Archive | November, 2007

Everything is an abstraction

Since the days of the Apple Lisa, computers have been talking in metaphors – windows, desktops, trash cans, folders, even files. We refer to network connections as “pipes.” Everything in computers is an abstraction of an abstraction. Just compare a high-level programming language to assembly language. Now we have virtualization – and with it a [...]

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Network Performance Links: Hu, Obama, Reiser? I hardly knew’er!

IT World: Defense comes to forefront at China’s Communist Party Congress. Woo! Party! Oh, wait, not that type of party… However, Hu was specific in his references to one area of IT guaranteed to raise eyebrows outside the country: defense. “We must build strong armed forces through science and technology. To attain the strategic objective [...]

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HTTP’s Ascendancy – The Social Media Tipping Point.

By Joel Trammell, CEO, NetQoS. Earlier this blog did a column on HTTP traffic outshining P2P traffic – showing an increased demand in streaming media via YouTube and similar sites. I think this trend signifies that sites are responding to – and figuring out the answer to – customer demand for media that was once [...]

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Día de los Muertos Network Performance Links: Childhood Trauma 2.0, and Open Social for Introverts

Information Week: Growing Pains – Can Web 2.0 Evolve into an Enterprise Technology? Forget outsourcing. The real threat to IT pros could be Web 2.0. While there’s a lot of hype and hubris surrounding wikis, mashups, and social networking, there’s also a lot of real innovation–much of it coming from increasingly tech-savvy business users, not [...]

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