PUBLIC MARKS from tacodog77 with tag "network management"

"You might think of a few companies as performance experts, when they might be troubleshooting experts. But, troubleshooting is very reactive. If you want to knock the wind out of the competition today, you have to be strategically proactive. That’s what’s missing right now in IT."

Gaming programmers are performance-oriented to the extreme, because if you release a game and it’s slow, no one is going to use it no matter how cool it is or how many features it has. Other programmers often code first for functionality, and at the end of the cycle, start to worry about performance issues. Game programmers need optimized performance from the get-go. This means game programmers are willing to forgo certain things. For example, the enterprise side of the software world was very quick to move to Java when it first came out, but the game programmers didn’t.

NetQoS has opened a 5,000 square foot office in Durham, N.C., to advance the company’s network and application performance technologies.

"ZipTie software is a framework for network inventory management that provides a vendor-independent approach for maintaining a reliable and consistent inventory of network configurations....Why the name ZipTie? Because ZipTie’s allow you to organize your network cables and Z’s are cool."

The Dreamhost guys followed Cisco’s doc on upgrading their router power supplies and soon found themselves in a spiral of upgrades that lead to them purchasing a ton of equipment in order to overcompensate for network issues. Unfortunately, this is the common set of plays that we see every network hardware vendor run. You run into a problem, deploy the expert swat team ($$$). If that doesn’t work throw a ton of hardware at the problem and hope it goes away. Both these plays only benefit the hardware vendor.

"Okay, we’ll admit that “hate” is a strong word. But if you’re a network administrator, VoIP can inspire panic as its status as a potentially unbearable security risk. Regardless of where you fall, VoIP is here for awhile, and it’s stimulating some heated and excited debate."