Reprinted from TheDailyWTF.com: At my company, there’s a bit of a wall between Application Development and Network Operations. All “network and network-service related issues” must be reported through the porthole, a.k.a. Helpdesk. Quite often, this leads to interesting results. “Helpdesk, Jerry speaking.” “Hey Jerry,” I said, “this is Paul over in app dev. Our TerraTrade [...]
Archive | September, 2008
ITF: Information Technology and Facilities – ruining our best “IT crowd” puns.
We talk about greening IT through using network monitoring to better enable server and datacenter consolidation and encouraging virtualization by being able to ensure that applications delivered from an virtual server provide similar performance as applications delivered from a native server. Fewer servers running in fewer far-flung places equals a greener company – and the [...]
Without network visibility, everything gets blamed on the dog
We mentioned previously that Comcast was moving towards capping its residential customers at 250GB a month of Internet data. We also mentioned, repeatedly, that bandwidth caps really don’t solve the problems of network congestion or of poor latency, but if you’re going to go for a data cap, 250GB/mo seems a reasonably fair rate. Silicon [...]
Whiteboard Series – Ben Erwin talks about Passive Monitoring vs. Active Monitoring
Behind the cut, we have a higher-quality version of this movie through Blip.TV.
Network Performance Links, September 5, 2008
NetQoS Google Community/Forum One of the things that we’re trying to do at NetQoS is to get more dialogue and exchange within the customer community. Network performance monitoring is complex and engineers are coming up with wonderful ideas using our products and other vendors’ products as well. Ideas too good not to share. We’ve set [...]
IT Unionization and network performance
Infoworld has a story up by Dan Tynan asking, “Should IT form a union?” Because so many of the problems that IT faces today are similar to problems in manufacturing back in the turn of the century, the idea of unionizing IT workers in an attempt to curb outsourcing, bring more reasonable hours to the [...]
First New York, then Europe, then the world!
Over the first six months of 2008, our sales in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa were 160 percent greater than the first six months of 2007. We’ve have 29 consecutive quarters of double-digit year-over-year growth. We were invited to speak at the Kaufman Bros. Investment conference being held today and tomorrow in New York [...]
Google Chrome and Network Performance – it’s bigger than you think.
When Google Chrome was released, our genuine reaction around the office was something like this: Okay, so the last thing the world needs is yet another browser. Between IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Flock, Konqueror, Epiphany, Camino, Galeon, SeaMonkey, OmniWeb, and, of course, Wii Internet Channel, Web applications developers already have their hands full. However, if [...]
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Editorial: Symphony Of Destruction – Have we lost a network engineering culture?
by Brian Boyko Editor, Network Performance Daily I remember my first computer. I remember deleting files to save space on it – files like “config.sys” and “autoexec.bat.” I remember my second computer. I remember forcing a RAM chip in too hard and breaking off a piece of the slot. I remember my third computer. I [...]