Network Performance Enforcement Solutions
Despite the increased capacity available on WAN links, service providers and enterprises often find bandwidth in short supply. This occurs even though most links average only 30%-40% utilisation, and at best 50%-70% when specialised equipment is used. Today’s best practice is to reserve significant capacity, often half of the total link capacity, to ensure a constant data flow during traffic surges and bandwidth-hogging application sessions, such as peer-to-peer downloads.
FirstWave uses a technology that empowers WAN link utilisation at 95% or better without loss of connections, delay in traffic flow, queuing, or buffering. Under policy control, every user gets a fair and equitable share of the bandwidth, with high quality of experience (QoE). FirstWave’s Secure Traffic Manager (STM) runs virtual machines (VM), dedicated servers, or on our branded devices.
Independent Or SharePoint: What’s The Best Intranet Solution?
Are you seeking the perfect modern intranet, but unsure which solution will best meet your organization’s evolving needs? Perhaps you’re in a tug-of-war with stakeholders over whether to replace an unloved SharePoint site with an independent platform that’s pioneering the AI tools you’re reading about?
In this webinar, we explore:
- How the intranet landscape looks for 2024 and beyond.
- Separating “must have” from “nice to have” in your requirements list.
- The benefits and limitations of using Microsoft SharePoint as an intranet.
- The pros and cons of out-of-the box intranets.
- Future intranet trends that will change your digital workplace.
Using ONGAA CAM To Program Wood CNCs
Process change is both difficult and inevitable but it can also be positive and profitable. At the same time, change for ‘no good reason’ is generally negative and expensive. Deciding that a change would be beneficial should be done during a full functional evaluation.
The following ‘Time studies’ are great examples of objectively evaluating software to ‘simplify’ standard procedures in the manufacturing of machined wood components.
These studies show the importance of reviewing processes before and after the ‘intended change’ to ensure process changes are truly beneficial and don’t just ‘move’ the load and costs from one area to another.
Why You Need ONGAA CAM
ONGAA CAM works much like WoodWOP in that you, as CNC programmer, decide what processes you want to use and what order they should be in. Tool options like feed, speed, approach and tool compensation are entered in ONGAA CAM. Unlike WoodWOP, instead of entering numbers from a drawing or calculator, you simply select the edges (geometry) you would like to reference.
Learning to use ONGAA CAM takes only minutes if you know how to use WoodWOP.
Using ONGAA CAM To Program Wood CNCs
Process change is both difficult and inevitable but it can also be positive and profitable. At the same time, change for ‘no good reason’ is generally negative and expensive. Deciding that a change would be beneficial should be done during a full functional evaluation.
The following ‘Time studies’ are great examples of objectively evaluating software to ‘simplify’ standard procedures in the manufacturing of machined wood components.
These studies show the importance of reviewing processes before and after the ‘intended change’ to ensure process changes are truly beneficial and don’t just ‘move’ the load and costs from one area to another.
Why You Need ONGAA CAM
ONGAA CAM works much like WoodWOP in that you, as CNC programmer, decide what processes you want to use and what order they should be in. Tool options like feed, speed, approach and tool compensation are entered in ONGAA CAM. Unlike WoodWOP, instead of entering numbers from a drawing or calculator, you simply select the edges (geometry) you would like to reference.
Learning to use ONGAA CAM takes only minutes if you know how to use WoodWOP.
The Role of Competitive Intelligence in Business Development
Businesses increasingly prefer data-driven decision-making, leaving intuition-based decisions to lesser tasks. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) can locate and extract data from unstructured sources with nearly 95% accuracy. And yet, most organizations struggle to analyze the ocean of data they collect, as nearly 90% of data is unstructured or has no defined schema.
With competitive intelligence (CI), businesses can connect data collection and analysis capabilities into a single system bringing all the existing know-how and adopting it in-house.
CI practices yield a range of transformational changes that fuel growth with areas of impact found at all levels of an organization.
How AI Is Changing the Web Scraping Landscape
Whereas manual rule-based data extraction is a long and tedious process, the introduction of AI enabled maintenance-free approaches. Besides its primary purpose of data extraction for business insights, web scraping is also used to accumulate training material for AI-based adaptive parsing.
