At the UBS 37th annual Global Media and Communications Conference, Ralph de la Vega at AT&T mentioned that AT&T’s been having cellular data network problems because of heavy users – touting out the usual “80/20 rule” bandwidth hog rule (in this case, that 3% of users use 40% of the data) the company’s representative, Ralph [...]
Archive | December, 2009
Bada-
I have to admit I’m surprised – and amused – and a little frightened – (and maybe just a tiny little bit turned on) by news that Microsoft’s Bing search engine reached a 9.9% market share in October 2009 compared to Google’s 65.4%. That’s a huge slice of the search pie for a product that [...]
Matlock and Columbo
As you’ve no doubt heard, we’ve been acquired by CA, which, a few years ago, acquired Wily Technologies, which also has products in the field of “application performance management.” Earlier today, there was a meeting among us to discuss similarities and differences between CA|NetQoS’s approach and CA|Wily’s. And one of the things I noticed is [...]
Network Performance Daily’s Gift List
There are only 17 shopping days till Christmas, only two shopping days till Hannukah, and eight shopping days till Samuel L. Jackson’s birthday. Sure, it’s not a religious observance, but Jackson’s tired of monkey-fighting people forgetting his Monday-to-Friday birthday. So – what to get a geek? Here are some ideas – and some idea of [...]
Standardization and Innovation
Anandtech has an interesting article out about how it might be time to move forward on standardizing the x86 instruction set – both Intel and AMD have had proprietary instructions included in their CPUs. On the desktop, these proprietary instructions aren’t annoying – in the worst case scenario, a program would take advantage of a [...]
When Bandwidth Hogs Fly
We’ve mentioned a lot about data caps, and why they’re not effective methods for controlling congestion, though they’re often sold as such to unwitting consumers. And we’ve done the analysis that shows that the effective speed of a capped plan can be slower than uncapped dialup – at least, when you average it all out. [...]
Facing the Facebook.
Ann Bednarz’s latest article for Network World wasn’t that surprising in the broad sense – yes, social networks are popular at the workplace, yes, they take up a bunch of bandwidth – but I’m not sure it makes the case that it tries to. The key to the article is an analysis from managed security [...]
Application Consolidation
There are two articles in NetworkWorld today that caught my attention. The first article talks about Google Apps, and it’s inroads into enterprise environments as a replacement for Microsoft-based environments. And while it is growing – with an IDC survey saying that Google Docs is “widely used” in 20 percent of companies, there are issues [...]
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Visual Virtual
Brian Bakstran, VP of Product Marketing at our parent company, CA, recently blogged about a study from Network Instruments which talks about how 59% of IT organizations “lack the experience to manage virtualized environments effectively.” Combined with the idea that by 2012, 80% of all new servers will be virtual ones, and you start to [...]