Several years ago, NetFlow was arguably one of the most underutilized management assets relevant to network performance and security. It was generally available as a part of Cisco IOS software, but ...

While NetFlow data may traditionally be seen as a network infrastructure tool, smart security teams can get tons of benefits out of the collection of IP traffic statistics, too. "Security ...

Successful distributed denial of service (DDoS) triage and mitigation depend on two things: speed of detection and accuracy of detection. When users are considering a DDoS solution, I am often asked ...

Readers have told me that they like blog posts with technical tips and tricks. So I asked SolarWinds to write an article about making the most out of NetFlow. The following is a guest post written by ...

Enterprise Management Associates has been talking with NetFlow adopters and is coming out with a short report as part of a larger research report on application flow management. There are clear ...

SolarWinds' Network Utilization and Bandwidth Monitoring Software's Speed and Detail Enhancements Give IT Pros Ability to Diagnose Network Traffic Issues and Bandwidth Spikes Quickly and Accurately ...

NetFlow and other network metadata generation methods are a simple, effective way to increase visibility into traffic flows and usage patterns across systems. However the processor and memory load of ...