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The Management Impact of Virtualization

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

As Raja stated in his New Year Resolution for Network Engineers post, Virtualization is the new hotness (for very valid reasons), but with it comes new challenges. The interaction of the virtualization and network layers tend to create new classes of problems that manifest in obscure and hard to track ways. More and more IT [...]

Metric of the Day: Retransmission Timeouts (RTOs)

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

The ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system captures a lot of metrics, and much of it can be daunting since not everyone can be a network expert like Raja. So I’m kicking off this new series to talk about some of the more interesting metrics, what they mean, why is it important, and an example or [...]