When it comes to the care and feeding of modern networks, there’s quite a list of tools and technologies that qualified IT professionals must master — especially those who aspire to work as network administrators.
In addition to the servers and clients that make up the endpoints in such environments, there’s a lot of network infrastructure to worry about. This includes switches and routers (both physical and virtual), plus a raft of appliances and services, such as unified threat management (UTM), next-generation firewalls (NGFs), WAN optimization, and spam, email and content filtering.
