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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● December 5, 2011
Many managed service providers (MSPs) that once viewed cloud computing as a competitive threat are now building their own cloud services portfolios, often with the support of public cloud services or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. Partnering spares MSPs the capital expense of building and maintaining world-class, massively scalable IT infrastructure [...]
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 [...]
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● November 22, 2011
It’s all about the cloud. Organizations of all sizes are developing and implementing new cloud- based services such as hosted email, online data back-up and online financial services. With a new service, comes new network performance challenges. Traditional tools and infrastructure were not designed to manage the demands of the new cloud based services. Investing [...]
Posted by: melvinjim in: ● November 15, 2011
I spent last week with one of our newest, and most exciting partner, VOX Telecom in South Africa. It was an incredible trip! Matt Stevens (AppNeta CTO) and I arrived in Johannesburg (Jo-berg) on Saturday morning after a 15 hour direct flight from NYC (!). We were greeted by the VOX management team, and whisked [...]
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. [...]