A year ago, ITWire wrote a story about Adobe moving into the SaaS market with a free, entry-level version of photoshop… within six months. That version of Photoshop launched yesterday. Dubbed Adobe Photoshop Express to distinguish it from the desktop-based Adobe Photoshop Elements, the service is much like Picasa or Picnik, and in fact, despite [...]
Archive | March, 2008
Air Force Cyber Command
By Ben Erwin Thanks to the latest Die Hard movie, I’m still fighting the urge to unplug my microwave to foil hacker attempts. Thanks to the U.S. government, however, we have a new line of defense against kitchen appliances of mass destruction. The U.S. government has setup a new command center in the Air Force [...]
Latency in the Financial Sector
If there’s one thing that we’ve been trying to impress, other than our abiding love for D&D, it is the idea that while a large amount of throughput is good, low latency should not be ignored. We’ve talked about how the idea of “chatty apps” that make lots of calls to the server for data [...]
Xserve’s utility decreases as virtualization becomes ubiquitous.
Apple hasn’t made many overtures to business; the announcement that King Jobs had deigned to allow enterprise apps in his iPhone fiefdom took many by surprise. Apple’s previous attempts at wooing enterprise customers, specifically the Xserve, seemed, in my opinion, more like a half-hearted reassurance to shareholders that they weren’t completely ignoring the enterprise market. [...]
Network Performance Links: Muni Wi-Fi and the effects of BitTorrent “swarming”
I’ll be frank – I couldn’t think of a good idea for an article today. There are a couple of interesting links in the news, of course, which I could share with you. And we will get to those in a second, but… …truth is, I wanted to get a little introspective about things. This [...]
The kids are alright: IT and Generation Y
Baseline magazine recently put out an article warning IT departments of under-30 “risk takers.” Of course. Why not? Everyone knows that the youth are stuck up, and don’t fit into corporate culture. Being 29 years old a week from tomorrow, I was keenly interested (if giddily bemused) in what pejorative things they had to say [...]
The Performance Mindset
Bruce Schneier, contributor to Wired Magazine, recently wrote about the security mindset in an article entitled: “Inside the twisted mind of a security professional.” I really do recommend you read the whole thing – it contains very practical advice about security – computer and otherwise. But by all means, do please come back, eventually, because [...]
Who owns the virtual server?
The ultimate function of the IT department is to provide delivery of the business critical applications in a speedy and reliable manner to the users who need them. Virtualization doesn’t change that. It merely changes everything else. The funny thing about a virtual server is that it is the living embodiment of the idea that [...]
VoIP Monitor v1.1 released, and interesting things about SIP
We’re releasing NetQoS VoIP Monitor v1.1. Biggest changes: SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) support, automatic and on-demand problem investigation, and capacity planning reports. I want to start with SIP support, because there’s an interesting related story that caught my attention when it came out on Slashdot. One of the odd things about SIP is that it [...]
St. Patrick’s Day
It’s always hard to write these posts – that is, a holiday post should be a “gimmie” – you mention how much you like the holiday, and you find some lame way to tie it into network engineering or network monitoring, and you have a post and can spend the rest of your day doing [...]
I watch NBC on PCP. No, wait, I meant P2P!
Verizon and NBC are working on serving up TV shows to home computers. The problem is, high definition video, (and I’ve done some HD video work for the Web – shameless plug), takes a whole mess of bandwidth. Now, the obvious solution for NBC would be to move to some sort of peer-to-peer distribution system, [...]
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“BYOD” Inspires FUD in IT Managers
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4-Day Work Week? Heck yeah!
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The Illusion of ITIL and the Misunderstanding of IT Tools
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Much “To-Do” About Nothing
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Service Assurance Daily Weekly Reading List
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Wireshark open source network packet sniffer reaches v1.0
For open source projects, v1.0 is generally a major milestone; one that is usually well earned. After all, in open-source software, changes between versions are incremental and it can be a long time before hitting the 1.0 milestone. For example, Mozilla – the original, before Firefox eclipsed it and it became SeaMonkey – spent four [...]