Ars Technica: Report: 802.11n good enough to chase Ethernet from the enterprise. Are we near the point where wireless networks can replace good, old Ethernet? A new report from The Burton Group answers that question in the affirmative, saying that the increased speeds and other features of 802.11n should be enough for many companies to [...]

Mark Russinovich: Vista Multimedia Playback and Network Throughput Sure, network performance is affected by people downloading YouTube videos and streaming radio stations, but if you use Windows Vista, it can also be affected by playing media you’ve already downloaded, as Mark Russinovich explains: A few weeks ago a poster with the handle dloneranger reported in [...]

Wall Street Journal: What Did U $@y? Online Language Finds Its Voice This is another case of: “The story isn’t news, the publication it’s reported in, is.” In this hard hitting expose by the Wall Street Journal, arguably one of the pre-eminent business newspapers of the world, reporter Christopher Rhoads takes a hard look at [...]

ComputerWorld: How IT is rethinking the traditional budgeting process Seemingly straightforward, the traditional IT budgeting process still manages to put many CIOs and IT controllers on the defensive. Corporate accountants and business unit leaders demand to know what departments are getting in exchange for their technology surcharges, which are often levied as a chargeback or [...]

Our friends and business partners at Network Instruments have recently started their own blog, called “Network Observations.” The name is a reference, partially to the Gigastor probe, which they develop and we at NetQoS resell. It’s a retrospective network analysis tool that enables one to observe all the traffic that has passed through the network [...]