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 [...]
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, [...]
It’s almost time to wave goodbye to 2009. It was an amazing year for ExtraHop. As for the broader world of IT, 2009 was packed with major news stories that will have significant impact, even years down the road. So here’s our recap list, for the biggest IT stories of 2009.
10. The Demise of Nortel [...]
Came across an interesting survey today on the state of the virtualization market. For the longest time, VMware has enjoy an ironclad lock in this space. That might be changing, according to a survey by a market research firm called TheInfoPro.
Full article here, I pulled out a few factoids that were worth highlighting:
- 75% of [...]
Networkworld/Infoworld published a list of 10 Emerging Enterprise Technologies of 2009. It’s a prediction list, which is always interesting to revisit in a few years. All of these technologies are in use, but most are not widely adopted, they were chosen because Infoworld believes in each technology’s potential for “enormous impact in the enterprise for [...]
So after the market closed yesterday, HP announced its acquisition of 3Com Corporation for $2.7 billion. This is obviously huge news in the networking industry, and a lot of experts have already voiced their opinions.
Majority of the industry watchers seem to agree that this acquisition is primarily for 3Com’s reach into the China market, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Forget the 2012 Mayan calendar apocalypse, IT has something more real to worry about that year. My co-worker Dave brought this to my attention: a Times Online article cites a Nemertes Research report that warns about the web reaching a critical point in terms of bandwidth. The hypothesis is that high-bandwidth content sites like Youtube [...]