Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● November 11, 2011
Credit cards and debit cards– the life lines to our bank accounts. These slates of plastic are also the life lines for retail stores. These days, except when someone walks into a storefront and makes a purchase with cash, chances are that nearly every sale a retailer makes involves the Internet or an online transaction. [...]
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● November 9, 2011
Our AppNeta Team is globetrotting this week! Stretching across the world, we have AppNetians in South Africa for the launch of PathView Cloud with partner Vox Telecom! Additional team members are down in Florida for the HTG Q4 conference. And here in Boston, we are getting almost the same weather as these warmer areas with [...]
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● November 7, 2011
When it comes to online trading, network latency is everything – because delays are more costly in this industry than almost any other. The stock market doesn’t stand still while data is in transit, and the difference between a “fresh” price quote and one that’s a few milliseconds out of date can cost or earn [...]
Posted by: gzammuto in: ● November 2, 2011
The last thing any IT guy wants to hear from a group of sales reps is “Salesforce is down! There’s something wrong with Salesforce!!!” Unfortunately, yours truly was in that position on Monday.The AppNeta sales team is an inside team based outside of Boston, Massachusetts. On Halloween, at roughly 4pm EST, I heard the groans [...]
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● October 19, 2011
It’s been a busy week for the AppNetians! We’ve been bouncing from the N-Able Partner Summit (AZ), to TigerPaw (TX) and now across the pond to IPEXPO in London. Whew! We’re here in support of our partner, Prosperon Networks, a leading UK provider of network and systems monitoring solutions for small/medium and enterprise networks. Reporting [...]
Posted by: gzammuto in: ● October 17, 2011
Raise your hand if an end user has complained of a slow file transfer? You can’t tell, but my hand is the highest. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) transfers have been around since the dawn of the civilization. Not really, but it has been around for the duration of the internet. Point being, the FTP is [...]
Posted by: melvinjim in: ● October 7, 2011
You have to admit that we are really good at dreaming up new terms in the world of technology; and every now and then (ok, more often than not), the first time you hear these new terms it can really make you pause. I can remember the first time I heard the term “virtual appliance” [...]
Posted by: adamtedwards in: ● October 6, 2011
It’s a great time to be a connected consumer. Our favorite audio, video and news products are available from multiple online sources and can be immediately consumed on the nearest connected device. Sometimes the path to a great viewing experience is painless and it just works. At other times achieving a quality viewing experience can [...]
Posted by: melvinjim in: ● September 30, 2011
The Red Sox…Patriots…Bruins…Celtics. Heroes or Goats. Dynasties or cellar dwellers. Our sports teams are like our weather; don’t like how things are going? Just wait, it will change… It is a good thing that I can emotionally climb back into work for relief! This week I escaped the roller coaster of life as a [...]
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 [...]