File for ‘Remote Performance Management’ Category
Managing Branch Office Network Performance in the Cloud Era
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● February 22, 2012
An increase in cloud services means more branch office-based users than ever. According to studies by Gartner and others, 85% – 90% of the average company’s employees now work away from the main corporate office. Those remote workers still need the same high-quality experience of application access and performance as employees at headquarters– especially because [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Flow Analysis: See Detailed Remote Site Network Usage, Without Breaking the Bank!
Posted by: armstrongsean in: ● January 18, 2012
Before business productivity became dependent on the Internet, smaller companies didn’t spend money on flow data analysis. Even enterprise companies didn’t invest in expensive network hardware capable of delivering flow information at the scattered remote offices. It was never a concern until the Internet became a business and personal life line – and pipeline – [...]
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 [...]
Mixing Business and IT: Network Performance Prediction #2
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● December 29, 2011
The countdown to 2012 continues with Network Performance Management Prediction #2 – Mixing Business and IT! Productivity is dependent on a functioning network. If the phones are down, then so is business. Therefore, network performance solutions must provide actionable and easily understood information that can be interpreted by more than network engineers. Of course, there [...]
Bad Bandwidth: Network Performance Prediction #3
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● December 28, 2011
We’re counting down to 2012 with Network Performance Predictions! Inspired by an article by Matt Stevens, AppNeta CTO, we have pulled together three insights that will impact network performance management next year. So, prediction #3 is… Bad Bandwidth. Cheap bandwidth is great and getting cheaper all the time. However, an increase in the bandwidth does [...]
Iperf and PathTest: An Engineer’s Experiment
Posted by: gzammuto in: ● December 27, 2011
Conventional wisdom says that you can only see the true capacity of your network by flooding the pipe. Well, we already put a stop to that thinking (see PathView Cloud). However, we still understand that it is an effective method, if done right. With PathTest, the latest free tool from AppNeta, we can flood your [...]
Top 5 Ways to Impress Your Boss with Remote Network Performance Management!
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● December 16, 2011
Improve Reliability A reliable network means peace of mind and happy end users. The ability to remotely monitor and troubleshoot all business critical applications from one interface will allow you to pinpoint issues before the end users pick up the phone to complain, or submit support tickets. Remotely diagnose and remediate issues without disrupting business [...]
CEO Notes…the Roadtrip
Posted by: melvinjim in: ● December 9, 2011
How far is it from Cleveland to Toledo? Now I know… I had the pleasure of a quick 36 hour visit to Cleveland and Toledo last week. This was my first visit to both cities, despite the fact that my career in technology has taken me to remote corners of the world (most recently South [...]
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