Right now, some of NetQoS’s best and brightest are at the Interop conference in Las Vegas. (Our booth number is 1853, and that should be easy to remember – it’s the same year the Crimean War started.) I’m not with them. Not so much that I’m not one of the best and brightest here, but [...]
Archive | April, 2008
Network Performance Links – Hostile takeovers, Next Gen NOC, and Richard Stallman
We’re all a bit busy – a big chunk of us are at Interop setting up our booth (shameless plug!), and I’m working on taking symposium presentations and making video and multimedia presentations out of them. But there are a few interesting articles out there that we thought you’d like to see. First, Pmarca.com has [...]
Security Gone Wild: The biggest lock on an empty chest.
One of the things in IT that baffles me is the intense emphasis on security. Don’t get me wrong, I can understand the psychology of it. We, as human beings, fear loss more than we appreciate gain. But security seems to be one of the primary overriding concerns of networking, with entire magazines, trade publications, [...]
MySQL isn’t going from open to closed-source. However, D&D is.
Recently, there’s been some discussion on Slashdot regarding MySQL in the past few months, after MySQL (the company) was bought out by Sun Microsystems. MySQL (the company) has announced that they will be developing some proprietary add-ons to the backup capabilities of MySQL (the database) which will only be available to MySQL’s (the company’s) customers [...]
You knew this already, but Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04) is out.
Just a quick note: Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) was released today. Look for heavy showers of BitTorrent and FTP traffic, as well as additional LAN traffic later in the day. “Heron” comes with increased virtualization support and is a “Long Term Support” release, which makes the platform significant for enterprise applications. You may want to [...]
Wednesday’s Symposium Schedule
Here’s today’s Symposium Schedule: Starts Ends Track One: Product Education & Best Practices (Darrell Royal A) Track Two: Product Education & Best Practices (Darrell Royal B & C) Track Three: Product Education & Best Practices (Live Oak B & C) Track Four: Product Education & Best Practices (Forum Amphitheater) 8:00 8:30 Breakfast 8:30 9:30 Speaker: [...]
Tuesday’s Symposium Schedule
Here’s today’s symposium schedule: Starts Ends Track One: Product Education & Best Practices (Darrell Royal A) Track Two: Product Education & Best Practices (Darrell Royal B & C) Track Three: Product Education & Best Practices (Live Oak B & C) Track Four: NetAnalyst Training (Forum Amphitheater) 8:00 8:30 Breakfast 8:30 9:30 Keynote Address: Carl Duhnoski, [...]
Podcast: Dr. Jim Metzler on the Next Generation NOC
In a few minutes, Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler, and Associates, will be delivering his keynote on the Next Generation NOC at NetQoS Symposium 2008 at Barton Creek Resort in Austin. Last week, we pre-recorded a podcast with Dr. Metzler regarding the speech he is about to give and what he means by a “next [...]
Monday’s Symposium Schedule
Here’s today’s Symposium Schedule: Starts Ends Track One: Product Education & Best Practices (Darrell Royal A) Track Two: Product Education & Best Practices (Darrell Royal B & C) Track Three: NetFlow Boot Camp (Live Oak B & C) Track Four: NetAnalyst Training (Forum Amphitheater) 8:00 8:30 Registration and Breakfast 8:30 9:30 Welcome Address: Joel Trammell [...]
Looking forward to Symposium
We’re looking forward to NetQoS Symposium 2008, which starts this Sunday. We’ll be providing schedules on the site, and you can get updates on what’s happening at Symposium from our Twitter feed. It’s available on this Web page, but you can also subscribe to it on whatever mobile device you’d like. Here’s Sunday’s schedule: Starts [...]
Podcast: Dr. Jim Metzler talks about Handbook of Application Delivery 2008 and NetQoS Symposium.
Today, in this podcast, we speak to Dr. Jim Metzler at Ashton, Metzler, and Associates regarding his handbook, “The Handbook of Application Delivery 2008″ and his upcoming keynote speech a NetQoS Symposium 2008.
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Polling at Interop.
NetQoS and Network Instruments polled attendees at Interop yesterday; to try to find out the network’s greatest management challenges. Close to 80% of attendees are either using virtualization now or planning to use virtualization in 12 months, and a plurality of respondents – 38% – said the virtualization presented the greatest monitoring challenges. What’s interesting [...]