NPD: A critical look at Sarbanes-Oxley Passionate: Don’t make the demo look done. Security.ITworld.com: After one month, no rush to adopt Vista. CNN Technology: Music denied — shoppers overwhelm iTunes. Enterprise Architecture: Thought Leadership: How to become an expert on enterprise architecture. Computer Weekly: VoIP hacking exposed in new book. TechDirt: Muni Fiber Keeps Helping [...]
Archive | December, 2006
A Critical Look at Sarbanes-Oxley
by Joel Trammell Sarbanes-Oxley (Sarbox) compliance puts a heavy burden on IT teams to implement identity management systems to track who made changes to financial information, when they did it, and how they did it. This is an expensive and time-consuming process. But we often take a look at solving the problem without taking a [...]
Daily Links: Ford dead, Wired 2006 malaprops, New Linux Kernel, Counterproductive Traffic Shaping, Geek/Nerd/Dork, Vista TCP/IP Security
President Gerald Ford dead at the age of 93 Wired News: 2006 Foot In Mouth Awards Kerneltrap: Linux Kernel 2.4.34 Released TechDirt: Trying to Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic will Backfire, Badly Militant Geek: Geek vs. Nerd vs. Dork: Symantec Advanced Threat Research: Windows Vista Network Attack Surface Analysis: A Broad Overview [PDF] More below the [...]
8 Tech Predictions for 1997 (made in 2006)
By Brian Boyko Well, 1996 is almost over and we’re really excited about the technologies of the upcoming year. At the risk of becoming Cassandra, I thought it might be fun to predict what 1997 holds for technology – don’t hold me to it, though! (Continued)
Daily Links: Lego, 2006 in Review, and a congressional aide gets “smurfed”
NPD: NetQoS in Lego Processor: 2006 – The IT Year That Was Security Focus: Congressional aide gets punk’d More below the fold…
NetQoS – in Lego
Katheryn Jager helped design this custom LEGO Factory kit of NetQoS headquarters and Austin, TX landmarks for each of our department heads. Here is a picture of lego bricks in general disarray in Steve Harriman’s (V.P. of Marketing) office, and below it, the assembled project in CEO Joel Trammell’s office. Visible are (clockwise from bottom [...]
Daily Links: Network Visibility, Linux via Network, and IBM on Second Life
NPD: Techniques for Visibility in the Network Howto Forge: Setting up a PXE Install Server for Multiple Linux Distributions with Ubuntu Edgy Eft Bob Sutor @ IBM: My Second Life Also, a notice: As the end-of-the year and the Christmas holiday approach, Network Performance Daily will publish only on Wednesday and Friday in order to [...]
Network Visibility Techniques
by Kevin Davis It might not be possible to understate the importance of network visibility. Without visibility, the last words captured on the black box flight recorder are likely to be “What’s a mountain goat doing way up here in this cloud bank?” (Apologies to Gary Larson.) Imagine attempting to manage network performance across an [...]
Daily Links: WAAS, Venice Project, Skype Worm, and Wikicensorship
NPD: WAAS Up with Cisco’s WAN Optimization Initiative? ArsTechnica: Venice Project Goes Beta ZDNet.co.uk: Skype worm spotted Jeff Pulver Blog: Jeff Pulver Removed from Wikipedia More below the fold…
WAAS Up with Cisco’s WAN Optimization Initiative?
For more information on this topic, you can download our Tech Brief on Cisco WAAS, available here by Steve Fulton Users expect a ubiquitous and instantaneous network, as well as consistent application performance. This, combined with a proliferation of business critical, Web 2.0, (and recreational) applications that consume precious WAN bandwidth, forces IT to get [...]
Daily Links: Dev’ers vs. Net’ers, Linux Distro Map, Skype 3 Cloaking, VPN on Cisco Routers, Predicting Behaviors
NPD: “Aren’t Routers Boring?” the developer asked. kde-look.org: Linux Distribution Timeline Computerworld: Networks beware: Skype 3.0 includes new cloaking technology Cisco Blog: Configuring a Cisco Router to Accept VPN Connections InfoWorld: Predicting human behavior is not an exact science More below the fold…
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“BYOD” Inspires FUD in IT Managers
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4-Day Work Week? Heck yeah!
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The Illusion of ITIL and the Misunderstanding of IT Tools
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Much “To-Do” About Nothing
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Service Assurance Daily Weekly Reading List
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How to Play a Complete Game when Managing IT
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Editorial: State of the Blog, Q1, 2007
By Brian Boyko In the first tentative months of Network Performance Daily, I can come to a very simple conclusion: We are probably going to end up learning more about the new medium of blogging than we currently know. We’ve had some successes; both of our articles on Windows Vista’s TCP/IP stack landed on the [...]