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Verifying Network Performance SLAs
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● March 8, 2012
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are an interesting concept because unless there is a major disruption it is difficult to guarantee they are being met daily. How do you know your carrier is meeting the requirements you are paying for? And if you are a carrier, how can you prove to your clients that you are [...]
An Engineer’s Search: Who Broke the Network?
Posted by: armstrongsean in: ● March 7, 2012
Even companies that provide network performance management services still have to manage their own networks! So, a few weeks ago when I received notification that we were experiencing extremely low available bandwidth out to the internet, I knew I had to act fast to avoid failure of our critical services- The question was: which tool [...]
How Network Speed & Duplex Settings Can Ruin Your Day (and your application performance)
Posted by: adamtedwards in: ● February 6, 2012
It never fails to amaze me how simple network configuration settings can affect application performance, especially the details that are so susceptible to human error. A global business services provider recently deployed PathView Cloud to monitor network performance between several contact centers. This customer uses VoIP to connect contact centers, and the desktop experience is [...]
Legacy on the Line
Posted by: timferg in: ● February 3, 2012
You won’t hear Tom Brady or Eli Manning speaking publicly about how much this game means to their legacy, but it’s certainly on the mind of everyone not involved with the game this coming Sunday. A win for either of them puts an exclamation mark on their career while a loss has harsh ramifications for [...]
CEO Notes…New Year, New Office, New Company!
Posted by: melvinjim in: ● January 23, 2012
The last four weeks have been a blur! Between wrapping up our third quarter, the holidays, and, oh-yes, moving the company to downtown Boston, it has been a whirlwind. In real estate, they say that location is everything. Well, I am starting to think the same might be true for starting a business. For the [...]
Show Me the Bandwidth
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● January 6, 2012
Security is a well-known risk with cloud applications, but…what about bandwidth? More and more businesses are looking to cut costs and improve end customer experience by moving customer-facing applications, storage/backup solutions, and many other applications to distributed data centers in the cloud. If users experience performance or latency problems due to insufficient network bandwidth, such [...]
4G Wireless Performance: Will You Support Me?
Posted by: adamtedwards in: ● November 29, 2011
Every major wireless carrier is racing to deploy 4G branded mobile data services. Although the mobile data user has been trained to lower his or her performance expectations, the wireless carriers are working hard to change that perception. Can 4G wireless services support real time applications like voice and video for the mobile office of [...]
Remote Network and Application Performance is Critical to MSP Growth
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● October 21, 2011
A Managed Service Provider’s survival is dependant on predictable and high-performing network and applications. End users will not pay for a faulty service. Period. Ensuring that a customer’s network maintains optimal performance is a full time job, especially with the implementation of new IP based services such as VoIP, Video, VDI or cloud services. Having [...]
Network Troubleshooting in Today’s Distributed Data Center
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● September 22, 2011
Today’s distributed data centers, with their layers upon layers of virtual and physical devices and systems, are dauntingly complex and getting more so every day. The accelerating adoption of IP-based services like cloud computing, virtual desktop infrastructure and unified communications is further compounding this complexity, while also massively increasing the scope of the network. All [...]
Top 3 Challenges for Today’s Network Engineers? Performance, Performance, Performance
Posted by: admin in: ● September 12, 2011
The job of a network engineer or network administrator is to solve problems; everything from backups to cables to firewalls to viruses. All of these tasks are related to moving data moving across the network in an optimal and efficient manner so that users can do the work that drives the business. Every network engineer’s [...]
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