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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, 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

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, SOX Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

White papers 2006-04-26

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

Additional Resources

VID (Virtual Instrument Desktop) 1.142 (Windows)

The VID Virtual Instrument Desktop software allows low cost industry standard Modbus or NetCommander hardware to be used in distributed control and monitoring systems. The Software combines a customizable virtual instrument display with a "behind the scenes" event monitoring, logging, alerting and control systems, to provide a full and customizable...

Tags: Software, Desktop, Monitoring, Microsoft Windows, Codemachine, Events System, Tools & Techniques, Plotters, Management, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-11-25

LAMA 1.21 (Mac)

LAMA brings Audio Measurements to a new level. Transfer and Frequency Analysis, perfectly integrated into the Macintosh-Environment. You'll never want to miss your LAMA at your Front-Of-House desk again. LAMA brings Source-Independent Transfer Measurements. They allow you to determine your acoustical conditions as fast as never before. Flexible...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Spectrum

Software downloads 2009-11-22

Wireshark 1.2.4 (Mac)

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the standard in many industries. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998. Hundreds of developers around the world have contributed to it, and it is still under active development. Read/write many different aWireshark is the world's...

Tags: Radcom Ltd., Apple Macintosh, Network, Visual Networks Inc., Industry, Analysis, Wireshark, Wireshark Development, Networking, Linux, WANs, Network Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-16

Wireshark 1.2.4 (Windows)

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the standard in many industries. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998. Hundreds of developers around the world have contributed to it, and it is still under active development. Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump...

Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows, Wireshark, WANs, Networking, LANs, Network Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-16

PolarCOM 1.0 (Mac)

PolarCOM is an integrated NMEA 0183 marine navigation instrument data bridge and multipurpose data display. Available for Apple Mac OS X and Windows systems, it combines background server operation with high quality easy to read and fully customizable digital instrument views. PolarCOM is a fully-featured standalone application, as well as...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Polar Navy, PolarCOM, Apple Mac OS X, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Apple Mac OS, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-23

2010 Chevrolet Camaro

Photo gallery:2010 Chevrolet Camaro LT Ford Mustang, Dodge Challenger, and now the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro: this holy trinity of retro muscle cars is now complete. Each car, being iconic in its own way, will have its own set of fanatical adherents regardless of how well it drives or what tech...

Tags: Chevrolet Camaro, OnStar, Chevrolet

Product reviews 2009-08-18

Don't underestimate the power of the electrical power plug in the smart grid

Lots of attention is paid to the role of wireless communications devices in the smart grid and smart energy systems build-out, but the dark horse of this movement could be technology that uses the electrical wires living inside your walls to communicate relevant usage metrics. That's the...

Tags: HomePlug Powerline Alliance, Grid, Powerline, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-29

SunSpec hopes to provide standard IT management platform for solar technology

A new consortium called the SunSpec Alliance is hoping to drum up a standard way for the way that instruments of all types such as components and monitoring devices communicate with each other on a solar plant site. The group is being driven by 10 founding members, including solar...

Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Monitoring, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Network Serial Port Kit 5.6.2 (Windows)

You can connect data collection serial devices: bar code scanners, modems, sensors, gages, RF equipment, telephone PBX systems, laboratory or industrial instruments, and so on - to the serial ports of your computer to deliver that data anywhere over any TCP/IP based network. Program creates up to 254 virtual serial...

Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows, Serial Port, Computer, FabulaTech, Productivity, Scanners, Modems, Networking, Hardware, Peripherals, Components

Software downloads 2009-07-05

Futurist pinpoints world's top ten long-term challenges

With the growth of unpredictability comes forecasts that are harder to believe. But good leaders plan for a wide range of scenarios that are based on trends we see today. In his recent commencement address to the 2009 graduating class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Tory, NY,...

Tags: Schwartz, Leadership, Transportation, Manufacturing, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-21

Virtual Instruments launches VirtualWisdom

Mark Urdahl, CEO, and Len Rosenthal, VP Marketing, of Virtual Instruments stopped by to let me know about VirtualWisdom, a product the company launched while at EMCword. Their product is designed to help organizations moving to a virtualized environment gain insight into and manage their virtual storage infrastructure. ...

Tags: Performance, VMware Inc., VirtualWisdom VirtualWisdom, VMware Performance Bottleneck, Virtualization, Performance Management, Storage, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-05

News to know: Microsoft; Facebook; Acer; WiFi health scare

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft delivers SQL Server 2008 SP1 Adrian...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Health Care, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Corp., Acer Inc., TechMeme, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals

Blog posts 2009-04-09

Are we responsible for content filtering at home?

Are we responsible for content filtering at home?Why?Sorry guys, but sending kids home with school-issued laptops is just *ASKING* for trouble. Seriously, do you guys not have enough headaches? Between supporting software issues (patches, viruses, and updates w/o losing kids' work), filtering internet, kids doing anything-but-work on them, and replacing...

Tags: Content management, content filtering, OpenDNS

Discussion threads 2009-03-19

Don’t Bet On The Calculator. Bet On The Thinker.

Sure, Goldman Sachs thinks it knows best or it wouldn’t have created its own digital system for analyzing financial risks it faces, aka its SecDB database and security pricing system. But that is not what has protected it from making the kind...

Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Marketing, Pricing, Strategy, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-02-11

MIDs haven't made it, but Intel is undaunted

Stop me if you've heard this one before. . . BusinessWeek reports that Intel is readying a big push for a new class of handhelds known as MIDs, or Mobile Internet Devices. Intel has been talking up MIDs--devices that sit awkwardly between a smartphone and a netbook--for...

Tags: Mobile, Smart Phone, Intel Corp., MID, Moblin, Smart Phones, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Cellular Phones, WiMAX, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-01-26