I got some good news today. Hulu.com is putting the first season of my favorite TV show, ever, “The Mole,” online. (Seriously. Watch it. It’s good.) There is no doubt that video on the Internet has left the realm of novelty and has entered the mainstream; many people watch as much or more “tv” delivered [...]

A quick summary of theAberdeen Group Benchmark report, “Getting IT on the C-Level’s Agenda,”: It ain’t. Well, it’s not on the agenda of most companies and Ann Bednarz at Network World explains how bad the situation is – despite years of hammering home the importance of identifying problems before users are effected, 61% of the [...]

For a politics junkie and a technology junkie like myself, the EU Elections produced results that were really, really interesting to watch. First off, how about the wacky U.K.? Labour, which currently is the dominant party in the U.K. Parliament, wins only 15.7% of the vote – a third place finish behind the Conservatives and [...]

On Tuesday of next week, Microsoft plans to unleash a large patch – the largest “Patch Tuesday” in eight months. If you update your desktop systems individually, you might want to prepare for that traffic. In many ways, the smaller size of patches seemed, at the very least, to imply that the codebase behind the [...]

GM and Chrysler, combined, will be closing about 3000 dealerships across the U.S., leaving many out of work, and hurting local economies across the country. On the bright side, however, this is a strange opportunity for networking companies. See, car dealerships and the car companies they franchised with, were some of the earliest adopters of [...]

Two days ago, General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That same day, GM was delisted from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It’s replacement – a company we’re all familiar with – Cisco.  “Cisco makes the paving bricks for the information superhighway and it’s affecting the culture in kind of the same way that automobiles [...]

The Engineer of Love is the original Internet romance reality series that offers one lucky engineer, Ben Erwin, and several lucky enterprise network monitoring suites the unique opportunity to find true love. The lucky Engineer will get to know a group of network suites via a series of trial installations and exotic, romantic dates — [...]

The Alberta SuperNet, a state-of-the-art IP network that connects 429 communities in the province of Alberta and provides direct broadband connectivity to more than 4,400 government, learning, health, library and municipal facilities as well as private businesses and Alpha Flight Secret Headquarters. Axia NetMedia corporation, which runs the Alberta SuperNet, had deployed NetQoS® NetVoyant for [...]