In a recent Network World article, titled Top 5 Network Management Investments, Ann Bednarz makes a compelling case for how companies ought to prioritize their network performance management investments.
In the article, industry analyst Jim Frey of EMA points out that, “network managers in the past didn’t have to worry about rate of change. It’s a [...]
Most of us in business are familiar with the classic adage: “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” As IT becomes more deeply aligned with the business it supports, the ability to understand and measure key performance metrics around IT services has grown significantly in importance. Last week, Michael Biddick authored an article in [...]
With New Year come new resolutions, and an opportunity to take stock, examine your organization’s needs and explore new solutions.
Network World came out with an article called the “5 must-have IT Management technologies for 2010” that looks at some new solution categories that will help manage the ever increasing complexity in IT. Topping the list, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We all knew it was coming, and Amazon EC2 is taking baby steps today with the new Cloud Watch announcement. CPU load, Disk I/O rates, and Network I/O rates are your very bare minimum metrics for monitoring purposes, but it’s a start. As cloud providers and users both get more sophisticated, we’ll expect to see [...]
Just saw this while perusing Google News, Information Week reports an overall 5% decline in internet traffic Thu morning due to some Google issues. 5%? Wow, I mean I know they practically run the internet, but 5%?
Their VP of Ops explains that a “routing error had sent some of the company’s Web traffic to Asia, [...]
Network World reports there were 4 vendor announcements on 10 GbE solutions this week, from Brocade, Extreme Networks, 3Com and Force10 respectively. Demand is driven by application growth, massive virtualization deployments and hunger for more storage. In fact, the article claims that 10 GbE is expected to peak in 2009, as vendors readies for the [...]
On Network World today, the Robot Fight Club and this article on “The Internet Sky is Falling” has been dueling all morning for Most Read supremacy.
Although a lot of the reader comments derided the author for the alarmist tone of the article, I think some of its main points are valid. Just like that Brown [...]