Feb 08, 2012
Get Behind the Dashboard
Where did the dashboard originate? According to highly-believable but completely un-verified Internet resources, this mid-1800s invention was originally mounted on horse-drawn carriages and was designed to keep the mud, water, or other debris that flew up from the horses’ hooves off of the passengers. Go without a dashboard and you might be faced with an unpleasant surprise.
Fast forward to our generation and most of us know dashboards as those things in our cars...
Jan 31, 2012
Live simple. What a nice concept. Our lives in the technology industry, however, seem to be all about conquering the complicated rather than pursuing the simple.
Mobility, virtualization, more data, faster links, new applications and increasing vulnerability all require complex and sophisticated systems to manage and protect networks. Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure growth is increasing bandwidth requirements. Appliances are becoming more specialized so more are required. Connecting the...
Jan 23, 2012
Managing 10Gb Networks - Key Enabler for Managing "Big Data"
The need to manage "Big Data" is a major concern for many organizations in 2012, as companies seek to deploy a number of new technologies and approaches to address their business requirements. Some of these projects include:
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments
• Deployments of new applications and new application types
• The emergence of business video, both internally and in...
Nov 17, 2011
We asked, you answered. Next on the list of your biggest application performance problems: Users complain about slow applications.
It happens before you’ve had your first cup of coffee on Monday morning. It happens when you are walking out the door Friday evening. The phone rings, the trouble ticket comes in, the random user drops by to let you know – “It’s slow”. And there it is, the dreaded Layer-8 problem: The bane of our existence and the reason for our...
Nov 11, 2011
The 3rd highest vote in our Twitpoll for the worst application performance problem is “fighting with other IT groups over who is at fault!” Let’s see how Visual Performance Manager can help!
In Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series, there was a technology that could make anything invisible. This technology was based on the “Somebody else’s problem” (SEP) field: once you make it somebody else’s problem, you cease to see it...
Nov 10, 2011
In our Twitpoll, you have voted the second worst application performance problem is that the network is blamed. OK, network guys (generic), I am sure you can cite lots of statistics, instances, and experiences that the network is NOT to be blamed for application performance problem in greater than 80% of the time!
A few years ago, many of our network customers were looking for ways to prove that it is not the network’s fault in order to throw the problems back at the application support...
Nov 03, 2011
We’ve all been asked “What’s typical?” And more often than not the answer isn’t that simple. For example the answer to “What’s it typically take to drive across town?” will usually depend on the time of day. Driving across town at rush hour, afternoon and evening are very different.
Application performance is even worse. When troubleshooting user’s performance problems we often want to compare that user’s performance against the...
Oct 27, 2011
Visual Network Systems organized a Twitpoll over the last few weeks to get a vote on the worst application performance problem you have encountered. The votes are in! We will be posting a series of blogs to address the issues you have voted starting with the worst application performance problem.
50% of you voted that the worst problem is “We don’t know there is an application performance problem.”
Most of the IT customers and prospects I have talked to would like to know,...
Oct 27, 2011
Using a bucket to save yourself in a sinking boat, are you nuts?
If you’re in the middle of the ocean on a boat that’s sinking fast and all you have is a 10 gallon bucket there are two guarantees:
1.You will fill that bucket as fast and as furious as you possibly can to dump out the water
2. You will sink anyway. Its simple math applied to a very serious situation. A bucket that scoops up 10 gallons of water every 5 seconds can’t keep up with water entering through the hole at...
Oct 20, 2011
As businesses rely more on IT to provide data services, one expectation is that the data itself be maintained in a secure manner. In the last decade, IT management reporting solutions have grown rich with detail, providing additional data points by which to ensure not only delivery, but also security.
Depending on the vendor in question, quite often they tout the level to which they report on security events, with security being the primary focus. Many clients believe that sound traffic...
