiative, AppViewX CERT+ and PrimeKey EJBCA Enterprise will demonstrate deep and complete integration with each other, providing a seamless experience on which PKI and certificate infrastructures can be managed from […]
Gone are the days when inanimate objects coming to life and thinking on their own was a chapter out of a science fiction novel. With a bunch of sensors, a wireless network, and a data management system, any “dumb” object can be turned into a “smart” device that’s capable of talking not just to humans […]
The dust has hardly settled over the Equifax data breach fiasco, and we’re confronted with yet another massive breach that’s sending shock waves around the world and raising some serious questions about how organizations handle their clients’ data. Capital One, ranked 10th on the list of the United States’ largest banks by assets, fell prey […]
Digital transformation is driving organizations to adopt new and innovative ways to deliver application services faster, while simultaneously reducing complexity and operating costs. Network automation has become essential to efficiently operate modern network infrastructure. Most organizations have started automating simple tasks and have witnessed significant results. Holistic Approach The emergence of DevOps-oriented solutions like Ansible, […]
For an organization that’s built on trust, ‘data breach’ could be your worst nightmare. However, the problem is all too common, with hackers growing more ingenious and brazen by the day. While some of these attacks cannot be thwarted by even the tightest security systems, most of them can be prevented when adequate precautions are […]
As we near the second anniversary of the largest data breach in history, ghosts from Equifax’s past continue to haunt the credit-reporting giant in the form of top-dollar fines. The news surfaced over the past weekend, and has been making waves ever since – Equifax might pay a whopping grand total of nearly a billion […]
The Risks Associated with Improper Certificate Management About the webcast : A CISO Guide to Certificate Management Business in the 21st century are hyper-reliant on technology, requiring some instance of it to run in almost every function, and across every vertical. This fact is reflected in the sheer number of applications and devices leveraged by […]
On May 7th, for the second time this year, the Baltimore city government computers were infected by ransomware. Hackers demanded that a hefty ransom of over $75,000 be paid for each affected computer in order for users to safely recover critical files, emails, and other documents. However, according to the city mayor, Baltimore, no evidence […]
Certificate expiry may seem like an abstract concept that looms somewhere in the indeterminable future, which could be why most organizations push the issue to the backburner. But when it eventually strikes, even giants aren’t spared. Certificate expiry has played Russian Roulette with some of the top cos like LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Ericsson, leading to […]
In February of 2013, Microsoft Azure Storage saw a worldwide outage that affected their HTTPS traffic. In December of 2018, millions of people around the world had their cellphones draw a blank when the cellular network giant Ericsson experienced a glitch in one of their software systems. More recently, in May this year, thousands of […]
According to Gartner 2019 Strategic Roadmap for Networking, “By 2023, to enhance agility and reduce downtime, more than 60% of data center networking operational activities will be automated, up from 30% today.” Strong networks are key to enabling digital success. From the retail to the financial services to the banking industry, applications are quickly becoming […]
The successful digital enterprises of tomorrow will be the ones that plan for the future today by adopting the right network automation solution. Achieving agility, optimizing costs and enforcing compliance are the key challenges faced by network teams and also are the primary drivers of network automation. Introducing automation reduce much of the manual network […]
Sprinting towards compliance : What’s the BOD all about? Earlier this quarter, the Department of Homeland Security rolled out Binding Operational Directive 19-02 (or BOD 19-02, for convenience). This directive, applicable to all federal agencies, is part of a prolonged effort by the DHS (and the assisting cyber-security arm, CISA) to enforce digital security and […]
In today’s digital era, automation is key to data center agility. Automation adoption is nothing new and is becoming very common among organizations as you have seen the benefits of automation firsthand. To address the business needs in the digital transformation journey, you continue to unleash new levels of business innovation and enhance the buying […]
If you are a network engineer, it is no doubt that you are bombarded with hundreds of change requests every week. ADC infrastructure is extremely dynamic, and as a business grows, change must be made to accommodate the new requirements that come with this growth. The changes can be simple operations like server rotation or […]
Earlier this week, several LinkedIn users reported the apparent inaccessibility of the website via certain browsers, owing to an insecure connection. The root cause of this mishap was later revealed to be an expired certificate–more specifically, a TLS certificate on their URL shortener (lnkd.in) which wasn’t renewed on time. Here’s what a LinkedIn spokesperson had […]
