June 16, 2007, Network World: “We’re telling IT executives to not support it because Apple has no intentions of supporting (iPhone use in) the enterprise,” Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney says. “This is basically a cellular iPod with some other capabilities and it’s important that it be recognized as such.” March 6, 2008, Network World: During [...]
Archive | March, 2008
WSJ: The wall between IT and everything else
The Wall Street Journal has a column by Amit Basu and Chip Jarnagin about how most companies are failing to recognize the potential of IT, and they list a number of reasons why. First, Basu and Jarnagin say, the business often sees IT as a basic utility, like plumbing or phone service. This is compounded [...]
Correction
Yesterday’s post, entitled: “A 50% increase in throughput from 10pm-11:30pm indicates the Dodgers went into overtime: Live TV on the net,” requires a correction. The Dodgers are a baseball team. In baseball, there is no “overtime” as baseball games are not timed. Instead, the appropriate term would be “Extra Innings.” Network Performance Daily regrets the [...]
A 50% increase in throughput from 10pm-11:30pm indicates the Dodgers went into overtime: Live TV on the net.
There is a site out there – I won’t tell you what it is but you can probably find it – that offers every just about every live sports game there is, whether or not the respective television networks have allowed it, whether or not the respective sports league have given express consent for rebroadcast, [...]
IT-Centric events to watch out for at BarCamp and SxSW in Austin
Today marks the official start of the South by Southwest (SxSW) Festival in Austin – for readers outside of Austin, SxSW is a combination film, music, and technology festival. Despite its increasing commercialism, the week-long traffic slogs, and the temporary 50 percent increase in man-purse slinging hipsters, SXSW is the premier forum for new music [...]
Zero Comprehension: Cisco Edge Quest – a review of Cisco’s WAN-Edge marketing minigame.
by Brian “Scrabble” Boyko Editor, Network Performance Daily When a company like Cisco goes into “new media marketing,” it doesn’t mess around. To promote the Cisco ASR 1000 WAN-edge router, it started a Facebook Group, a Second Life Site, and a slew of holiday mascot viral videos. But that’s not the big one. It won’t [...]
Melancholatency.
Network World recently posted some industry commentary by Frank Dzubeck which talks about how CIOs are starting to become more concerned with application performance and the inter-process latency – i.e., concerns over “chatty apps.” When you consider additional need for real-time application – the most notable of which is VoIP, but which can reach to [...]
Game On: Futurist thoughts on latency, communication, and video games as business tools.
Today primary election and caucus day in Texas, where we’re based. Usually our elections don’t really matter, so this is somewhat of an exciting time for the state. Politics is on my mind… and when politics is on my mind, I find it hard to think about anything else. (This is annoying when you’re trying [...]
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In keeping with the Twitter theme, this post is only 140 characters.
Twtr has scale probs. At SXSW, twtr netperf Cook said SXSW wifi , but 30 twtr srvrs not enuf. http://tiny.cc/UEbhb Okay, that’s borderline incomprehensible. We won’t be doing that again. As the Macworld article linked above shows, there was a problem at SXSW with people sending and receiving twitter messages. Twitter founder Blaine Cook claimed [...]