Earlier today, Network World hosted a live chat with Jim Metzler, of Ashton, Metzler, and Associates on implementing WAN acceleration. They’ll have the full transcript up tomorrow on their site, but I attended and wanted to bring back a few highlights. —– Question: What is the one question that should be asked when evaluating products [...]
Archive | July, 2008
Integrating F5 Metrics. (This Post Is Not About Former Megadeth Bassists)
This blog post is about the integration of metrics from multiple F5 devices into the NetQoS Performance Center. When researching this article, I found out that this means that NetQoS Performance Center can import performance metrics from F5 Networks BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager and BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager, which provide services for managing application security, [...]
Oh boy! The Magic Rectangular Artifact Show is on!
Popular Mechanics recently published an article talking about one of the things that frustrates knowledgeable HDTV owners and merely confuses not-so-knowledgeable ones. There is no standard for the amount of acceptable compression on an HDTV signal. As it turns out, television bandwidth (in the electromagnetic spectrum sense) is very closely related to television bandwidth (in [...]
San Francisco’s Network Management Problems
You could say that San Franicsco had a network security issue, but that’s really not accurate. San Francisco’s network was secure. It’s just that it was secured against the wrong people. Though the San Francisco story of Terry Childs is nearing a conclusion, it’s important to look back at this and see what lessons we [...]
Upcoming Webcast: Tips for Optimizing Your VoIP Application Quality of Experience
Kim Shorb, Product Manager at NetQoS, and Jeff Hicks, NetQoS VoIP Architect, will be hosting a live Webcast on Tuesday, August 12th at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time. They’ll be talking about how to obtain metrics on call signaling and setup protocols, how to gauge the quality of VoIP voice calls, how to show the impact [...]
Further musings on Ono
Recently, we did an unscientific (and really, I cannot stress that word enough) but real-world test of performance using the Ono plugin for BitTorrent client Vuze/Azureus. Our results were inconclusive. David Choffnes, the author of the Ono plugin, responded to the test in our comments section of that article: Regarding your results, it is difficult [...]
Goldman Sachs: CIOs say IT jobs at risk in 2009
According to this recent article in ComputerWorld: IT staff jobs are at increasing risk — both for contractors and in-house workers — according to a survey of top CIOs by Goldman Sachs & Co. released last week. Global services companies will also feel the pinch because of the slowing economy. My reaction: According to the [...]
Is Web 2.0 bumming a ride?
Guest Post by Josh Hinkle Manager, Network Management & Security, American Heart Association As the youngest of three siblings I recall my brother hating to give my sister a ride to and from school. Even worse, he despised having her butt-in when he was hanging out with his friends. After all, he was cool and [...]
Whiteboard Series: Joel Trammell on Gas Mileage and Network Latency
In this short video, NetQoS CEO Joel Trammell talks about gas mileage improvements and latency improvements and why the graph tends to be a hyperbolic curve.
Does Ono speed up torrents? Informal test: Inconclusive.
I will assume we’re all adults here and that we see the benefits of BitTorrent for reasons other than criminal activity, but just to get this out of the way, NetQoS and Network Performance Daily do not condone the use of BitTorrent for blackmailing the king of Lichtenstein, rigging reality TV call-in voting shows, painting [...]
Does Your Network Need CPR?
Warning: Information contained herein is not actual medical advice and should not be used to aid a fallen co-worker suffering from a heart attack. However, in certain cases, it may prevent high blood pressure, headache, anxiety, depression, anger, and insomnia. An old saying in IT: You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Or as one [...]
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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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You get the fiber, I’ll get the backhoe.
Dr. Tim Wu has recently penned an editorial to the New York Times entitled “OPEC 2.0.” which argues that we need an alternative source of bandwidth much like we need alternative sources of energy. It’s the sort of editorial which causes other tech columnists and blog editors to immediately loathe themselves because it’s obvious in [...]