-- Kentik Synthetic Monitoring Disrupts DEM Market with Autonomous Testing and
   Integrated Real-time Network Intelligence

Kentik(R), provider of the leading network intelligence platform trusted by 
digital enterprises and service providers, today announced it is named a 
Representative Vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for Digital Experience 
Monitoring ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2925875-1&h=2892043864&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kentik.com%2Fgo%2Fgartner-market-guide-digital-experience-monitoring-dem-2020%2F%3Futm_medium%3Dwebsite%26utm_source%3Dpess-release%26utm_campaign%3Dpr-dem%26utm_content%3Dnone%26utm_term%3Dnone&a=Gartner+Market+Guide+for+Digital+Experience+Monitoring 
) (1) (DEM). 

The news comes as Kentik Synthetic Monitoring, the only fully integrated 
network traffic and synthetic monitoring analytics solution on the market, is 
now generally available. With Kentik Synthetic Monitoring, network teams can 
quickly detect performance-impacting issues and improve digital experiences by 
frequently and autonomously testing essential infrastructure, applications and 
services.

"Kentik's new synthetic monitoring capabilities combined with their powerful 
real-time traffic analytics are extremely valuable for network teams like ours 
to get actionable performance insights while serving up the best possible 
digital experiences for users," said Leroy Ferro, director of global network 
planning and peering at Zenlayer.

"Today, the network is more complex - and more critical - than ever," said Alex 
Latzko, lead network architect at ServerCentral Turing Group. "Being able to 
respond faster to our customers' needs and guide them through new opportunities 
is paramount. The level of insights provided in the new Kentik Synthetic 
Monitoring solution makes our responsiveness possible."

"We've heard it loud and clear from our customers that our synthetic monitoring 
approach, integrated with real network traffic data, is fast, easy and 
powerful. Autonomously and intelligently diagnosing the network conditions 
impacting digital experience is a problem our solution was built to address - 
both for employee and customer experience - and it's one that no other DEM 
solution on the market is capable of solving," said Avi Freedman, co-founder 
and CEO of Kentik. "With a network of strategically positioned global agents in 
internet cities and networks around the world, and in every cloud region within 
AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud and Alibaba Cloud, Kentik 
Synthetic Monitoring is the DEM solution that enterprises and service providers 
need for cloud and hybrid networks."

"Digital experience monitoring technologies are enjoying strong demand prompted 
by the changes in remote work and the continued emphasis by organizations on 
digital transformation initiatives," noted Gartner in the Market Guide ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2925875-1&h=764024161&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kentik.com%2Fgo%2Fgartner-market-guide-digital-experience-monitoring-dem-2020%2F%3Futm_medium%3Dwebsite%26utm_source%3Dpess-release%26utm_campaign%3Dpr-dem%26utm_content%3Dnone%26utm_term%3Dnone&a=in+the+Market+Guide 
). "Organizations that implement DEM tools will experience more successful 
digital transformation projects as a result of achieving better application 
performance, user experience and business outcomes."

For more information on Kentik Synthetic Monitoring, download the solution 
brief ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2925875-1&h=2368382505&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kentik.com%2Fresources%2Fsynthetic-monitoring&a=download+the+solution+brief 
) or start a free trial ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2925875-1&h=756388869&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kentik.com%2Fgo%2Fget-started-synthetic-network-monitoring%2F&a=start+a+free+trial 
).

(1) Gartner, "Market Guide for Digital Experience Monitoring ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2925875-1&h=718957443&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kentik.com%2Fgo%2Fgartner-market-guide-digital-experience-monitoring-dem-2020%2F%3Futm_medium%3Dwebsite%26utm_source%3Dpess-release%26utm_campaign%3Dpr-dem%26utm_content%3Dnone%26utm_term%3Dnone&a=Market+Guide+for+Digital+Experience+Monitoring 
)", Federico De Silva, Charley Rich, Josh Chessman, 25 August 2020. 

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ABOUT KENTIK

Kentik(R) is the network intelligence platform for the connected world, trusted 
by leading digital enterprises and service providers. With Kentik, businesses 
eliminate the visibility and intelligence gaps associated with running dynamic 
and complex networks, and achieve greater network performance, reliability and 
security. The Kentik Network Intelligence Platform ingests diverse data streams 
from the internet, edge, cloud, data center and hybrid infrastructures and 
provides real-time visualizations and AIOps-powered insights and automation. 
Learn more at kentik.com.

SOURCE: Kentik

CONTACT: Michelle Kincaid, Director of Communications for Kentik, 
michelle@kentik.com ,+1 757-503-1123 ; BOCA Communications, 
kentik@bocacommunications.com , +1 415-205-5651