Australia drops Internet filtering plans, New Zealand backtracks on S92, and in Sweden, the Pirate Bay is on trial. The world is interesting these days. First, Australia: According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Government’s plan to introduce mandatory Internet filtering (which we’ve covered previously) has been effectively defeated when independent Senator Nick Xenophon [...]
Archive | February, 2009
Monitoring Quality of Experience crucial to VoIP, Moose Dentbling.
I really hope that you enjoyed yesterday’s “Geek vs. Wild” post. Partially because it was really fun to do and if I get enough feedback, I can justify going back out into the woods with Ben to film sequels. One of the things that I hope you noticed on “Geek vs. Wild” was that most [...]
Geek Vs. Wild
The last time we saw Ben Erwin, he was playing Ping Pong while explaining how to leverage Cisco’s NAM. Today, we went out into the woods and filmed his alter ego, “Network Survival Expert Moose Dentabling” out in the Texas wilderness, relying solely on what he can find inside old network gear for survival. Really, [...]
I’m Jealous of NetQoS Connector for EMC Smarts
I wish my love life were as thrilling and fulfilling as the love life of NetQoS Performance Center. The charming network monitoring suite just hooked up with EMC Smarts. They not only hooked up quickly, they’ve started cohabitating: Through the NetQoS Connector for EMC Smarts, you can now view performance data from the EMC Smarts [...]
Cisco’s Edge Quest Two
Last time Cisco came out with a game to market their routers, I pretended to knock off Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation. This time I’m not going to do that because my fake British accent from Australia stinks. I will however talk about Cisco’s new Cisco Edge Quest 2 game – designed to market the ASR [...]
Power Corrupts. Network Power Management is kind of neat.
The Cisco EnergyWise solution, which we wrote about earlier when it was unveiled at CiscoLive! in Barcelona, is starting to gather some attention. For example, the Forrester Infrastructure Blog recently wrote about how EnergyWise can change basic assumptions within the ruling theory of IT. (And yes, I wrote that all out so that I wouldn’t [...]
Leveraging Cisco NAM as NetQoS Data Collector – Whiteboard Series
Ben Erwin, Technical Marketing Manager at NetQoS, comes back for another Whiteboard Series video to explain how NetQoS’s integration into the Cisco NAM means that you need fewer data collectors and can lower your costs by leveraging your existing infrastructure. He also, for some completely non-sequitur reason, plays ping-pong. A high definition version can be [...]
Keeping an eye on outsourced IT
As far as enterprise technology companies go, Savvis is probably one of the more interesting ones. They provide managed services for enterprise IT functions, building “IT infrastructure as a service.” (This type of outsourced IT model is more typically found in Europe, though as Savvis shows, there are advantages to using this method in the [...]
The Really Bad Ideas Come Around Again.
Is it that time again? Another media outlet suggests that the Internet is so clogged up with worms, spam, and people who can be broadly classified as “jerks,” that the only solution is to ditch it and come up with something else? I suppose it is – although this time, it’s John Markoff of the [...]
More on Virtualization
In yesterday’s post, we talked about the problem with input/output delay on virtualized desktops, though to be fair, we only really talked about one type of virtualized desktop solution. That is, we talked about the challenges associated with server-side desktop virtualization, where the OS runs on the server and the end-user essentially sits at the [...]
The WAN and the Virtualized Remote Desktop
Network World’s Jim Duffy’s latest article, “WAN critical to virtualization’s payoff” has me in knots. It’s well known that by virtualizing servers, you can consolidate them more easily in a single data center; but in order to maintain performance, you need high performing, low-latency WAN connections. We’ve written about this before, and it’s only more [...]
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Protection on the network allows for more on the desktop
Today was a frustrating day. I was hoping to have a video to show you but the best laid plans… Essentially, I was thwarted because part of the video would have involved using one of the company’s projectors, and it seemed that the computers I had administrative access to didn’t have sound, and the computers [...]