Boy, what a difference a year makes. “Black Friday” usually refers to the day after Thanksgiving, when retailers, both online and offline, started getting rushes of orders in order to fulfill Christmas demand. But unless you’re a Wall Street firm, for whom Christmas has come early, you’re probably cutting back on expenditures this holiday season. [...]
Archive | November, 2008
Swagflation
With the economy in a general nose dive, I figured that we could talk about something fun today. At every trade show, conference, and event with more than one vendor competing for your attention, there is bound to be “swag” – giveaways of small objects designed to be taken home and enjoyed with friends and [...]
Who you gonna call? – Networking Myth Busting
The Ghostbusters are awesome. They’re awesome because not only did they have to believe in ghosts, they also had to study ghosts and figure out the physics behind ghosts in order to develop the tools in order to bust ghosts. How did Egon Spengler know that an unlicensed nuclear accelerator would even affect incorporeal ectoplasmic [...]
Overview of Network Performance Daily’s Network Neutrality Coverage
Welcome Slashdot and Stumbleupon readers. The recent article interviewing Tim Lee is getting some play, so we thought that it would be a good time to go and compile some of our previous coverage of the Network Neutrality issue. January 4, 2007: Network Neutrality Debate: An Introduction and Discussion January 7, 2007: Clarification: A Case [...]
How do you quantify MPLS? – Why Networks Often Fail (To Perform)
Part 7 in a series adapted from Joel Trammell’s Keynote Speech at NetQoS Symposium 2008 Think back three years ago. Back then, how many of you had an MPLS environment? The carriers have been busy. And in that MPLS environment you lose visibility. So how do you quantify how the performance has changed and how [...]
Network Neutrality without regulation? Interview with Tim Lee.
By and large, the argument over network neutrality tends to be dominated by two specific groups, says Tim Lee. Those coming from a technical background who talk about the important nature of the Internet’s open end-to-end principles, or those from an economic background who talk about how non-neutrality makes business sense. Lee, a frequent contributor [...]
Virtualization and Performance – Why networks often fail (to perform)
Part 6 in a series adapted from Joel Trammell’s Keynote Speech at NetQoS Symposium 2008 How many of you out there are doing a server virtualization project? More specifically, how many of you are doing a server virtualization project that you know of? Because often in companies, the server group will start consolidating servers in [...]
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
I’ve just come back from vacation. I’ve been in New Zealand for the past two weeks. (Did you miss me? I missed you.) Anyway, after the stress of the U.S. elections, (I am a political animal*) I needed it, badly. I headed to New Zealand, mostly because I’m obsessed with the country’s multi-party electoral system [...]
WAN Optimization and the AutoCAD Problem – Why Networks Fail (to Perform)
Part 5 in a series adapted from Joel Trammell’s Keynote Speech at NetQoS Symposium 2008 One of the big downsides to WAN Optimization is that you’re breaking up the TCP session that used to be from one end of the network to the other into three independent TCP sessions. To measure the response time after [...]
Data Consolidation and Performance – Why Networks Fail (to Perform)
Part 4 in a series adapted from Joel Trammell’s Keynote Speech at NetQoS Symposium 2008 Is anyone out there contemplating a data center consolidation project or happen to be in the middle of one? How are you going to ensure that performance is consistent, when what you’ve effectively done– and most executives in IT don’t [...]
Highlights From VoiceCon
OCS is Legit Microsoft OCS r2 seems to be on everyone’s mind these days, and No Jitter’s Sheila McGee-Smith was impressed by Microsoft’s keynote at VoiceCon. There was even a good demo, which can often be a yawn at a keynote. Information Week’s Eric Krapf offers a little more depth on some of the enterprise [...]
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YouTube: Bigger, Wider.
YouTube now supports both widescreen video and 720p High Definition content. So, if recreational network use was a problem before, hold on to your kiesters. We can speculate on a couple of reasons for this changeover. One is competition from video services offering higher quality downloads in widescreen formats, such as Blip.tv and Vimeo. Another [...]