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When L3 Stats Just Aren’t Enough

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

At ExtraHop, we sometimes talk about L2 and L3 statistics as “table stakes”. For a network and application management solution, you need to have visibility into those layers. But by and large, they are just not enough to solve some of the more complex problems in today’s environments.
Case in point. We were doing a pilot [...]

Fix Application Problems 200% Faster Than Your Competition

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

When it comes to network and application management, the performance gap between average and best-in-class companies is staggering. How well does your company perform, and what best practices can you adopt from leaders in IT?
According to the latest Aberdeen Report: Best-in-class companies are twice as likely to resolve application and network issues before impacting users [...]

Gmail Snafu – Blame it on Capacity Planning?

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

I was one of the millions affected by the prolonged Gmail Outage yesterday. That was a very frustrating 100 minutes indeed. Since Gmail does such a good job of storing and searching for random information, I keep a lot of stuff in there, with the expectation that when I need to dig up something (airline [...]