ComputerWorld: How to use network dashboards effectively Data Center Central: The Drive to Improve the Data Center Business Standard: Cisco plans big for SMBs Network World: IP address management takes a back seat – at a cost More below the fold…
Archive | October, 2006
Network Performance Daily Links 2006-10-19
ZDNET/George Ou: Surge of killer device drivers leave no OS safe IBM developerWorks/Blogs: Solve problems with Blue Gene/Secure System i InformationWeek White Papers: Evaluating Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) as an Enabler to Improved Service Management Alec Saunders .LOG: T@lkster: A New Voice 2.0 Company Simply Relevant: Voice 2.0: A Manifesto for the Future More below [...]
Three Big Trends Affecting Network and Application Performance
Way back in 1995, Network World used the economic metaphor of inflation to report The Cost of Network Complexity. While 1995 might be considered the Paleozoic era of networking — Windows NT was barely two years old — and the technologies have since rapidly evolved, still the inflation metaphor holds up today. “The cause of [...]
Network Performance Daily Links 2006-10-18
eWeek: Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost? BusinessWeek: Big Media Gets a Second Life tecosystems: IBM Defines a New Application Category IBM: IBM Information Server Nemertes Research: Want to safeguard your data? Give it to strangers! Data Center Central: Combining Storage Virtualization and ILM 365questions.org: The Art of 404 pages silicon.com: We love WLAN, say [...]
A waste of $100B
According to Neal Weinberg at Network World magazine, Gartner analysts Mark Fabbi and Bob Hafner argued that IT and network engineering departments will “waste an estimated $100 billion over the next three years by overspending on network products and services.” He [Fabbi] expanded on that premise this week to argue that network execs should only [...]
Network Performance Daily Links 2006-10-17
Network World: Network management changing the course for ‘framework’ vendors T Week: Change management key to IT success silicon.com: We love WLAN, say consumers Computerworld: Email servers will choke, says Spamhaus Dossy’s Blog: Greylisting, another battle in the “war on spam” VoIP Watch: Me and My Mylo Torrentfreak: P2P Speeds Cut in Half by Australian [...]
“Most of the Time” Deserves Most of the Attention
Over the last several years IT organizations worldwide have spent billions of dollars implementing fault management tools and processes to maximize network availability. And now thanks to these investments and more reliable technologies, most enterprise and service provider networks operate with 99.9 percent uptime or better. So why do many IT organizations continue to focus [...]
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Bringing Innovation Back to IT
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Supporting Bike To Work Day
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Analyst: APM a Must-Have for the Cloud
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Is Your Network Ready for the Video Deluge?
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IT is the Best of Times and the Worst of Times
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Letting You In On The Best Kept Technology Secret
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Ann Bednarz: You're a dork, but it made me laugh. Wish we coul...
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Three More Trends Affecting Network and Application Performance
In a previous post we wrote about network engineers and their ability to go days without sleep. There was no one transformative event that gave network engineers this super power. Network engineers simply adapted over time to shrinking budgets and smaller staffs, plus the big trends we discussed previously–data center consolidation, the increased number of [...]