Eleven best practices to save your business from network pitfalls.
For Quora, Business Insider, Giphy, and many other Web sites, 18 February 2017 was just another normal day; that is, until their services stopped responding. The reason? These sites used Amazon S3, a popular cloud-based service, which suddenly experienced a five-hour-long outage that was so severe even Amazon couldn't update its own AWS status dashboard.
Poor strategy planning, a haphazard hiring process and management that makes all the wrong decisions... all of these factors are capable of bringing even a successful business down. However, there's one issue that's cause for even greater concern than these: inefficient network management. What the rest of these business concerns could take months or even years to accomplish, poor network management could do in a few seconds.
This e-book presents 11 best practices for network management to help you prevent network downtime, as well as other potential losses arising from inefficient network management.