By Brian Boyko Editor, Network Performance Daily Heather Havenstein at ComputerWorld just released a story online about corporate blogging – about how corporate blogs sound less like re-hashed press releases and have started sounding – well, more like humans. More like people. More like… us. July 30, 2007 (Computerworld) — NetQoS Inc. is a vendor [...]
Happy SAD.
That’s “Sysadmin Appreciation Day.” If you happen to be a regular reader of Network Performance Daily that also doesn’t happen to read at least one of the following: Slashdot, Digg, Network World, HardOCP, and numerous other publications, you’ll be glad to learn that today is Sysadmin Appreciation Day. Similar to Secretaries Day, SAD is a [...]
Thursday Links: New Ethernet Standard(?), Deep Packet Inspection, Overzealous spamfighting, Wi-Fi Jersey, Martha Stewart, and the speed of Light (imperial)
Mcox.com: New Ethernet Standard both 40Gbps and 100Gbps In a move worthy of the wisdom of King “Split ‘em” Solomon, the IEEE has decided that the next generation of Ethernet will support both 40Gbps and 100Gbps. The higher speed required more expensive and power-hungry equipment… Unable to come up with a consensus the HSSG decided [...]
Tuesday Links (on Wednesday): Reaction to Cisco/NetQoS WAAS announcement; and ISPs mess with DNS to [remove/insert] adware (Choose one.)
Tuesday Links On Wednesday: Coverage from the NetQoS/Cisco WAAS announcement, and other stuff. First, here’s what people are saying about yesterday’s NetQoS/Cisco announcement: ZDNet UK: IT pros get to grips with WAN reports EWeek: Cisco, NetQOS Prove WAN Optimization Gains Network World: Cisco adds security, monitoring to WAN optimization gear Search Networking: Cisco adds monitoring [...]
Tracking The Optimized WAN: NetQoS Integrates with Cisco WAAS to Deliver End-to-End Application Response Time Reporting for WAN Optimization
The big problem with WAN Optimization and Application Performance Monitoring was that there simply wasn’t a WAN Optimization solution on the market that preserved end-to-end performance data, nor a monitoring solution that would work in an optimized WAN. This problem has been solved. At Cisco Networkers in Anaheim, NetQoS gave a presentation to hundreds of [...]
Application Delivery: Merging Applications and Network Operations into “Application Delivery”
By Brian Boyko At the NetQoS symposium last April, Jim Metzler focused his keynote speech on the idea that in enterprise networking, you’re either developing applications or delivering applications. That struck a chord with Carl Duhnoski at PSS/World Medical, who began to put together a plan to merge the application and network operations teams into [...]
WAN Optimization Survey Results: Visibility into optimized WANs, “Important” or “Very Important,” Say Nine in Ten.
During a recent NetQoS – Cisco WAN Optimization Seminar Series, and to some extent at Interop, NetQoS launched a survey regarding WAN Optimization. We found some interesting things: Over 90% of the survey respondents said that it is either important or very important to be able to quantify accurately the results of WAN optimization. Over [...]
Thursday Links: Bad Mojo – Malware/Spammers use new “load balancing” tool; a former spammer points out tricks of his trade
Dark Reading: Attackers Hide in Fast Flux Criminal organizations behind two infamous malware families — Warezov/Stration and Storm — in the past few months have separately moved their infrastructures to so-called fast-flux service networks, according to the Honeynet Project & Research Alliance, which has released a new report on the emerging networks and techniques. So [...]
You don’t know what’s in / Anaheim. / Why don’t you come with me (little girl) / on a magic carpet ride?
At this year’s NetQoS invitation-only Networkers After-Party at the House of Blues in Disneyland Anaheim, we’re going to bring you what we call the Netcosm Immersion Experience. The Netcosm Immersion Experience will take our Netcosm tech demo and project it on the inside of a walk-in cube on the dance floor of the House of [...]
Tuesday Links: Tips for better IT management; Network World Roundup.
ZDNet Australia: 10 tips to being a better IT manager This article contains, to the complete lack of everyone’s surprise, ten tips for managing IT departments better. (I mean, it kinda gives it away in the title, now, doesn’t it?) It’s easy for IT managers to get bogged down in day-to-day activities and lose sight [...]
Whiteboard Series: The impact of WAN Optimization on NetFlow/IPFIX measurements
John Mao, product manager at NetQoS, quickly explains the impact of WAN Optimization on Cisco IOS NetFlow/IPFIX information gathering in a short video, as part of our “Whiteboard Series.” If you have questions about the video, please leave a comment below and we’ll do our best to answer them. ————– More information: On WAN Optimization: [...]
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Video of the Netcosm Immersion Experience
If you weren’t able to come to the NetQoS Networkers after-party at the House of Blues in Anaheim, we uploaded this short video which shows you what it was like inside our Netcosm Immersion Experience. Enjoy!