What’s the state of your network?

By on August 20, 2010 in Uncategorized

Participate in Network Instruments survey to share details about your network and your IT management strategy.

Ever wonder if what you’re doing with technology stacks up to your peers? Or are you curious about the latest technology advancements and how they might impact your network? Network Instruments hopes to answer these questions with its fourth annual State of the Network Survey.

The vendor’s 2009 survey revealed that three-quarters of the more than 440 IT professionals polled had implemented virtualization, but the same percentage noted they lacked adequate tools, visibility and information to troubleshoot problems. The economy played a big role in the survey as well with 73% of respondents reporting that they were being asked to do more with less. Yet nearly two-thirds of IT staffs had not experienced layoffs.

This year’s survey, according to Network Instruments, will ask participants’ priorities in 2010. It will cover technology areas such as cloud computing, videoconferencing and telepresence, virtualization and managing application performance. Those who participate will have a one in ten chance of winning a protocol poster (pictured here) from Network Instruments.

Network Instruments Protocol Poster

The survey focuses on the challenges network managers in particular face when taking on new technologies. For instance, it will inquire what types of network challenges and benefits can be gained by migrating some services to cloud computing. In terms of telepresence, Network Instruments is hoping to learn how videoconferencing delivery will challenge existing network management practices. And as always, Network Instruments will focus on the challenges of application performance monitoring and management.

Survey organizers say all responses to the survey will be kept completely confidential and some of the anonymous results could be shared in a Service Assurance Daily blog post. To take the survey, click here.

What network management challenges have you encountered this year? Which technologies will you adopt and how will network management evolve to control them in your environment? Please leave a comment here or let me know directly via e-mail at Denise.Dubie@ca.com.

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About Denise Dubie

Denise Dubie is New Media Principal in CA Technologies Thought Leadership Group. Prior to joining CA in 2010, Dubie spent 12 years of her career at Network World, an IDG company, covering the IT management industry and all its players (including CA and competitors) as well as high-tech careers and vendors such as Cisco, HP, IBM and Microsoft. As Senior Editor at Network World, Dubie also authored the publication's twice-weekly Network and Systems Management Alert newsletter and contributed to the Web site's Microsoft Subnet blog. Before IDG, she served as Assistant Managing Editor at Application Development Trends, managing writers and the monthly publication's production process. Dubie started her professional journalism career as a Staff Writer/Reporter at The Transcript, a small daily paper in Western Massachusetts. Dubie holds a B.A. degree in English Literature, with minors in journalism and political science, from Boston University.
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