Daily Links: 100G Ethernet, Sharepoint Governance, Throttling YouTube and Blocking P2P

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Network Performance Daily: Perspectives on What’s Missing in the Field of Network Management
“You might think of a few companies as performance experts, when they might be troubleshooting experts. But, troubleshooting is very reactive. If you want to knock the wind out of the competition today, you have to be strategically proactive. That’s what’s missing right now in IT.”
Network World: How high can Ethernet go?
“So, who could possibly need pipes that move traffic at 100 billion bits per second?”
SharePoint Governance, Part 1
“Adoption of the SharePoint technologies can get out of control without proper governance. In this two-part article you’ll learn what governance is and learn about some of items that you should consider for a SharePoint technologies governance plan.”
CiscoBlog: Throttling Bandwidth for Certain Internet Sites
“For the sake of all that is sacred…save us from the bandwidth thieves! YouTube, Google Video, MySpace…and others. All of them are to thank for our latest level of Internet bandwidth saturation.” (via Mike Storm)
Mike Storm: Blocking Peer-to-Peer and Other Traffic of Interest
“I don’t even want it on my corporate network. It serves no business purpose, so why allow it. What am I talking about? Peer-to-peer file sharing applications and other traffic of interest that may sacrifice my security policy. Allowing P2P could very well be the fastest way to complete Network Death!”

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