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Network Observations
Monitoring the trends in network and application performance
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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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SecurityDudes 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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Low Cost Enterprise Storage? Yes!
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 have been building RAID arrays ...
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This Week In Network Management
Its been an exciting news week with the reported end of the Internet in less than 900 days to a look at Big Birds IT workshop. Virtualization Shrank Sesame Street - The folks at Sesame Workshop were looking at a $3 million data-center expansion to keep up with its Web, multimedia and data storage ...
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iPhone VPN Bully
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. I just receive Field Notice FN - 63146 - ...
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Terabit Power - Meet the Nexus 7000
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 a previous posting Imagining Terabit N ...
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Optimized Application Performance is in the Eye of the Beholder
NetworkWorlds Denise Dubie began her discussion on application performance with, Like beauty is in the eye of the beholder, optimal application performance is in the experience of the end user. Its a subjective matter that can bewilder network managers trying to ensure every app performs as its end ...
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Stormy Reception for Cloud Computing
So while ATT jumped into the ever-crowding fray of companies offering cloud computing services, we had arguably our first cloud computing IPO take place this week. It was interesting to see the results. Rackspace (RAX) had initially discussed pricing their IPO at $16, but then settled for $12.50. Ne ...
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Cyber Forensics: iPhone Under Investigation
Crimes and unauthorized acts committed in the workplace seem to increasingly leave evidence trails in the physical and cyber worlds. Physical offenses from office bullying and harassment to clear computer crimes such as data theft cause the lines to blur between physical and computer investigations. ...
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iPhone 3G Woes
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. The user experience of the much-hyped and ...
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Network Management Links 2008-08-04
How Cloud Computing Is Changing the World - BusinessWeek offers an interesting article on the growth of cloud computing including an interesting view on how some vendors are dealing with healthcare and finanical service regulations. The article is a part of a special report that dives deep into the ...
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A New Vista Dawning?
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. I have been a pretty vocal critic of the ...
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The Death of Internet Explorer?
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. If you read my previous post Faster Firef ...
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Is 10 Gigabit Upgrade Necessary
As you roll out network-driven applications that rely on a steady bandwidth stream, you might feel the urge to upgrade your network capacity. Whether moving from 10/100 Mbps to 1 Gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet, a network analyzer can play a central role in evaluating whether you need to upgrade you ...
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