Network Observations
Monitoring the trends in network and application performance
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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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Network Management Links 2008-07-24
VPNs: Six Burning Questions - VPNs are established and essential tools for corporate communications, but they also come with many questions. Which type of VPN should you be using? Should you build your own? Heres a look at key questions and answers to help you make decisions about which VPN technolo …
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Cloud Computing Pros and Cons
I initially wanted to title the post Getting your head around the cloud, as I have had a difficult time figuring out cloud computing. Then I realized I wasnt alone. Wikipedias discussion of the term trails on forever and Gartner recently produced a paper on How to Identify Cloud Computing (ID#G00158 …
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Top 10 VoIP Management Tips
VoIP’s extreme sensitivity to delay and packet loss compared to other network applications such as web and e-mail services can be a real management challenge for your network team. A basic understanding of VoIP traffic and of the quality metrics provided by VoIP monitoring tools will help keep your …
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Web 2.0 Applications Require Security Rethink
A small impact security hole in a Facebook design that released the members birthdates to the public during a test run reminded me how weve entered a different age with the Internet. Im surprised by the amount of personal information people leave on these sites. If theyre willing to leave personal i …
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Social Networking Banned by 25% of Businesses
Challenger, Gray, & Christmas, the folks best known for their annual March Madness productivity-loss projections, published a study today detailing business policies on social networking sites. With social networking apps becoming so predominant in the mainstream, Im always curious whether busi …
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Network Managment Links for 2008-07-15
Common Compression Technique Opens VoIP to Attack - With security being an issue that can easily be overlooked when deploying VoIP, this article in InfoWorld will hopefully open some eyes. New research suggests standard encryption and compression methods are not sufficiently secure and can make Inte …
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What is an Instance?
If youve ever spent time at a Network Instruments training seminar, youre bound to hear the word instance. In the Network Instruments / Observer universe an instance is much like the force, it surrounds us and binds us. So, what is an instance uses instances to capture network data. In some cases yo …
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ZoneAlarm Conflict Fixed
Check Point issued a fix today to resolve the conflict its ZoneAlarm products were having with the latest Microsoft update. According to Robert Vamosi of CNet: Check Point Software Technologies released updated versions of all its ZoneAlarm products, addressing an incompatibility with a patch Micros …
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