Stuffed from Thankgiving turkey, millions of people went shopping the next day, which is known as “Black Friday” because: a. it’s the day that retailers typically end up in-the-black b. the shopping traffic can be hell on both retail workers and the customers themselves, and c. all those footprints in and out of the malls [...]
Archive | November, 2007
VoIP eBook Excerpts: Critical Elements of Your VoIP Infrastructure
Over the next week on Network Performance Daily, we’ll excerpt sections of the new NetQoS VoIP ebook entitled VoIP: Do You See What I’m Saying. Today, we take a look at the hardware needed to equip your VoIP infrastructure. Obviously, VoIP systems don’t just require some server configuration and special software. Quite frankly, you can’t [...]
Connecting Belron
We’re just announcing that Belron US, Inc., a subsidiary of Belron S.A., makers of vehicle glass – you know, the stuff that you can see through but won’t shatter to pieces when a bird does a kamikaze run into it when you’re driving down the highway at 65 miles per hour – has been using [...]
A Holiday Message
To those of our readers in St. Lucia, we wish a happy Feast of St. Cecilia, to those in Germany, we wish you peace on Remembrance Day, and to those of our readers in the United States, we wish you a happy Thanksgiving, hope that you can be with your family at this time of [...]
Welcome to the Data Center, Here’s your Parka.
There’s a story in the newly free-for-online-viewing Wall Street Journal about how companies expanding globally often use multiple headquarters, leaving their original headquarters locations behind in an effort to become “global brands.” For example, Lenovo is a Chinese company – but they’ve got headquarters in Singapore and Raleigh. Companies have varied reasons for moving beyond [...]
High-power consumption could be confused with pot growing
By Brian Boyko Editor, Network Performance Daily The Austin Chronicle – Austin’s local alternative weekly newspaper – reported today that police busted a pot-growing operation in a rental property based on “data-mining” that they did using Austin Energy’s customer database. Colby’s lawyer, David Dudley, argues that APD Detective Jeff Haynes used energy-consumption information from thousands [...]
Network Performance Links: In Russia, Computer Reboots You.
Ars Technica: AT&T Takes Another Step Towards Filtered Network with Investment in Vobile AT&T announced in June that it would develop technology designed to prevent copyright infringement on its network – by, presumably, deep packet inspection combined with technology designed to identify video. Now they’re investing in Vobile, a company that makes a screening technology [...]
EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager and NetQoS SuperAgent
“You got application discovery in my end-to-end performance monitor! Oh yeah? You got end-to-end performance monitoring in my application discoverer!” NetQoS and EMC have developed integration that feeds EMC’s Application Discovery Manager (ADM) server and application data into NetQoS SuperAgent. That makes it a lot easier to set up the applications you want to monitor [...]
Network Performance Management Daily Links
ComputerWorld: 2007 Jobs Report Snapshots Ever wanted to feel depressed about how much money you’re making? Wait no longer! ComputerWorld has published their annual survey of IT salaries. IT salaries have risen at a slow but steady pace since hitting rock-bottom in 2002. Here are the IT pay raises from 1987 to 2007… The 2007 [...]
Advance the cause for network performance. Vote for Joel!
Joel Trammell is the CEO of NetQoS, an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award winner, and now, he’s a nominee for Inc. Magazine’s “Entrepreneur of the Year.” I don’t know much about business and investing – if I did, I wouldn’t have majored in liberal arts – but he anticipated the demand for
Network Performance Links: Encrypted Torrents, and Network Neutrality Squad To The Rescue!
The Register: Surge in encrypted torrents blindsides record biz Is it due to the high-profile filesharing lawsuits or – more likely – due to the fact that most of the major BitTorrent clients now come with encryption? Either way, the Register reports that over the past year, encrypted torrent traffic has risen from four percent [...]
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VoIP eBook Excerpts: Critical Elements of Your VoIP Infrastructure – Part 2
Between dial tone, number lookup, ringing, and busy signals, there’s quite a lot that has to happen before you even start speaking and what most people think of as a “phone call” even occurs. Call setup protocols not only do these things, but also perform after-call resource cleanup and statistical reporting. Each protocol uses TCP [...]