Back in September 2007, we wrote an article on Adblock Plus, an extension for Firefox that blocks advertisements from loading on Web pages. It was one of our hits. It came after some controversy about a Web developer blocking Firefox because of what he perceived were problems with Ad-block… robbing him of his revenue. But [...]
Archive | February, 2009
2009: The Year Video-over-IP, Flying Cars take off.
Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick at Network World recently talked to the CEO of VBrick systems, which sells video over IP appliances – and suggested that corporate networks should be engineered for video first and data second. More importantly, he suggested that companies will start to engineer for video first and data second this year [...]
Denny’s Website Gets Grand Slammed.
A quick note – last Sunday, there was some sort of football game. And everyone watched it. So people paid a lot of money to run commercials. Which a lot of people watched. For example, Denny’s offered a free Grand Slam breakfast in their SuperBowl commercial. Which would have been great. Except that the traffic [...]
Power to the IP-eople.
Cisco announced Cisco EnergyWise at Networkers Barcelona; a software upgrade that allows users of Cisco Catalyst routers to control the energy consumption of pretty much anything that has an IP address. According to the promotional literature and video, you can limit power based on schedules, while allowing exceptions – for example, if a particular employee [...]
Fight on, my mosquito friends! For Microsoft!
The headline read: “Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes on Crowd.” I blinked, rubbed my eyes, and read it again. The headline still read: “Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes on Crowd.” It wasn’t the Onion. This was too weird to be the Onion. Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, and [...]
1 = Alive, 0 = Dead. (or: Take 10 aspirin and call me in the morning.)
Shamus McGillicuddy, not to be confused with the McGillicuddy Serious Party of New Zealand, recently wrote at Searchnetworking.com about Don Lester, a senior network engineer with Wenatchee Valley Medical Center in Wenatchee, Washington. Lester used the application response time and network traffic analysis modules of the NetQoS Performance Center to diagnose problems with performance of [...]
Unified Communication and the Bouncing Grey Lady
We just announced that NetQoS Unified Communication Monitor works with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 [OCS 07 R2] this morning, and while it’s easy to get into the small details of how unified communications applications place great demands on the network, and how to handle those demands, I found myself pausing for a [...]
NetQoS at Cisco Networkers, Barcelona
We’ve talked about Cisco Networkers in Barcelona earlier, but we thought you might be interested in seeing some of the video we brought back with us. Okay, it’s mostly Ben Erwin and everybody clowning around a bit – but they’re clowning around in Spain, which makes it so much more sophisticated!
- The Paradigm Shift: Software Defined Networks, Software Driven Networks and OpenFlow
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Bringing Innovation Back to IT
- Rolling Out a New App? How to Avoid 3 Performance Pitfalls
- More Tech Jobs Coming to a City Near You?
- Invest in End-User Education, Save Time and Money
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Supporting Bike To Work Day
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Analyst: APM a Must-Have for the Cloud
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Is Your Network Ready for the Video Deluge?
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IT is the Best of Times and the Worst of Times
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Letting You In On The Best Kept Technology Secret
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Ann Bednarz: You're a dork, but it made me laugh. Wish we coul...
- Cloud Impairs App Troubleshooting, survey says | Service Assurance Daily: [...] The poll conducted by Network Instruments (a...
- APM is King in 2012 | Service Assurance Daily: [...] results of this survey reflect a recent IDG ...
- Bringing Innovation Back to IT | Service Assurance Daily | InovaTrail | Scoop.it: [...] background-position: 50% 0px ; background-co...
- Bringing Innovation Back to IT | Service Assurance Daily: [...] than driving innovative projects. Add to tha...
Quis slashdotiet ipsos slashdotes? (Who Slashdots Slashdot?)
Websites tend to have a love-hate relationship with Slashdot.org. A link on Slashdot can send a world of traffic to your doorstep. It can also send so much traffic to your doorstep that your servers melt into piles of tapioca pudding. It is with a sense of irony that Slashdot slashdotted itself. Uriah Welcome, Sourceforge’s [...]