I first heard about this pressing enterprise information technology concern when a friend directed me to MyTractorForum.com. Now, I know more people with Segways than tractors. But the story involved the Kingsbury electrical substation less than five miles from my condo, and it involved someone who apparently broke through the fences in order to dig [...]
Archive | February, 2008
Windows Server 2008 launched
Windows Server 2008 officially launched today with little fanfare; but the new enterprise-class operating system has been eagerly awaited by people who eagerly await operating systems, instead of going out and having a good time with their lives. NetworkWorld has a thorough review of the W2K8 OS up on their site, but spends a bit [...]
Interesting network applications and the worthwhile endeavor of “attempting not to get blown up.”
Just a quick post today – I wanted to call attention to an article by David Talbot of MIT’s Technology Review, entitled “A Technology Surges” about how DARPA produced a kind of wikified Google Maps for Iraq-stationed patrol commanders. The application, called the “Tactical Ground Reporting System” or, because the military loves acronyms, “TIGR” – [...]
Walking on AIR: Adobe’s new “offline-online” app dev platform and what it means for network needs
The release of Adobe AIR today might just bring about major changes – both good and bad – for network performance. AIR is a way to produce Web apps that can be run as desktop apps. It is cross-platform and relies, like Java, on a just-in-time compiler and an interpreter of application bytecode. There are [...]
New NetFlow Webcast: Improving End-user Application Performance with Network Behavior Analysis
Wondering about the traffic that traverses your enterprise network? Concerned that malicious or recreational traffic is eating into your precious bandwidth? Just want to know if traffic trends are impacting overall application performance? Get answers in this live NetFlow Webcast on February 26th, 2008. NetQoS expertise will to give examples of how to use network [...]
Sleepless in the Data Center.
If this blog post seems a little… more off kilter than usual, it may have something to do with the fact that I’m totally wiped. See, I bought an IKEA bed and assembled it by myself last night. Now, I won’t say that it wasn’t time-consuming, but apart from the part where I had to [...]
Network Visibility: What we need to know is NOT what we already know.
What network engineers need to know is not what they already know. This is because if they already knew it, they wouldn’t need to know it, after all, because they already know it. And if they didn’t know it, well, then, they wouldn’t have known it, then, unless they’ve forgotten it, in which case all [...]
Castro retires, or, El Legacy Hardware
CIA Plan #328 to remove Castro from power in Cuba has succeeded. This plan, also known as “wait until El Presidente gets old and retires,” now suggests that there will be vast geopolitical changes. However, while Castro may be retiring, the communist regime he’s supported for nearly half a century isn’t going away, and whoever [...]
Psst. Want to buy a number?: Speculation on speculation on an IPv4 black market.
Last Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2007, Carolyn Duffy Marsan at NetworkWorld wrote, “The American Registry for Internet Numbers plans to post proposed changes to its IPv4 address space transfer policy on its Web site this week.” According to NetworkWorld, that would allow ISPs to transfer IPv4 address registrations; and thus fuels speculation that IPv4 addresses would [...]
Discontinuation of Polaroid film means big-picture changes to the network.
It was almost inevitable in the age of the digital camera; Polaroid is discontinuing production of Polaroid film for its once ubiquitous “instant” cameras. For many, this means the loss of nostalgic memories with a family camera. However, while digital cameras have filled the need for instant photography more effectively than the Polaroid camera could [...]
The Paradox of SAAS: Microsoft, Yahoo, and new challenges in IT.
By now, everyone will have heard of Microsoft’s hostile takeover bid for Yahoo, and of Yahoo’s board rebuffing the offer. What people may not be thinking about would be how a “Microhoo!” would affect IT application performance planning. While it’s clear that Microsoft, having been unsuccessful in promoting its own software-as-a-service offerings, is now trying [...]
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Anomaly Detector, our network behavior analysis tool, discovers something horrible. See the video below for details.