By Brian Boyko Editor, Network Performance Daily Earlier today, Steve Jobs came out with his black turtleneck and started his keynote speech at the Mac Expo, one of the two major speeches Jobs gives each year about new products to announce, which is preceded by heavy speculation and guesswork and possibly lawsuits. This year, the [...]
Archive | January, 2008
Recreational Network Traffic Madness Calendar, 2008
Here on Network Performance Daily, we’ve documented the effects of recreational traffic on the network. We’ve shown you a 3D visualization of the Slashdot effect on your network, and even created a Del.icio.us directory of recreational network use articles devoted to the problems associated with sporadic bursts of unauthorized network use triggered by events such [...]
Get Your Network In Shape for 2008
We’re pleased to announce some of the winners of our Get Your Network in Shape for 2008 contest. The first winning New Years Resolution submission was: Change our network management environment from reactive to proactive. Stop using our customers as our monitoring tools, we should be informing them of problems and not the other way [...]
Network Performance and Gaming-As-A-Service: Why comparing Second Life to World of Warcraft shows that IT is here to stay.
Since yesterday’s Network Performance Daily post which criticized Nicholas Carr for a quote in Network World, I’ve finished reading The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google. Keep in mind, I agree with the main thrust of Carr’s arguments in The Big Switch and recommend it. The main thrust being that the software [...]
IT Department Dead? Hardly. Why Nicholas Carr is (mostly) wrong about SAAS.
EDITOR’S NOTE: I e-mailed Nicholas Carr about this post and he suggested that I pick up “The Big Switch” instead of relying on the Network World article, which he suggested might be a bit “sensationalistic.” I’ll swing by my local bookstore later tonight and see if they have it and will shortly go through it. [...]
The IPv6 agenda: What government delays mean for network engineering plans.
By Brian Boyko Editor, Network Performance Daily 2008. Leap year. Election year. Government deadline for IPv6. With the exception of the military, federal government agency CIOs are doing the bare minimum required by law to meet the mandate to move to the IPv6 network protocol by June, 2008. That bare minimum, according to this Network [...]
Network Management Challenges in Full-Throttle Russia: NetQoS Helps Moscow’s Top Organizations with Network Visibility
By Nathan Bragaw Business Development Manager, NetQoS NetQoS European Tech Rep. Peter Frame and I made a trip to Moscow last month to attend a network management event hosted by our new Russian partner, UNICORNS. I thought I’d share a few observations from that trip. First, the obvious: Russia is cold. I was born in [...]
Pragmatic Revolution: How to lower IT project failure rates by following through – or giving up.
I’m sure most of our readers can sympathize with the protagonist in this Daily WTF story, “Illicit Process Improvement.” (Indeed, it reminded me of quite a few scenarios from my mandatory high school “computer studies” courses.) Most people who have worked in the bowels of corporate IT departments can sympathize with the situation: Lowly but [...]
Happy New Year!
Wishing all of our readers a happy new year from NetQoS! (A quick tip for the new year – don’t worry too much about accidentally writing 2007 on your checks. 7 converts very easily into 8.)
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