TweetIt has been a while since I’ve posted to the Daily Network Monitor, it’s been a little hectic as the team here at Ipswitch have been busy developing and releasing a number of new products over the past 5 months. Most recently, in fact, we released v12.3 of WhatsUp Gold on October 1st (check it out at www.whatsupgold.com). Among [...]
TweetTalk about VoIP for the masses, Costco announced yesterday that the Syspine Digital Operator from Quanta Computer wil be available from Costco.com immediately. Focused on small businesses of under 50 employees, the Syspine Digital Operator A50 is a single-solution device that will connect up to eight standard telephone lines. It features a high-end, server-grade, fan-less [...]
TweetHere is a useful list of tips that network administrators can leverage in their everyday travails. 1. Assume nothing. Where does the real fault lie? Is it really the network or something else? Go to #10… 2. Is IP addressing correct? Proper subnetting and VLANs? 3. Conduct a visual inspection of the equipment. 4. Validate [...]
TweetThere has been a lot of buzz around WAN optimization over the past few months, with numerous mentions of what WAN optimization is and what it brings to the table. On the surface, it is certainly a cool technology, but it is a technology that requires some additional thought before implementing. It is certainly another [...]
TweetIpswitch has been working hard on a new release of their network monitoring software and it is finally here. So without any further delay, let me highlight a few of the 20 new features of Whats Up Gold v12.0 that bring 360o visibility, actionable intelligence and complete control to network managers. Split Second Graphs – bring [...]
TweetThe SaaS web-based application delivery model provides corporations with hosted set of business centric applications without a need to purchase, maintain or customize the application to fit their unique needs. Many organizations have adopted this model for sales, procurement, CRM and human resources applications for example. Unlike the traditional software acquisition model, where a corporation [...]
TweetThe Barcelona show is in full swing, unfortunately we didn’t have much time to attend the keynotes , but we did get to discuss networking management and monitoring with a great number of attendees and one thing stood out very clearly. How much enterprise networking professionals are concerned with bandwidth management. Not just looking at the [...]
TweetHave now been in sunny Barcelona for a few days now. Cisco networkers show has been very interesting from several perspectives. First, the number of people attending. The show was sold out with over 6,000 attendees from all over Europe. Second, was the level of interest in network monitoring. Many people that we talked to [...]
TweetWe recently wrote an entry on Blogger predicts the death of death that highlighted the death of IT. Au contraire, my friends, IT is a strategic asset and in most cases a competitive differentiator, and there are plenty of examples from the Fortune 500 all the way down to small businesses. Within the context of IT, it all [...]
TweetI will be attending the Cisco Networkers show in Barcelona and will be blogging from over there next week. Should have some interesting insights and news to share from the show floor. If any of our loyal readers are attending, please stop by our booth (E44). Look forward to meeting our loyal readers and customers.