Today, every organization is undergoing digital transformation. Digitalization has changed the way the network is being managed. Network leaders have to respond to a flux of changes and ensure changes are compliant to standards. Key to this is using the right tool to simplify management of enterprise IT, reduce errors and deploy services efficiently. Many […]
Network teams are finally realizing that traditional approaches to application infrastructure management and service delivery are time-consuming, inefficient and error-prone. Network automation tools are essential to meet the needs of growing digital business. According to Gartner report – Market Guide for Network Automation1, “By 2021, productized network automation tools will be used by 45% of […]
It’s 2019 and this year, in order to take your business into the future, your team must make the critical investment into an evolutionary network automation solution. It’s time to take advantage of this new year by setting your organization up for optimal success. Start by tuning into our recent webinar featuring AppViewX’s Chief Solutions […]
Load Balancer as a Service (LbaaS) refers to enabling self-servicing to end users to provision service requests such as automation of VIP configuration. LBaaS can set new standards for deploying applications services and reducing costs, especially by enabling self-servicing capabilities for L4-L7 services for application teams. LBaaS was originally developed as the networking service for […]
Digital transformation is reshaping the way customers engage with businesses. The ever-increasing pressure to deliver the best digital experience has forced enterprises to deliver applications at unprecedented levels of speed, scale, security, and agility – forcing more and more enterprises toward automation to stay afloat. To help enterprises deliver in the face of this increasing […]
As networks become more and more complex, enterprises are relying on greater levels of visibility, automation and collaboration across daily workflows. Given this new level of demand, we are excited to announce the latest release of the AppViewX platform, AVX 12.3, which was designed to give way to faster service delivery, stronger compliance, minimized opportunity […]
The digital transformation is driving brand-new opportunities for enterprises, resulting in an explosion in the growth of applications. That means that in this increasingly digital world, IT is a primary enabler of business. Today, applications are deployed across public clouds, private clouds, hybrid environments, co-location facilities, and more. This increase in application production opens doors […]
Application services are the fuel that keeps applications up and running. Hundreds of web servers sit behind a business’s applications to handle multiple customer requests simultaneously. The application delivery controller (ADC) sits between the client and the server to accept incoming network and application traffic, distributing that traffic across multiple back-end servers. The application delivery […]
When you purchase something from Amazon, BestBuy or any other online retailer, how do you know to trust the website with your payment information? It is because you trust your browser, which placed its trust in the web domain’s Certificate Authority, to notify you of any misrepresentation of the domain you are browsing. Unlike humans, […]
Digital certificates are the only true representation of trust online, and now hackers are using this trust against us. In fact, selling digital certificates has become quite a lucrative job. Cybercriminals steal these certificates and in turn, gain access to valuable data. Some even sell for up to $1,200 each on the dark web, making […]
As data centers become more and more complex —encompassing applications, networking devices and virtual and physical servers —many IT organizations are implementing critical service management systems. However, implementing and managing these diverse systems to support network service management processes— such as event and incident management, change management, and disaster recovery tasks— often results in manually […]
Today, we are all living and working in an increasingly digital world, and in response, network infrastructure is becoming more and more complex. The last decade was witness to tremendous change on the technology front – increased use of technology by people (“Apps Everywhere”), a shift toward truly digital businesses and advancements in the networking […]
Networks must be agile to compete in today’s digital marketplace. Whether it be spinning VM’s or binding SSL/TLS certificates to applications, everything must keep pace with the changing dynamics of modern business ecosystems. How do you plan on keeping up with these changing demands? Invest in the recruitment of new resources? Or invest in training […]
In an increasingly digital world, SSL/TLS certificates become the identity of a particular enterprise. Who trusts this digital identity? Almost every entity that is connected to the internet, including browsers and their underlying operating systems. Basically, SSL/TLS certificates are like our passports; they are widely accepted as proof of identity. Now, what if someone forges […]
The widespread digital transformation is requiring businesses to be dynamic and adapt to changes quickly. Organizations must ensure all IT initiatives (existing and new) are aligned to drive business value. This requires rethinking their approach to people, process and technology and striving for more agile infrastructure over a stable and controlled delivery alone. If done […]
Application delivery controllers (ADCs) play a vital role in improving the availability, security and overall performance of applications. In today’s world of application-driven businesses, a lot can go wrong when an application is compromised. In fact, a single application outage can cause millions of dollars worth of damage and expose enterprises to significant reputational risk. […]
