Neil Wilkins
Neil is a Systems Engineer at Garland Technology focusing on customer challenges with network visibility such as resilience, interoperability, and integration into data center topology. Wilkins is a seasoned network professional with 30 years of experience globally within the computing industry, in product marketing and technical support, for both the commercial and public sectors
Packet Deduplication Explained
Duplicate packets are one of those things that happen in a busy network. Although using different network equipment and optimizing your network will minimize duplicates, they’ll still crop up on a fairly regular basis. This can be a...
How to Improve Application Performance Monitoring
As an IT professional, you already know that IT downtime is expensive. It costs organizations, on average, $5,600 for every minute of downtime. But we live in an on-demand world, where customers expect fast, consistent access to your...
What Is a Packet Analyzer?
Imagine this: one of the applications running on your network is performing poorly, and you have no idea why. You've checked out all the usual suspects and can't find the issue that needs to be repaired. You're going crazy trying to...
How to Defend Against DDoS Attacks and Network Downtime
Somedays, it feels like the whole internet is slowing down, or like the critical applications you use on a day-to-day basis aren’t responding. Sometimes, that feeling isn’t just you (or the result of your slow computer). Instead, it’s the...
Debugging and Troubleshooting Performance Issues with the FieldTAP
With the launch of Garland Technology’s new FieldTAP, one of the perks I can boast about is getting to test and use new technology. Especially working remotely, I was excited to have such a versatile TAP to add to my gear. With the new...
SCADA Security Starts with Network Visibility
Supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA), or industrial control systems (ICS), have been monitoring and controlling our industrial, power and refinery world since the 1960s. SCADA started out analog, focused on monitoring...