Archive | November, 2008

Just a Flag in the Database – Why Networks Fail (to Perform)

By on November 10, 2008 in Ask the Service Assurance Expert

Part 3 of a series adapted from Joel Trammell’s Keynote Speech at NetQoS Symposium 2008 My favorite story for a changed application: A network team was fighting with a thorny application performance issue for a long time and they saw the application had changed its bandwidth usage by an order of magnitude overnight. They went [...]

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Performance Edge Journal – Volume 3

By on November 7, 2008 in Uncategorized

The third edition of Performance Edge Journal has just been posted for download (some registration required). The publication is edited by Network Performance Daily’s Brian Boyko and is devoted to the diverse networking and application delivery responsibilities that today’s network professionals must tackle. In this edition, industry expert Dr. Jim Metzler contributes recent research, presenting [...]

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Surprise! Application! – Why Networks Fail (to Perform)

By on November 6, 2008 in Ask the Service Assurance Expert

Part 2 of a series adapted from Joel Trammell’s Keynote Speech at NetQoS Symposium 2008 How many folks out here have uncovered a new application on your network because you received a trouble ticket on that application, and that’s the first you know that that application existed on your infrastructure. It’s a common problem, right? [...]

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Links: ITIL, America, Dolly Parton and the FCC

By on November 5, 2008 in Uncategorized

Contributed by Patrick Ancipink While our regular blogger, Brian Boyko, is away for a little bit, I trolled through the non-election news today to find some interesting tidbits for Network Performance Daily readers. It’s a topsy-turvy world: ITIL more popular in US than Europe? As reported by Denise Dubie in Network World, a recent IDC [...]

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Why Networks Fail (to Perform) – And Why the Role of the Network Engineer is Secure – Introduction

By on November 4, 2008 in Ask the Service Assurance Expert

Adapted from Joel Trammell’s Symposium 2008 Speech The mental model of a network for most people, even a lot of people in IT, is very simple: Build the application, and roll it out to the client boxes, through the WAN cloud, via the server. That’s the view of the world. Reality looks a lot more [...]

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