Thanks to Slashdot, I think I’ve found the source of the badly mangled story from Australia I reported from yesterday: Nemertes Research, which is quoted in this Times Online article.  (It would have been easier had Seven News just mentioned the name of the research group in their original coverage.) And it’s a shame too, [...]

People have a tendency to strongly prefer avoiding losses to acquiring gains.  For example, which would make you feel better: getting a $10 discount, or getting a $10 gift card? If you answered the latter, you’re obviously not human and should report to the nearest alien processing facility where you will be “massaged” in the [...]

By Stephen Creel I just completed my 6th annual Symposium as a NetQoS employee and I want to thank our customers for making this another success. I was thinking back to my first one (2004) and there are some pleasing contrasts between that initial experience and what we accomplished this week. The early Symposia were [...]

While it’s a bit soon to be revisiting Time Warner’s bandwidth caps, there have been a few developments which make this story more interesting and more relevant. One of the biggest is the idea that Time Warner had tied planned DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades to the incorporation of bandwidth caps – and that, as Austin and [...]

There’s been a lot of discussion this week at Symposium about dealing with the daily realities of virtualization. The issues cut across technology and politics and the cost savings from virtualized servers basically guarantee continued virtual machine (VM) adoption and sprawl. Perhaps the most colorful statement I heard was from a network engineer characterizing how [...]

After CEO Joel Trammell’s welcome address yesterday morning, Colonel Mike Mullane, a veteran NASA astronaut with several Space Shuttle missions under his belt, reminded us of the importance of “planning the work, and working the plan” and of the dire consequences of not doing that. Applying that principle to managing the network for application delivery [...]