Business Intelligence Lowdown: How to be a Terrible Network Admin – 25 fail safe tips. I guess “practices to avoid in network administration” didn’t have quite the ring to it. Most of these are common sense tips; but because there’s so many of them, even the best of us could use a reminder – there’s [...]
Archive | February, 2007
In response to Dale Imler’s question…
By Tim Smith, John Mao, and Ben Erwin. Compiled by Brian Boyko. Dale Imler wrote in: I would like to see some information on how to use the SuperAgent and Reporter Analyzer for executive reporting and capacity planning. The big consideration with capacity planning is that it shouldn’t be done in absence of performance considerations, [...]
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Thursday Links: The server room is just past the emplaced gunnery, 3 types of IT departments, and IBM tells developers how to switch to Linux
DailyWTF: Bunker Buster Talk about misplaced priorities. This story from the DailyWTF (ah, DailyWTF – what would I do without you?) starts with a story about poor network performance, but ends with the world’s most secure insecure server. The President smirked. As they waited for the elevator, he told Jack about the facility. It was [...]
WAN Optimization Devices: What you need to consider before deployment.
by Dr. Cathy Fulton WAN optimization devices are certainly great pieces of technology. They do much to alleviate the problems that companies have with keeping applications which travel over the WAN responsive. But deployment is not without risks and companies need to look at cost vs. performance benefits. There are several benefits to WAN optimization. [...]
Tuesday Links: Upgrade Oops, Lsof the hook, Coding in a Web page
DailyWTF: Practice Makes Perfect Rule of thumb – when you’re given 6-12 months to do a SQL server upgrade, don’t just come in one weekend and upgrade all the servers. When Kevin returned from vacation on the day following New Year’s, he noticed an email sent from the issue tracker with the subject “Test email [...]
March Madness and other Network Crises: 4 Questions You Should Be Able to Answer
By Joel Trammell Soon, March Madness will come up and, like every year, there will likely be increased strain on corporate networks as people want to watch the games online. So wondering whether or not your network is ready for March Madness is a topic worthy of discussion. But being prepared for the spike in [...]
Q&A on NetQoS Performance Center 3.0, Part 2
By Ben Erwin, Product Manager for NetQoS Performance Center 3.0 & Steve Harriman, Vice President of Marketing at NetQoS: We’ve recently held a Webinar to discuss NetQoS Performance Center 3.0. We had a Q&A session there. We couldn’t get to all of the questions asked at the Webinar, so we’ve done our best to answer [...]
Thursday Links: Deep Links & VoIP Consequences
WebTVWire: Texas Judge Denies “Deep Linking” Appeal. To get to this article: 1) Go to www.webtvwire.com. 2) Browse to February 9th, 2007 in the listings. 3) Click on the story that is entitled “Judge Denies Appeal that Deep Linking Directly to Video and Audio Streams is Not Illegal” We could just tell you to go [...]
Q&A on NetQoS Performance Center 3.0
By Ben Erwin, Product Manager for NetQoS Performance Center 3.0 & Steve Harriman, Vice President of Marketing at NetQoS: We’ve recently held a Webinar to discuss NetQoS Performance Center 3.0. We had a Q&A session there and we would like to reproduce some of the questions attendees asked about NetQoS Performance Center 3.0, and the [...]
Tuesday Links: Dr. Wu on Network Neutrality and Wireless, and Finger-Pointing in IT
Dr. Tim Wu: Wireless Network Neutrality Dr. Tim Wu, whom we tried to contact for our series on Network Neutrality, but was regretfully unavailable, has produced a paper on network neutrality over wireless networks. This report finds a mixed picture. The wireless industry, over the last decade, has succeeded in bringing wireless telephony at competitive [...]
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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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Performance Problems Lead to Drop in the Dow
By Brian Boyko Although the stock market seems to have started recovering, trading in the New York Stock Exchange took a heavy tumble yesterday. There are two main theories about the market plunge. The first was a $100B drop in the value of the Shanghai stock market. The other is computer related. According to the [...]