Every day, NetOps must address a mounting queue of service requests and troubleshooting tickets sent by application owners and other business units. In the midst of this, NetOps is also responsible for deploying new services with little lead time, all as they work with multiple teams spread across complex, multi-vendor environments. While troubleshooting existing applications […]
NetOps teams consistently face a variety of challenges: the massive shift toward digital transformation, managing multi-vendor and hybrid infrastructure, full queues of service requests, and of course, the pressure to meet expanding business needs with limited resources. Building and maintaining secure network infrastructure is critical to the success of growing digital business initiatives, forcing NetOps […]
In a series of recent revelations made by WikiLeaks, the site has exposed a new set of tools commonly used by United States’ top foreign intelligence service, the CIA, to attack Windows and Linux computers. The BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon projects, named after famous Star Wars characters, are used to intercept and steal SSH credentials from […]
The modern Application Delivery Controller (ADC) is responsible for both the availability and security of applications, making it a critical component of the network. In today’s dynamic business environment, ADC configurations are constantly changed and modified. In fact, network engineers in large organizations are charged with processing many ADC change requests each week. The complexity […]
After WannaCry ransomware shook the security world, a new kind of Trojan called CertLock started compromising security worldwide to threaten Machine Identities. This Trojan blocks reputed security programs from installing on infected Windows machines. To achieve this, the Trojan blocks the security vendor’s digital certificate, making it easy for hackers.When users attempt to run the […]
Chris Vickery, a cyber risk analyst from UpGuard, successfully retrieved a cache of 60,000 documents related to a United States military project for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The sensitive files (close to 28 GB) linked to the U.S. intelligence agency were left unsecured (without a password) on a public Amazon server for anyone to […]
Applications are everywhere. Almost every business in nearly every industry use applications in some way, shape or form. The digital revolution continues to disrupt businesses, causing the pace of application adoption to skyrocket and sending the demand for immediate response, error-free configurations through the roof. Traditional application infrastructures are coming up short as the needs […]
In the past, application delivery controllers weren’t deployed widely. But in today’s increasingly digital world, these ADCs are becoming much more prevalent – and even necessary – as NetOps struggle to keep up with the applications they support. Whether they are in retail, financial services, healthcare or a number of other dominant industries, businesses have […]
Today’s digital economy demands that enterprises build applications more often; provision them instantly; scale those applications as-needed, and integrate with other services seamlessly. Advancements in network automation now make it easy for mainstream enterprises to respond to these demands, no matter the industry. By taking full advantage of network automation and standardized automation workflows, organizations […]
In today’s technology climate, businesses are confronted with constant change. As they are forced to adapt, the applications they use must be updated or reconfigured to meet the changing needs without compromising their availability. That’s why organizations are starting to turn to more agile deployment tools, like open-source software or cloud services. But, as trends […]
The workforce is becoming increasingly mobile, with more employees working remotely than at any time in history. Enterprises with secure remote access face unprecedented challenges in managing their application delivery infrastructure, and they need solutions that offer greater agility and efficiency to support this demanding environment. Most data center operations depend upon manual operations and […]
For those tasked with deploying applications in complex and dynamic application service infrastructures, application delivery automation enables business agility to achieve business outcomes. Whether in brownfield or greenfield environments, enterprise application delivery is a complex process and there are a variety of application services that need to be deployed. Ensuring that application services are delivered […]
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks increased drastically last year and have become widespread. DDoS attacks are a way of overloading network routers or servers with so much traffic that it drains your resources and they stop responding to legitimate requests. The true impact of DDoS is difficult to measure but it is very destructive. If your […]
Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders are finding it difficult to keep up with the dynamic businesses they are tasked with. They typically own the applications for every line of business, and they are expected to not only maintain application availability, but also to deliver new applications faster—at the speed of digitalization. They need to focus […]
