Network Observations
Monitoring the trends in network and application performance
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Network Economics 101: ROI of Monitoring
So, when you think back to what first attracted you to networks, it probably wasnt the ability to complete long financial calculations. But, with the pressure from business managers and accounting to justify every cent spent in IT, thats exactly what the job has become. The question: How do you cal …
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The Reach of Virtualization
So, earlier this month I spoke about how many organizations have adopted virtualization. Turns out three-quarters of companies have some form of virtualization on their network. But, that left the question of whether this was a serious virtualization deployment or were they playing with the technolo …
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Outrage: Citigroup Abuse of TARP Funds
SecurityDude, CISSP-ISSAP is an IT consultant, Security & Privacy Advocate and blogger at large with over 20 years IT experience. SecurityDude shares tips, tricks, and info that the average networking professional will find interesting and indispensable. In the last two months, I have received t …
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Interop & The IT Economy Follow Up
With the global economy in the tank and a 24 hour news cycle in hyperdrive, how much of what we are going through is real versus hype? If you look at antecdotely whats coming out of Interop, while things are not tremendous they also arent that bad. Rachel Wembley is a good set of outside eyes lookin …
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Interop IT Economy Steady as She Goes
So over the last two days at Interop, we have been polling people as they came into our booth. Given the interesting economic times we live in, I was curious to find out the economys effect on IT budgets and department growth or lack thereof. While the news isnt great, its not bad either. Heres wha …
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Virtualization, how hot is it?
With the constant chatter surrounding virtualization, I often feel like an audience member at the Tonight Show back in the days of Carson. Johnny is up there saying Virtualization is hot! And, we all can chime in with, How hot is it? With this mornings release of Network Instruments State of the Net …
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Detecting the Downadup / Conflicker Threat
The Downadup worm—also called Conflicker—has now infected an estimated 10 million PCs worldwide, and security experts say they expect to see a dangerous second-stage payload dropped soon, according to NetworkWorld. Although most of you are surely aware of the worm, how do you go about detecting infe …
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Destination: Performance Tour
With bags packed and ready, were about to embark on a 10-city North American troubleshooting tour. The tour, Destination: Performance, will introduce network professionals to the latest troubleshooting trends and techniques including: Application performance monitoring VoIP and Unified Communicatio …
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Remove Ads From Windows Live Messenger
SecurityDude, CISSP-ISSAP is an IT consultant, Security & Privacy Advocate and blogger at large with over 20 years IT experience. SecurityDude shares tips, tricks, and info that the average networking professional will find interesting and indispensable. Even before I began specializing in Netw …
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Handling Server Builds From Hell
SecurityDude, CISSP-ISSAP is an IT consultant, Security & Privacy Advocate and blogger at large with over 20 years IT experience. SecurityDude shares tips, tricks, and info that the average networking professional will find interesting and indispensable. Although I generally don’t build my own s …
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Network Management Links 2008-12-10
Internet in Iraq: Imagine setting up and managing network systems in the middle of Iraq. Jeremy Stretch provides interesting details on maintaining a website from a forward operating base in the middle of the Iraqi desert. Network Protocols and Standards: When it comes to understanding and tackling …
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Attempted Robbery at Nissan Dealer!
SecurityDude, CISSP-ISSAP is an IT consultant, Security & Privacy Advocate and blogger at large with over 20 years IT experience. SecurityDude shares tips, tricks, and info that the average networking professional will find interesting and indispensable. Those of us in IT work hard, really hard. …
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International Power Options for Biz Travelers
SecurityDude, CISSP-ISSAP is an IT consultant, Security & Privacy Advocate and blogger at large with over 20 years IT experience. SecurityDude shares tips, tricks, and info that the average networking professional will find interesting and indispensable. Over the last year, I have written quite …
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SecurityDude’s Greatest Hits - Year 1
SecurityDude, CISSP-ISSAP is an IT consultant, Security & Privacy Advocate and blogger at large with over 20 years IT experience. SecurityDude shares tips, tricks, and info that the average networking professional will find interesting and indispensable. Its hard to believe, but it has been more …
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TSA: Saving The World, One Tube of Toothpaste at a Time…
SecurityDude, CISSP-ISSAP is an IT consultant, Security & Privacy Advocate and blogger at large with over 20 years IT experience. SecurityDude shares tips, tricks, and info that the average networking professional will find interesting and indispensable. Ah, the TSA (Transport Slowness Agency). …
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NetFlow Special Report: Network Visibility Without Breaking the Bank
So we were on a call with a networking reporter, when our president asked if he was familiar with NetFlow. The reporter responded that he wasnt, and at the end of the call we were all surprised how someone covering this space couldnt be familiar with NetFlow. If youre not familiar with NetFlow, this …
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Network Management Links 2008-09-23
Deploying Wireless in Iraq - And, you think your job is toughheres a case of Babylon Telecommunications rolling out wireless over 25-square kilometers of Joint Base Balad (Camp Anaconda) in Iraq. There are a lot of takeaways in this article regarding wireless deployments. IT Spending Up in 2009 - Gi …
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Storage Virtualization Solution
SecurityDude, CISSP-ISSAP is an IT consultant, Security & Privacy Advocate and blogger at large with over 20 years IT experience. SecurityDude shares tips, tricks, and info that the average networking professional will find interesting and indispensable. It is very likely that in the last 10 yea …
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Network Management Links 2008-08-27
Who provides what in the cloud - Many tech companies promise cloud offerings. But theyre not all the same. Take a look at what services theyre really providing and how to best evaluate them? 802.11n booms on college campuses - Universities are leading the way with 802.11n adoption. Universities ar …
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Unreal Network Recording Needs
If I had to identify the greatest change in network troubleshooting tools over the last three years, I would point to back-in-time troubleshooting or what many call retrospective network analysis (RNA). The amazing thing isnt the number of companies troubleshooting with RNA, rather its the increased …
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