WebPerformance: Load Testing a Virtual Web Application Christopher Merrill takes an academic look and tests out the performance of virtualized servers. He notes that for the added ease of server administration, you are taking a performance hit, and can serve a fewer number of users. We ran 4 load tests on the application. The first [...]

When most people think of running Windows programs without Windows, they usually think of WINE, the API developed for Unix systems. But there’s another project, called ReactOS, which is an open-source, GPL-compatible operating system designed to run Windows programs and work with Windows drivers – essentially, rebuilding Windows from the ground up without using Microsoft’s [...]

By Beth McAfee I spent my vacation visiting South by Southwest (SxSW) here in downtown Austin. Besides the secrets to the success of tech stars everywhere, here are some interesting things I learned at the Interactive side of SxSW, and how they apply to network performance: People are considering putting broadband municipal internet over broadcast [...]

By Brian Boyko From the latest XKCD: Where did those people in the distant future get the idea that bloggers wore red capes, goggles and blog from high altitude balloons? The wind would blow papers right off my desk. That’s why I blog from my secret volcano lair. I’m hoping that other bloggers out there [...]

By Brian Boyko “O, Canada,” I sang, “Our home and native land. True patriot love. And all thy son’s com—” “Brian,” interrupted Andrea in the next office over. “What are you doing?” The truth is I was working on this editorial, which is ostensibly about VoIP and traffic and networks and data analysis and all [...]

By Joel Trammell In the NetQoS offices, I can often be found out of my office, walking around and just talking to people in the different departments of the company. This practice has unofficially been dubbed “Joel’s management by walking around thing.” It seems to work. Employee satisfaction is high, employee turnover is low, and [...]