Data centers are at the core of IT, and over the past few years, we’ve seen growing concern over the increasing complexity of controlling data center operations. To gain fresh insight into how IT views the management of its infrastructure, AppViewX conducted an IT Innovation Survey at ONUG Fall 2016 in New York City. Many […]
Even as it’s become clear that enterprises are increasingly looking to the cloud to meet IT and business needs more efficiently and cost-effectively, it’s also become clear that migrating isn’t a trivial matter. While it may be simple for small organizations and subject matter experts to migrate to the cloud, it can take 5 to […]
Application delivery evolves dramatically ever year, and application delivery controllers gain new advancements to keep pace with the need for 100 percent uptime and growing demands on data centers. To ensure outstanding delivery of business applications, enterprises are expanding their ADC portfolios by adding devices or moving to the cloud. Many of these emerging applications […]
The digitalization of businesses has changed IT. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams are now tasked with creating a strategic plan to achieve agility and scalability. The Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure and Operations Management Conference that took place in Las Vegas early this month focused on evolving the role of I&O leaders to enable, influence, and […]
Increasing change requests, demanding agility, enabling cross-team collaboration and reducing costs require a strong NetOps automation foundation. Gartner predicts that by 2017, 75 percent of enterprises will have more than six diverse automation technologies within their IT management portfolios. NetOps automation is not just about executing tasks. It is an ongoing process for powering I&O […]
The internet is going to be flooded with attacks from new malware that targets insecure routers, IP cameras, digital video recorders, and similar vulnerable devices. In the last couple of months, malware known as “Mirai” has been using botnets to orchestrate massive DDoS attacks that have caused vast internet outages around the world. Mirai’s first […]
Applications act as a consumer gateway for banking, financial services, entertainment, healthcare, and other businesses. Application delivery has changed along with the challenges that IT faces. To meet IT needs and address growing business demands, ADC vendors release new versions with technology advancements. While enterprises recognize the benefits of version migration, there are significant challenges […]
Applications are core to most business operations today, and application teams are churning out apps like never before to address changing business needs. Enterprises, in particular, are struggling to make these applications production-ready after application development. Applications in an enterprise-grade environment need to be able to scale to handle traffic from hundreds or thousands of […]
In the past, people often preferred large, established institutions vs. smaller start-ups because the former offered a wider set of features and options. Let’s take the example of financial institutions. Large banks have the infrastructure and resources to offer their consumers high-quality banking facilities and support in different locations around the world. The common mind-set […]
Enterprises are continuously deploying new and updated applications. Data centers and networks, in particular, must become more agile and responsive to change. Recent joint webinar presented by AppViewX and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) uncover the strategies that infrastructure and operations teams implement to deliver applications efficiently. Digital transformation demands IT agility to meet the dynamic […]
Enterprises are finding it very challenging to keep pace with today’s changing technology. With our new v11.3 release, AppViewX helps accelerate application delivery by moving faster, eliminating errors, and reducing costs. AppViewX v11.3 introduces SSH key management, securing remote access to data centers and enabling enterprises to effectively mitigate risk and ensure compliance. Every enterprise […]
Businesses need to migrate to SHA2 signed certificates now! The SHA1 hashing algorithm, which is known to be weak due to advancements in cryptographic attacks, is being deprecated and must be replaced with SHA2. SHA1 has been vulnerable for years SHA1, a cryptographic hash function is no longer considered secure, and SHA1 signed certificates can […]
End users and application owners spend a lot of time creating or modifying configurations on ADCs. This includes the complete cycle, from requesting a change right up to implementation. Enterprises encounter a large number of changes every day, and all these changes have to be processed through a change request. In most cases, a change […]
AppViewX’s Application Delivery Automation solution works in sync with F5 devices by completely automating applications on BIG-IP LTMs and GTMs and enabling users to pre-define and customize standard templates per organizational norms. The Application Provisioning System (APS) in AppViewX gives users the ability to create templates using a simple form factor on the front end […]
Our latest release, AppViewX v11.0.0, is paving the way for end-to-end automation with its orchestration platform. Cited in Gartner as one of the network orchestration systems with high-level automation, AppViewX considers industry trends as a roadmap to satisfy customer needs with every release and update. As a leader in the ADC management space provisioning L4–L7 […]
