by Russell Wilson Network performance management is complex; there are many factors that can impair the performance of applications running on large, far-flung corporate networks. Network engineers and administrators must understand how applications are performing from the end users’ perspective, the composition of traffic on their network, and the status and utilization of the many [...]

By Brian Boyko, Editor, Network Performance Daily Windows Vista has just come out for consumers but businesses have had access to Vista for two months now. And we’re wondering if it’s making an impact in IT environments. Sure, there are under the hood improvements like the reworked TCP/IP stack (which we’ve covered, twice.) There’s also [...]

By Nathan Bragaw Everyone’s heard from IT at some point: “I can’t recreate the problem, let me know if it happens again.” Network engineers have always had tools like packet sniffers, so they could go and put devices on the network, and begin capturing statistics about what’s going on in the network. But one of [...]