File for ‘Web Performance’ Category
HTML5 Is Ready For Prime Time – And So Are We!
Posted by: stevensmatt in: ● February 8, 2012
There is a lot of good material in the blog-o-sphere about HTML5 vs. Flash and the impending doom of the latter. I’m here to say that HTML5, while still a work in progress, is absolutely ready for prime time and if anyone says you have to wait for it to be ready, they’re either ill-informed or [...]
Top 5 Things You Must Have in Your Network Performance Management Tool
Posted by: admin in: ● February 2, 2012
There are quite a few network performance management tools available today from Open Source to enterprise mainstays. But which one is right for your business? What tools give you the features and value you need to assure network performance and minimize downtime, frustration and finger-pointing? The outcome of business initiatives depends directly on a tool [...]
Super Bowl XLVI…The Rematch
Posted by: timferg in: ● January 27, 2012
It’s a rematch four years in the making. On Sunday, Feb. 5, the AFC champion New England Patriots face the NFC champion New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI (46) in Indianapolis, and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will be looking to avenge his team’s loss at the hands of Eli Manning and his Giants that [...]
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 [...]
Network Performance Management is the Key to “Happy Holidays” for Retailers
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. [...]
Salesforce.com vs.The Network Guy
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 [...]
Streaming Media at the Workplace: Your Music Hurts My Cloud
Posted by: bmazzotta in: ● October 31, 2011
For organizations that are monitoring and maintaining a large network, bandwidth consumption can cause major issues. Knowing who is using all the bandwidth in the company is particularly helpful when troubleshooting performance issues and all too common complaints that “the network is slow!” Insight into what external web sites employees are visiting, and whether or [...]
Steve Jobs…The Third Act
Posted by: melvinjim in: ● October 12, 2011
There has been so much written about Steve Jobs recently that I really hesitated to be yet one more voice. I never met Steve but, like so many others, have seen the impact that his contributions have had on computing and communicating around the globe. Over the past few weeks, I have thought a lot [...]
Guest Blog: QoS, Wherefore Art Thou
Posted by: admin in: ● October 3, 2011
By Cliff Chapman, Application Delivery Architect, LinkStatus Was Shakespeare’s Rosalind in a Telco’s QoS presentation when she enquired “Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?” She was hooked. QoS would solve all her Application performance problems. “I’ll just need Expedited Forwarding for voice and video, something middling for Thin Client and I’ll [...]
CEO Notes: Life as a Boston Sports Fan is a Roller Coaster…
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 [...]
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