With the help of machine learning models, AI-assisted web scrapers can retrieve and process content from hundreds of thousands of pages in seconds to generate business strategies and forecasts without being explicitly programmed to do so.
This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of how AI and its subfield, machine learning, shape the current trends in web data extraction and processes that precede it. AI assistance is just as valuable in bypassing anti-scraping measures (such as in our own Web Unblocker) as it is instrumental in the subsequent data structuring.
Guide to Threat Intelligence Data Acquisition
Cyber threats are increasingly becoming a huge issue in the digital world. Malicious entities find various ways to access sensitive companies’ or individual data. Data breaches, phishing, social engineering, malware, ransomware, and many more threats are evolving rapidly and becoming more dangerous every year.
Understanding the seriousness of cyber threats and taking action to fight against them is a massive step toward a safer digital environment. One of the cybersecurity practices that modern companies use to avoid potential dangers is threat intelligence.
Threat intelligence enables businesses to make faster and data-backed security decisions and be proactive in the fight against threat actors.
Real-Time Price Monitoring System Architecture
The automation of price monitoring is the only way to stay on top of the price intelligence challenges. Either keeping up with price changes, uncovering competitor strategies, or observing historical pricing data, price monitoring reveals applicable business patterns that catalyze growth.
This white paper provides an action chain for price monitoring, from collecting target URLs to data parsing, along with tips and explanations on the most important elements and processes.
The Complete Buyer’s Guide to Intranets
When you’re looking for intranet software to improve communication, connection, and engagement – where do you start?
Download and discover:
- If an intranet is the right solution for your organization.
- How to create a strategy that optimizes your project.
- What to look for in a prospective intranet vendor.
- The intranet features your business needs.
Planning And Deploying a Successful Intranet
The ultimate 37-page guide to planning and launching a modern intranet, from the critical pre-launch period to maintaining engagement over time.
Learn how to:
- Create your business case.
- Plan your approach.
- Build your content.
- Launch your intranet.
- Measure your success.
Speed Up Your NOC With Automation
This guide is designed for Network Operation Centers (NOC) who’d like to know how they can prevent a lot of “blindsides” and find better more efficient ways to detect, diagnose and act upon their daily network “events”. Download this White Paper by Network Operations Expert Rob Pavone for strategies and solutions on keeping up with your growing network, as new technology continues to be introduced at a faster rate.
Key Points:
- How to implement efficient methods that help make your NOC a less stressful environment.
- Ways to automate tasks and resolve issues on your network with speed (via Case Study) .
- Automation support solutions for the NOC through: Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Performance and Capacity Management & Asset and Configuration Management.
- What tools you should be using to support automation solutions for: Performance and Capacity Needs, Compliance Issues & Maintaining Consistency, Using Event Correlation for Events, Diagnose, Troubleshoot, Collect and Report & Using REST API: Auto-open, Populate Incidents.
NMS Security Architecture Considerations & Approaches
This whitepaper by Principal Consultant of Neon Knight Consulting Anthony Kirkham covers how organizations can increasing the probability of detecting breaches using actionable guidance that will strengthen their Network Management’s security posture. Download the asset below.
Key Points:
- How quick detection may be the difference between being able to respond quickly and effectively, or, incurring a severe business and reputational impact.
- Practical guidance & solutions on securing Network Management systems and associated infrastructure.
- Mitigation Strategies to Prevent Malware Delivery and Execution.
- Mitigation Strategies to Limit the Extent of Cyber Security Incidents.
- Mitigation Strategies to Recover Data and System Availability.
- Tools & techniques can be used to provide high value in improving the security posture through Visibility.
- Why Align with Zero Trust Architectures.
A Primer in Root Cause Analysis
In this article I will attempt to outline a general process for troubleshooting network-related events, meaning those issues which directly impact the performance of a computer network or application resulting in a negative impact on user experience. While I will use FirstWave’s Solutions in the examples, these steps can be applied to any collection of NMS tools.