Organizations host many applications whose management is equally dependent on the application and the network teams. Metrics critical to the network team might not necessarily be important to an application business unit and vice versa. For any outage, it is essential that all business units are alerted, but organizations feel that the alerts are very […]
Every organization’s unspoken but important goal is to retain as many customers as possible! AppViewX is no exception. We work hard to address customer needs, identify solutions, and provide a unique user experience for customers, resulting in 100 percent customer retention since 2010. AppViewX is specifically developed to help customers manage challenges arising during various […]
In today’s complex network infrastructure, there is always a possibility for a configuration error to cause a network outage or, in worst case scenarios, a power or other failure to cause the entire load balancer appliance or virtual instance to go down. To avoid these setbacks, it is essential to do a complete backup on […]
Now that v12 of the F5 BIG-IP series is around the corner, many customers might have plans to upgrade to the latest offering from F5. Regardless if there is a version upgrade, there will definitely be patches and hotfixes that need to be pushed onto the ADCs. The traditional way of performing upgrades includes configuring […]
One of the leading financial services companies had difficulties migrating virtual IPs (VIPs) from one device to another. This scenario is common when there is a need to migrate a VIP from one environment to another (e.g., DEV, UAT, PROD) or when migrating a VIP to a secondary device. A critical issue the company faced […]
Automation—one of the biggest use cases for most organizations today—has a lot to do with customization and innovation. AppViewX allows creation of customized cookie-cutter, template-based forms, which can be given out to end users and application teams. The requester can log in through either AppViewX or a remote application to enter the requested information. This […]
Currently, 90 percent of certificate teams monitor the expiration of their SSL/TLS certificates using an Excel spreadsheet. So, if an organization had about 1500 SSL/TLS certificates, the certificate team would have to go through 1500 entries on a daily basis, which is a very tedious task. And then, what if a single certificate is missed […]
AppViewX announces a paradigm shift in application provisioning, achieving deployment agility, improved operational effectiveness, and automation across layers. With the latest release—v10.7—AppViewX provides simplified application provisioning and advanced operational, monitoring, and reporting capabilities across data centers. The product enhancement highlights in the v10.7 release include: Additional device inventory support for A10 ADCs Extended support for […]
Most organizations have put forth mandates to the network and infrastructure teams to consolidate the number of OEM vendors and tools that are currently being used by the operations and engineering teams. But should consolidation reduce flexibility, including the flexibility of choice? We have recently begun to notice that many vendors are trying to take […]
Network and IT infrastructure management is moving towards achieving data center agility: agility in deploying new application services and agility in troubleshooting network problems that cause application downtime. True agility in the infrastructure can be achieved only when teams have better visibility (state, status, and statistics) of the infrastructure and change control has certain level […]
X.509 certificates and keys are an area of focus in this age when cyberattacks are on the rise. Private keys are casually stored in devices handling SSL/TLS termination, and in most cases, in plain text without basic encryption. It is surprising that most enterprises still use manual methods for certificate renewal and SSL certificate generation, […]
Enterprise applications are on the rise and are solving critical business problems for large firms. Due to their importance in the performance of these huge firms, a lot of investment is made in managing their infrastructure. Complex networks lead to operational overhead in terms of cost and manpower. While cloud and SDN will significantly simplify […]
This was originally published in December, 2014. For the latest updates, check here. AppViewX 10.5 was a big leap in the application delivery networking space, providing deeper integrations with vendor APIs, custom reporting, app-centric device management, and advanced operational capabilities. With 10.6, AppViewX is moving forward to meet network management requirements and provide customers with […]
This was originally published in July 2014. For latest updates, check here. AppViewX’s Application Delivery Automation solution v10.5, the latest and most exciting release of the product, is now offered as general availability. The release has really cool features. With this release, the product has cemented itself as a must-have solution to manage ADCs. Version […]
Ever-growing reliance on network services has led to greater importance being given to performance metrics. A protocol that can help manage, administer, and control high-network traffic is a great value-add to everyone involved. This protocol provides the data required to administer the network by sampling packets, ensuring scalability even beyond 100 Gbps without choking the […]
In an era of disruption, we may wonder what will be the future of application delivery networking (ADN), especially with the large SDN investments being made by the major technology firms, virtualization, and the convergence of various technologies. The last decade has seen significant technological advancements in ADN. Leaders in this space have implemented many […]