Douglas Gourlay from Cisco has posted a comment on this site which probably explains some of the features of the Nexus 7000 much better than I possibly could. Please check it out. Cisco just announced its Nexus 7000 switch will be available in the second half of 2008. The Nexus is a rather large machine [...]
Archive | January, 2008
The Ten Other Reasons To Attend NetQoS Symposium 2008
The Ten Other Reasons To Attend NetQoS Symposium 2008. As you may know, NetQoS’s annual Symposium will be held April 20-23, 2008 at the Barton Creek Resort in Austin, Texas. And if you’re not familiar with the Symposium, it’s three days of presentations, workshops, training, and entertainment. Combining the best parts of “seminar,” “study group,” [...]
Network World Needs Your Suggestion for Top 20 Cisco Networking Websites.
Linda Leung, the editor of the Cisco Subnet of Network World is compiling a list of Web sites that are useful to Cisco networking professionals – the sites you go for for news, how-tos, resources, and so on. Hey, wait a minute! We’re a Web site! And we cover networking news – a lot of [...]
How to start a revolution with a child’s toy: What Johnny Lee’s head-tracking Wiimote means for UI design, and how it can affect the enterprise.
You’ve probably already seen the video below. 2.6 million people already have. Obviously, the material covered is amazing and it’s an ingenious hack – the fact that the rig consisted of some cheap goggles, LED lights, and a $40 kid’s toy hooked up to a PC made it even more impressive. NetQoS is working on [...]
Aberdeen Network Management Report Validates Our Strategic Approach
The Aberdeen Group, a provider of business research services surveyed 205 organizations last month to identify best practices for enterprise network visibility initiatives and controls. They called the report “The Real Value of Network Visibility.” In the interests of full disclosure, it should be said that NetQoS co-sponsored the study but we did so only [...]
Network Performance Miscellany for Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008
So much happening in the world of network management software today, here’s a quick look: 2008 Network Computing Awards Finalist – Cast Your Vote Today The NetQoS Performance Center has been named as a finalist for the 2008 Network Computing Awards for “Test and Monitoring Product of the Year” based on the number of user [...]
Cisco’s ACE in the Hole: Differentiating Application Acceleration
It’s interesting that we’re coming out with an announcement about our support for Cisco Application Control Engine modules and appliances today, considering it’s the same day when Juniper announced that it’s not going to continue their DX application acceleration offerings. Juniper made the decision, because, according to Network World, “[Juniper] regards it as insufficiently distinguishable [...]
Network World compiling list of favorite IT products for 2007. We’re going with the DoorSlinky™
by Brian Boyko Editor, Network Performance Daily Anne Bednarz, Network World’s associate news editor, is currently compiling a followup to “Five Raves” in which customers talk about their favorite, must-have products. The idea is that the solicitations for suggested topics come not from a company’s PR department or from a reviewer but from the IT [...]
Recreational Network Traffic, Wafaa Bilal and Untraceable- The Movie
Does art imitate life, or life imitate art? I don’t know, and really, it has nothing to do the fun we at NetQoS are having with the new movie Untraceable and it’s uncanny resemblance to our Network Performance Daily post on Wafaa Bilal. Here’s a little slice of life into our day: Pam: Hey, Brian, [...]
Is Time Warner’s “pay-as-you-go” trial good network management planning? Probably not.
Editorial by Brian Boyko Editor, Network Performance Daily Ars Technica reported that a memo claiming that Time Warner was going to roll out a “pay-as-you-go” metered scheme for Internet access, rather than today’s subscription-based unlimited bandwidth access plans was leaked to BroadbandReports.com. That memo, which since has been removed, claimed that Time Warner was going [...]
Oracle buys BEA, Sun buys MySQL, Boyko buys this round.
Two major acquisitions in today’s news. First, Sun Microsystems, (not to be confused with the actual Sun, which has a rather lower page rank than Sun Microsystems despite the fact that the nuclear fusion inside its core is the indirect source of all the energy, and thus life, on Earth,) has bought MySQL AB for [...]
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Editorial: The Top Eight Network Performance Issues that you should keep in mind for SuperTuesday, Part I
SuperTuesday is coming up in less than a week, and many people, (including myself,) are chomping at the bit to talk about politics. Don’t get me wrong; this is a blog focused on issues that affect network performance in enterprise (read: business) environments, and politics and vendor blogs go together like potassium chlorate and gummi [...]