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Outrage: Verizon Wireless wants to sell your personally identifiable data: here's how you can stop this

  Last week, it was revealed that Verizon Wireless is mailing a notice advising wireless subscribers that if they fail to Opt Out within 30 days, Verizon will begin SELLING their Customer Proprietary Network Information CPNI to "third parties and affiliates". CPNI information includes...

Tags: FCC Commissioner, FCC, Chairman, Verizon Communications Inc., Network Instruments, Verizon Wireless, Customer Proprietary Network Information Information, Federal Government, E-mail, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Government, Online Communications, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Retrospective Network Analysis

While network complexity and bandwidth demands continue to increase, applications such as VoIP increase performance requirements. Now more than ever, network adminsitrators require versatile monitoring and analysis tools to quickly troubleshoot business-critical operations and monitor security and compliance.

Tags: Network, Network Instruments, Analysis, Networking

White papers 2007-05-01

Extending Network Visibility by Leveraging NetFlow and sFlow Technologies

NetFlow and sFlow® are traffic reporting mechanisms that manufacturers have embedded into enterprise-level switches and routers. This paper describes the strengths and limitations of these technologies, and why combining NetFlow/sFlow reporting mechanisms with a distributed network analyzer is a best practice in network monitoring. Deploying a distributed analyzer that can...

Tags: Network, Distributed Network, Network Instruments, Networking

White papers 2006-06-20

Monitoring and Managing Network Application Performance

Ensuring timely access to business-critical application servers is what justifies having a network and an IT staff in the first place. To effectively manage application performance means measuring how well key components of the IT infrastructure are performing over time, and identifying and efficiently correcting deficiencies before they affect your...

Tags: Performance, Network, Information Technology, Monitoring, Network Instruments, Strategy, Networking, Management

White papers 2006-04-26

SOX and IT

IT has been designated as a key role player in SOX compliance. Although it may take considerable effort to coordinate management philosophies and implement an organized and acceptable set of standards, SOX compliance can ultimately enhance business functions-not just please the SEC.

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Information Technology, Network Instruments, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

White papers 2006-04-26

Analyzing Full-Duplex Networks Through SPANs, Port Aggregators, and TAPs

Whatever your reason for monitoring the network, you need a reliable way to ensure you are getting an accurate picture of network activity. There are three common techniques to gain access into full-duplex traffic with your monitoring device for analysis: using a switch's SPAN port, a port aggregator, and a...

Tags: Network, Monitoring, Network Instruments, Networking

White papers 2006-03-01

Best Practices in Gigabit Capture

Analysis is a necessary component of network management. Understanding the amounts and types of traffic traversing the network can profoundly affect a business' bottom line. Effective analysis begins with accurate packet captures, which is generally a function of hardware.This is especially true of gigabit traffic. This paper discusses the technical...

Tags: Network, Network Instruments, Best Practice, Analysis, Networking

White papers 2006-01-12

Benefits of WAN-Level Visibility in Monitoring and Maintaining your Network

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol is the common language of network monitoring–it is integrated into most network infrastructure devices today, and many network management tools include the ability to pull and receive SNMP information. SNMP extends network visibility into network-attached devices by providing data collection services useful...

Tags: Network, Benefit, Monitoring, Network Instruments, SNMP, Network Administration, Networking

White papers

AAA East Central Relies on Observer for Advanced Troubleshooting

AAA East Central, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1902, is an advocate for motorists and travelers alike. AAA East Central needed a way to proactively monitor network communication in order to prevent problems from affecting customer service. By deploying Observer Suite and 60 probes, the IT team could easily detect...

Tags: Monitor, Network Instruments, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components

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The final debate: Don't expect Obama and McCain to spar over net neutrality

When John McCain and Barack Obama take the stage tonight for the final debate before the election, I expect to hear plenty about the economy, domestic issues and foreign policy. What I don't expect to hear about is net neutrality, wireless spectrum or broadband. In tech circles,...

Tags: Wired Inc., Broadband, John McCain, Net Neutrality, Barack Obama, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Live Webcast: The Privileged Account Management Debate

There has been a furor of debate following the recent issues with the City of San Francisco and its administrator not divulging administrative passwords. Much of that debate has centered on whether other admins would perform similarly malicious acts following an employment termination. Some reports have this percentage...

Tags: Password, Webcast, Account Management, Admin Password, Quest Software Inc., Sales Channel, Sales Force Management, Sales

Webcasts 2008-10-15

Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2)

In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession,  as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...

Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-14

New Wi-Fi chipsets promise up to 2x throughput of current 802.11n devices

A couple of weeks ago I did a post on the Home Theater blog about Celeno Communications' wireless chip that the company claims can support four different HD streams simultaneously. Now another company has announced its own Wi-Fi technology that promises significant performance improvement over the 802.11n spec. Quantenna's QHS...

Tags: Throughput, IEEE 802.11n, Quantenna, Chipsets, Wi-Fi, Semiconductors, Wireless, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Keeping the dream alive - bootstrap your way out of the death spiral

Jennifer Leggio is on the road. Guest editorial by Ryan Kuder I was very publicly laid off from Yahoo! back in February. It's a gut-wrenching experience for anyone who has gone through it. At the time, my choices were to get a new...

Tags: Dream, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Start-up, Jennifer Leggio, Ryan Kuder, VC, Angels, Networking

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Apple gadget lust for me, but anything for Ed Tech?

Apple gadget lust for me, but anything for Ed Tech?Your Mac Lust borders on Creepy....Geez... that article is just a little bit scary. The kid on the eTrade commercials is in my head..."I seriously underestimated the creepiness factor"... he says this about a clown and I am applying it...

Tags: Corporate communications, Desktops, DVD, Consumer electronics, Notebooks, Apple Inc., video

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Poll: Best personal finance software?

Poll: Best personal finance software?MoneydanceMoneydance - moneydance.comSplashMoneyGreat little app originating for the Palm OS. Has been ported to Windows and iPhone worlds. I can keep track of my expenses on my iPhone and sync it via wireless connection with my desktop. Good tool set and it is a darn sight...

Tags: INTERNET, Financial accounting, personal finance software, personal finance, Moneydance

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Cisco's Chambers sees collaboration fueling productivity gains; Web 2.0 as new enterprise engine?

Cisco CEO John Chambers said Tuesday that there will be an "instant replay" in technology-led productivity gains in the current downturn just like the U.S. saw in the mid-1990s. The difference this time around: In the mid-90s those productivity gains were based on big enterprise resource planning...

Tags: John Chambers, Web, Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Would you pay $1,499 for the Microsoft 'Oahu' Surface table?

Would you pay $1,499 for the Microsoft 'Oahu' Surface table?Off course >: )Yes i would especially if it comes with Windows 7 and has quite a bigger than 22" and Full HD screen.Seriously it is not everyday that Microsoft release an innovative and exciting consumer product.Yes. Heck, I have...

Tags: Keyboards, Games, Food & Beverage, Surface Table, Oahu, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Lead, Melamine, and Backdoored Routers

Lead, Melamine, and Backdoored RoutersBackdoored Routers - A Good IdeaWhat's the problem with backdoored routers? It's a good handy way to make sure that you are not stealing Intellectual Property. If the Chinese government, RIAA, etc. watches every move you make, then probably your moves will all be...

Tags: Routers & switches, Manufacturing, Backdoored Routers, Melamine, router

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Brightcove overhauls UI with Brightcove 3

Today Brightcove is rolling out a new application as part of their web platform for content creators (Update: here's a post by one of the Flex developers who worked on it). The new user interface and features are some of the coolest things that I've seen in the ever popular...

Tags: Brightcove, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-14