Here’s a shout-out to our friends at Oyster Hotel Reviews, their site launched today. Congratz guys! Looks slick, professional writers, lots of independent reviews, and great use of fisheye photography.
Shamus does it again! Great article on the changing requirments for those considering a career in network engineering. Best quote was from Chris Silva, a Forrester research analyst – “For the network engineer, it’s no longer, ‘I opened up port-whatever for your application. It’s having visibility into the network, whether through doing custom development of [...]
This story on Network World is just bizarre enough that I have to mention it. I think it’s the blade servers in a cardboard box and getaway car imagery that got to me.
Of course, for any enterprise shop this would never happen, as there would be redundant sites and systems in place for an event [...]
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Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) are critical control points in your application environment. Unfortunately they are complex, difficult to manage, and mis-configurations can often hurt the performance of your mission-critical [...]
Shamus McGillicuddy, Sr. News Editor from Search Networking had a great article out today, on ExtraHop and the ongoing “Network Performance Management Evolution”. With great quotes from our favorite EMA analyst, Jim Frey, the article dives into the new trend of network teams working together with other IT disciplines to speed up troubleshooting. Jim says: [...]
Any monitoring/systems management product need to have built-in alerting capabilities. Too bad most of them aren’t very useful. The tricky thing is knowing what thresholds to set. The truth of the matter is, you are monitoring so many different things in any application environment, it’s onerous to set up and configure alerts, and it’s almsot [...]
A Cisco research presented some interesting data today, predicting a Global IP traffic surge fueled by Video. By 2013, annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a zettabyte (or 667 exabytes). (A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes.) Somehow I just love that word – zettabyte.
What does this mean for service provider capacity management? I [...]
It’s always fun and interesting to get a change of pace.
Here at ExtraHop, we do a lot of sales meetings. Most of them follow the same formula, we go through a presentation deck, a demo, handle questions, and so on. Well this week brought us a meeting that broke the mold: 5 minutes into it, [...]
In my routine Monday morning Google News search for ExtraHop today, I found this little Gem.
Under the section that starts with: “Here is a small summary of the most interesting developments:”
Extrahop est une startup spécialisée dans la gestion des performances réseau conduite par des ingénieurs qui ont travaillé sur la solution BigIP de F5. Leur [...]